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Tony Bennett - I will do this for the rest of my life
From: Sedge Thomson
Caption: Tony Bennett and Sedge Thomson on West Coast Live, Freight and Salvage venue, Berkeley, CA Nov 14, 1998
Tony Bennett was one of the greats, and his relaxed modesty gives us insight to the values he held to keep singing, despite "the bobbing and weavin...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 22:00
S5 EP6: Act Like a Surgeon
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 40:08
Art
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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From the author of "God of Carnage," a Tony Award-winner for Best Play.

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 24
Clarion Collection
From: New Letters on the Air
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The NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Classics Series begins with a look back at our 2013 Clarion Award-winning year for Best Radio Talk/Interview Program fro...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Creative Brains
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Creative Brains, Credit: Seth Shostak
Many animals are industrious and clever, but humans are unique in their creative and inventive impulses. Composer Anthony Brandt and neuroscientist...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Tent Show Radio TSR18-09 Andrew Bird - Roma Di Luna
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Broadcasting music, stories and happiness wrapped in canvas since 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour variety series showcasing national and...

Bought by WTIP, KFCF FM, KMSU, WDSE, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 7
Dang Makes A Film!
From: Rene Dongo
Caption: Shooting the first scenes on Long Wharf, near the Boston Aquarium.
Dang Nguyen, an aspiring filmmaker, revisits friends in his old college town of Boston to shoot a personal video project that's been on hold for 4 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 16:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Cops of Pop
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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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
Attention by Holly Walter Kerby
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Steven Boyer
In Holly Walter Kerby’s Attention, Amber (Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger) is bummed out that her boyfriend has visited his family without her. Sh...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 17:56
Arts Review ~ Steve Downing arts essay
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Arts Review
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Steve Downing shares his essay on the difficulty of supporting early artists whose talents may not be ready for public consumption.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 07:50
Poet Dean Young
From: New Letters on the Air
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As a poet, teacher, and heart transplant recipient, Dean Young realizes that mankind's greatest achievements are the intangible ones. Young, the a...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Feminism and Horror Films
From: Bitch Media
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Just in time for Halloween, we look at gender issues in horror films. This essay takes a feminist angle on underrated horror heroines, from Candyma...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 21:26
Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Real Heroes comic book from 1942
How do you show what the inside of an atom looks like? Or how a scientist feels in the moment of discovery? We decided to approach the human storie...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
Dearly Departed, Two Comedies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Peter Sagal
Two short plays. In MILTON BRADLEY by "Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me" host Peter Sagal, a flummoxed Rabbi has to eulogize a mother whose son has only te...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUER, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2012
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Aesthetic Bliss with Edna O'Brien and Lila Azam Zanganeh
From: Open Source
Caption: Edna O'Brien
We're succumbing to the enchantments of prose this hour, first with Edna O'Brien, that "scandalous woman" in the James Joyce and Samuel Beckett fam...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 2/12/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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NEARLY WEIGHTLESS...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of The Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Geoff Marslett
Austin based filmmaker Geoff Marslett talks about his journey and vision as an artist.

  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 10:20
"Juno": Interview with screenwriter Diablo Cody and star Ellen Page by "Filmspotting" co-host, Adam Kempenaar
From: WBEZ
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Interview with the screenwriter and star of the new indie-flick darling, "Juno"

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
Speculations: Real Estate meets String Theory
From: Nathanael Johnson
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The conceptual art of Jonathan Keats

  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:38