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Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
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Today we're talking about a mural, a mural that brings urban renewal through hope, positive messaging, and education and community outreach. It's a...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Mishy Harman talks to Liron Lavi Turkenich, a type and graphic designer from Haifa, who invented a hybrid Hebrew-Arabic script.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:01
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When Wendy Hellowell’s son Oliver was born, he was diagnosed with Down syndrome. She realized the two of them would face enormous challenges. But t...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Street Art Expo Artist, Credit: Tom Howell
Tom talks to street artist at the 2018 Street Art Expo in New York City.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2018
  • Length: 31:45
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A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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After almost a decade making art in New York City, Stephanie Housley craved being closer to nature, her source of inspiration. So she moved to Bond...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode of Art beat we talk to the director of the Frozen River Film Festival Crystal Hegge. She tells about some of the films being played...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 16:08
Caption: Garden at Newmours Estate., Credit: Photo by Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints will explore Wilmington, Delaware and the Brandywine Valley’s rich American history and vibrant arts and cultural scene with its E...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:55
Caption: Statues by Peter Wolf Toth, Credit: Charles McGuigan
For most of his adult life Peter Wolf Toth has been on a mission to honor the native American tribes of Virginia. Over the decades he has carved ma...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 26:08
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:08
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 25:45
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:15

  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 24:46
Caption: Lester Blackiston
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 26:09
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven’t resurfaced in the marke...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 21:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The PEMcast, Credit: Chip Van Dyke
The hidden legacy of Nathaniel Gould, cabinetmaker.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
Caption: Basic step of the Lindy Hop, on Capitol Hill's sidewalk, Credit:  Steve Bernacki on Flickr
We all have our secret talents— like that poem you memorized in high school, or your ability to burp the alphabet. This podcast explores three extr...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 26:34
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The Minnesota Hooved Animal Rescue Foundation may have one of the most unique benefactors around. KFAI producer Susan Budig introduces us to Roswel...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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In 2011, two rap groups in northern Minnesota decided to join forces: 100 Souls from Red Lake, and NPC3 from Bemidji. Together they’re known as Rez...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hungarian-born Blues musician Little G Weevil., Credit: Tanner Latham
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 3
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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features spoken-word poet and hip-...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:45
Caption: The members of Catfish Courtesy, circa 2002.
Mindless Chanting is a documentary tracing the DIY history of an obscure and unheard band called Catfish Courtesy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 36:04
Caption: Cross Keys Ruritan Hall, Harrisonburg, VA, Credit: Sarah Cumming
Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sac...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 4