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Caption: girl eating the Togolese staple food "pâte", Credit: Carla Seidl
Dessert? Some people have never even heard of it. This piece examines the cultural relativity of this sweet, after-meal food practice by contrastin...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
Caption: Back stage with the Brazen Belles
This piece was created for WCAI's Creative Life Series. Producer Sara Robberson takes us to the world of sequence and bras, humor and strip tease –...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
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Our Spring 2012 Edition features five short stories specially adapted to audio. Unique sound design illuminates the best contemporary short fictio...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Karaba
Thomas Burns discusses film, photography, teaching, and life in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 36:01
Caption: Hannah Williams
Songwriter Hannah Williams talks about her approach to writing songs for the Seattle Rock Orchestra inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loath...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jim Bartow's "An American Poets Song Book" 1975, Credit: Blues Blood
Jim Bartow a man with a stunning voice, a powerful inflection, a precise execution and almost totally unknown.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 08:49
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We remember the legacy of the Tevatron, the particle collider that was shut down in September of 2011.

Bought by KUT and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mary Quant, as styled by Vidal Sassoon
In this evergreen single-voice portrait, renowned hair designer Vidal Sassoon discusses one of his greatest artistic inspirations with charm and in...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Should we resolve inconsistent beliefs... or let them be?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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And the programming, and the news, and anything else on the air.

  • Added: May 11, 2010
  • Length: 01:51
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In Maine, there are two organized naturist, or nudist clubs: the Dirigo Naturist Association and the Maine Coast Solar Bares.

Bought by WMPG and WORLDcompass.org


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 2
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City High junior A Greene asks, "What would you be like if you were the opposite sex?" and finds the answers surprising.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:56

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 56:25
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Mick Dodge, Barefoot Sensei, Credit: Jeremy Richards
Mick Dodge has been going barefoot--all the time, everywhere he goes--for almost 25 years. He believes that our feet connect us to nature. KUOW's J...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2009
  • Length: 09:29
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Hosted by area celebrity, Liz Woodworth. Features "The Lucerne" directed by Tom Mitchell, written by Ric Gillman. A radio drama about a Lake Superi...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2009
  • Length: 25:11
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The Camp's Neo Economist, Jim Smith, revisits the virtual campfire with insights about the economic crisis we face as he covers topics that challen...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:01
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When conductor Myung-Whun Chung teaches conducting students how to approach and interpret French music, his lesson consists of three words: "live i...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: :27
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Some interesting insights on product devlopment from an unusual source

  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 02:32
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A young man wishes he were more cosmopolitan

Bought by WXLV-FM and KOOP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
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A vox pop about what happens after death

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Zoe interviews indie rock band This Providence about music, Christianity, touring, and more...

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of three outdoor swimming pools, known as 'lidos' in London.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 19:04
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Jason Sheehan believes barbecue unites us, comforts us and is the only thing he can?t get enough of.

Bought by WEZU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4