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The Beat: Linda Back-McKay "On the Meaning Of"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing director. She is widely published. Linda Back McKay is also a long time volunteer and ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
The Beat: Renee Loehr "Transition"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Renee Loehr is a part-time freelance writer, a mother of three, and grandmother of eight, who lives in Moorhead. She's published numerous poems, es...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
PPW - Alabama: Black Birds Singing
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 4
"Where Ya' From?"
From: Dominick Boyle
Caption: Home
Asking people where they're from is something we do all the time. It's usually one of the first questions we ask someone, right after their name. B...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:42
NEA Jazz Moments with KEITH JARRETT
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Keith Jarrett. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 15
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Harold and Butch
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Harold and his pal, Butch, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Harold Crocker and his friend, Butch can't live without each other. One of them is a ventriloquist.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 1
18: Soundwalk
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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In 5 different countries there are audio tours available, which take you to places you don't want to go while getting you lost. And that's the point.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:55
My Mother
From: Fusion Youth Radio
Series: FYR Season 2
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Staff Reporter Kenya, speaks about the significant role her mother has had on her life.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Robert Jevne : "Sometimes romance can be heated up on the stove in only a few minutes."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
209: Canals
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Göta Canal, Credit: Insightguides.com
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "Limoncello"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:50
Acoustic Stories: Mary Finch - Christmas Tree
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "After Hearing About the Rain"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Retired educator, Lorie Yourd, shares her insightful, reflective poem "After Hearing About the Rain."

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
The Harmonica
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Akins High School youth producers wanted to learn about New Orleans blues from their geography teacher and blues harmonica player Greg Izor. But w...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
My Trip to Third Coast
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Third Coast was a blast!

  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:22
Folktale of Gratitude
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Gratitude, Credit: Julia Meek
A world of blessings and thankfulness in this episode of gratitude--do hope you can spend an hour with us, just being grateful.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Fields of Remembrance
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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To honor the young men who sacrificed their lives in the D-Day invasion, Brigadier General Casey Brower takes young cadets on tours of the American...

Bought by WJCT, Indie3 Radio, KVSC, Radio Catskill, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 17
A final resting place for furry friends
From: KALW
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Tiki, Hula Girl, Tagalong, Smokey, Bambi and Blondie, Dumbo, Koko, Pudin Dandridge, and Hollywood are some of the names inscribed across the grave ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
YMP Fathers in Focus
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by conorwithonen, Flickr
Fathers in Focus is a special collaborative show that delivers the stories of youth experiencing homelessness and their experiences with their fath...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:07
Memorable Goodbyes
From: Shizue Roche Adachi
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What makes a goodbye linger in your memory...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:06
Lost Landmarks: Time traveling in San Francisco's Tenderloin district
From: KALW
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The Uptown Tenderloin Historic District is trying to preserve its history with funding from SF Grants for the Arts and the city’s Neighborhood Arts...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 08:51