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Caption: 'Coat Of Arms Held By A Woman And A Greyhound', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This 5 minute program highlights through the spoken word renaissance fables that were written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'St. John The Baptist', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This program is 5 minutes in length, and is part of the 76 episode series on PRX that explores renaissance fables.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Venus And Mars', Credit: Botticelli
This program is a spoken word rendition of renaissance fables with appropriate music. It is 5 minutes in length.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'St, Maurus Of Glanfeuil Walking On Water Saves St, Placidius From Drowning', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This program is 5 minutes in length, and explores some of the timeless renaissance fables of Bernadino Baldi...one of the four authors explored in ...

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of Clarissa Strozzi', Credit: Titian
This 5 minute spoken word program highlights some of the renaissance fables of the prolific Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man', Credit: Luca Signorelli
The apologues or fables of Leon Battista Alberti are numerous and entertaining. This program, for 5 minutes, explores one of the greatest authors o...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man With A Medal Of Cosmo The Elder', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program is a spoken word presentation of renaissance fables written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Allegory On Gluttony And Lust', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program utilizes the spoken word embedded in renaissance music to explore more of the fables of Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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After he died, John Glanton's photo negatives were forgotten. But then a relative unearthed those images from a trash bag in a garage. The result: ...

Bought by KBEM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wanda Gag and her cat, Snoopy., Credit: Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries
Decades before "Cat in the Hat," another children’s book surprised readers with its inventiveness. "Millions of Cats," by Minnesota's Wanda Gag, co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 2
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In the premiere episode of the new audio drama Flyest Fables, we meet Antoine, a young boy bullied in school, who finds a magical book that transpo...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 22:26
  • Purchases: 3
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 26:34
Caption: Michelangelo's David
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet - how can one man be so many things? And what did he keep in his basement?

Bought by KVSC and WABE


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Oliver Beer, Credit: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropec
British artist Oliver Beer explores the acoustical character of Kilic Ali Pasa Hamam, a historical Turkish bath, with a small group of local young ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:58

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Art Beat, we learn how theatre and history collide in Theatre du Mississippi's Production of Angels in the Trees: Rockwell Kent ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Queer identity, sex dolls, performance art, love.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:55
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter. His paintings aren't controversial, but his medium is.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
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A new chapter in the Godfather will be published later this year. The author speaks with us about the experience, what's in store for the Corleone...

Bought by WJCT and WABE


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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HERE COME THE HERDS OF BILLY GOATS...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Local composer Cheryl Leonard recording the sound of Antarctica in 2009
When we imagine Antarctica, we often think of an empty place: big expanses of ice, almost no other people on the entire continent. It might even se...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
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The man behind the I Heart NY logo talks art and design!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 1