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The best new music on the planet. This week; Cambodian rock n roll, wild Italian accordions, Indian fusion, rap from Burkina Faso and a wonderful n...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 54:02
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In this peppy, sweet, illuminating vox pop, CHS Radio reporters pose the question, "Why did you come to school today?"

Bought by WTIP, KBRP Community Radio, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

Bought by KUT, Rhythm & News Service, WNJR, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
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Holidays Moonwalk is the new release by Golden Boy (Fospassin) the ultimate songwriter for the 21st century.Are you ready for holidays?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:52
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Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Keith takes a bow with his sound effects behind him, Credit: Katy Sewall
Tom Keith, long time sound effects man for A Prairie Home Companion, could have worked during the Golden Age of Radio. He preferred to create sound...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: where babies come from, Credit: janwillemsen
Musical Rarities, Oddities and Classics, tightly packaged in 4 minute weekly episodes. This week with Steppenwolf, Connie Francis, Elvis and Lady G...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 03:48
Caption: Bug Off!, Credit: Seth Shostak
Humans have been battling viruses and bacteria since the beginning of time; stories from the frontier of epidemiology.

Bought by WVTF, KSKQ, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: umm...it's a black cat, Credit: tdesignr
Musical oddities, rarities and classics, this week, some Halloween mumbo jumbo with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Warren Zevon and Michael Jackson.

Bought by WLPR , WLPR , and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 3
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What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
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Brian recounts the first summer in Alaska working the slime lines of a cannery and the time the Captain was drunk, the crew quit, and the ship's an...

Bought by KUT and KRUA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Holiday Traditions abound on this segment from Arctic Entries. David Onofrychuck tells us how his family celebrated Christmas.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Page Wilson
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:46
Caption: Tai Shan, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Tai Shan discusses her song inspired by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Tommy Chong talks about his music career and the secret to comedy

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:33
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 54:53
Caption: Pulitzer-Prize winning Author Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

Bought by WNJR and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bridget Quigg, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Bridget Quigg talks about her approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Comedian/Musician/Artist... Nicky Shane joins us. He's in the Guinness Book of World Records...for fastest harmonica player

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:57
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You butter believe I ain't muffin around this morning!

  • Added: Oct 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:52:40
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FWI: ALL music is "DANCE" music...just sayin'.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 01:55:07
Caption: U.S.S. Canopus
This segment is about the Naval Ground Battalion that was created using sailors from the U.S.S. Canopus. The Imperial Japanese had started to land ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
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The Personality of a Baseball Brand

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:04
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Comedian/Author Karen Bergreen tells us about Moms killing Moms and has words for Nancy Grace.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:21