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ANYONE CAN WHISTLE: A Popular Myth
From: H. William Stine
Series: TURNTABLE FOR ONE
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Remember the old question, Would you rather be invisible or able to fly? My answer always was: who cares? All I've wanted since I was a kid was to ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 3: The Buck Stops Here
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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With the advent of the Inkjet printer, counterfeiting money became as simple as a trip to Staples. By the year 2000, there were 72 million of these...

Bought by XRAY.fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 4
Going Undercover for the Arctic 30
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: Photographer Dima Sharomov, Credit: Greenpeace
Dima Sharomov is Russian, a photographer and friends with many of the 'Arctic 30'. After for 100 days in prison,they were to be transferred to St P...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
140416 My Musical Debut on Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:39
Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham #1412 PODCAST/No Music
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock PODCASTS
Caption: Salvation Town by Jonny Two Bags, Credit: Official Album Cover
Jonny 2 Bags Wickersham plays guitar with legendary Southern California punk rock band, Social Distortion, and like most of this entwined music sce...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:58
The Insomnia-Junk Food Connection
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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I don't suppose it would surprise anyone to find out the Cultural Curmudgeon is an insomniac. When a person takes on the troubles of the world, the...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
Episode 47: Ocean Clark – Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Ocean Clark (right), Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby and Martini podcast from Union, NJ, at the studio of New York City-based artist, Ocean Clark, whose original paintings and prints of pop cult...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2014
  • Length: 30:25
Critters, Blobs and Swan Dives
From: University of Montana Journalism
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Producer Corin Cates-Carney's story does the unexpected, connecting the invisible line from critter to kid to ... blob. It ends up being a sweet, s...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 09:07
  • Purchases: 3
It's More than a "Thing"
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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Since he was three years old, Obasi Onuoha has been in love with computers. really. To him, they're way more than just machines....

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
The Beat: Mike Forbes - "February"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 245
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress/author Annabelle Gurwitch, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Actress author ANNABELLE GURWITCH, shoe designer D'WAYNE EDWARDS, and music by LOVE GIGANTIC.

Bought by KSRQ, Rhythm & News Service, KUNV, 90.5 WESA, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 245 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress/author Annabelle Gurwitch, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Actress author ANNABELLE GURWITCH, shoe designer D'WAYNE EDWARDS, and music by LOVE GIGANTIC.

Bought by WCPN, KUT, KUOW, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 5
140322 Payday! All I Can Eat of Fund Drive Food
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:19
  • Purchases: 1
2014-04-05 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
From: Bill Childs
Series: Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
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With the niece and nephews from Portland, plus new music from Zee Avi, world premiere music from Danny Weinkauf, and so much more!

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WSLR


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 54:19
  • Purchases: 2
140329 The Twitch Dance plus Tango + Mambo = Mango and the Worst Recording in the Library
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from the 1950s to 70s that fits just between rock and roll and rhythm and blues. From musicians you've never heard of, music you wished you ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:40
Ben Kaufmann
From: Brian Bahouth
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Ben Kaufmann, bass player and singer for the Yonder Mountain String Band, talks about his roots and the band’s latest EP, YMSB EP 13. A funky mix ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 31:36
Seton Hall Women's WNIT Recap
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
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John Fanta recaps Seton Hall Women's Basketball WNIT game with Rutgers.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
Twitter Fatigue
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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Twitter is hemorrhaging self-aggrandizement and hucksterism.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 244 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actor Fred Armisen, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire
Actor/comedian FRED ARMISEN, author MERRILL MARKOE, and music by SALLIE FORD.

Bought by WCPN, KUT, KUOW, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 244
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actor Fred Armisen, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire
Actor/comedian FRED ARMISEN, author MERRILL MARKOE, and music by SALLIE FORD.

Bought by KSRQ, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, and KUNV


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
BOTTOMS UP, FACE DOWN: Drinking Again
From: H. William Stine
Series: TURNTABLE FOR ONE
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Want to play a game? Every time I play a song, you take a drink. Wait, bad idea. You won't last the whole hour. Ok, how about this instead? Every t...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
As I Lay Reading
From: David Green
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What is librarian Emily's biggest fear? Not being able to finish all the books she is in the middle of.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
2014-03-29 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
From: Bill Childs
Series: Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
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Tons of Meltdown previews, plus new music from Koo Koo Kanga Roo, Danimal, Lee Alexander, Andres Salguero, and Stacey Peasley!

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 53:48
A Conversation with Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2011 NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz. [34:48]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 34:49
  • Purchases: 1
Reverend Horton Heat
From: Brian Bahouth
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Jim Heath, a.k.a. the Reverend Horton Heat, and I chat about his latest LP, REV. This rocking mix of words and music produced for KVMR radio …

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 14:33

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