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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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In this second episode of our series on the career, legacy, aspirations and regrets of Whit Stillman, we hear from the filmmaker — as well as actor...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:44
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A postcard from an art space, which has taken over an old big box store.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The powerhouse vocals of Elle King.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy nominated vocalist and songwriter Elle King plus Mexo-Americana...

Bought by KUAR, WVIK, Delmarva Public Media, WEJP-LP 107.1, KTRL and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 37
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David Rice has always lived in Texas. Born in 1964 in Weslaco, he now divides his time between Austin and the Rio Grande Valley. South Texas and hi...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 06:52
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Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 31:58
Caption: Agnes Chavez
We talk with artist and educator Agnes Chavez, who explores the interrelationship between art, science, technology and nature as a process and tool...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Galactic
The members of the band Galactic have been groove-makers in New Orleans and beyond for more than 25 years, embracing R&B, hip hop, jazz, rap, rock,...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
Caption: Jello Lake, Credit: Erin Sullivan
Join us as we explore the great outdoors while indoors with photographer Erin Sullivan of Erin Outdoors.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
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The Minnesota Indian Womens’ Resource Center recently teamed up with Hennepin County Library to host an Indigenous Comic Book Workshop in Minneapol...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, KMSU, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KQAL and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Steve Martin accepting 2018 IBMA Bluegrass Boradcaster of the Year Award
Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass with Billy Strings

  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 20:33
Caption: Ciaran Hinds
Game of Throne's Ciaran Hinds stars in TWO CROWS APART. A couple braces themselves for unwanted houseguests, political correctness, and a murder of...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 22:11
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Designer Manuel Cuevas crafted iconic outfits for Gram Parsons, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. At StoryCorps, he tells his daughter Morelia about h...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WOUB, WGUC/ WVXU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
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There are plenty of good films out there, but I have to confess that the dominance of mediocre Hollywood pablum sometimes challenges my faith in ci...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:55
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It seems that the more I love a film, the harder it is to describe exactly why. I think that’s because the best films reach a place that is deeper ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:56
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Aquarius, a new film by Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, wants to make us comfortable before we enter its main story. In a prologue...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: Aquarius
Many would agree that 2016 was a terrible year in general, and I don’t need to explain why. It is strange to have to admit, then, that it was a gre...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:48
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There’s a movie out called Jackie, with Natalie Portman playing Jackie Kennedy, and I kind of avoided it for awhile because I’m wary of films that ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
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Two records from 1983 achieved minor novelty fame, and then faded away, only to emerge 20 years later as the originators of a curious genre of pop ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 44:02
Caption: Virginia sits on the floor to interview Tom Perrotta at Harvard Book Store., Credit: Sara Plourde
Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:45
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Satirist Christopher Buckley, author of "Thank You For Smoking", "The White House Mess", and "The Relic Master", takes us into his writing process.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Virginia Prescott chats with Alexander McCall Smith backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, Credit: Sara Plourde
The prolific author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series talks about his writing process.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
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Bang On a Can pianist Vicky Chow talks about her new releases; Composer-singer Danielle Eva Schwob and harpist Ashley Jackson discuss the upcoming ...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:21:31
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I ask artist Judith Bernstein about the role of the mother in her provocative, neon paintings on the opening night of her show, Birth of the Univer...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
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Founder and Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, John Wilson, talks egos, trends, and floating green bagels.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 24:27