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Sugar Loaf Theatre
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Seamus Sinclair joins us to talk about the new Sugar Loaf Theatre. Original air date: 12/06/22

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 26:44
REVELRY meets REVERENCE at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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Beyond the effigy that gives Burning Man its name, there’s another wooden structure: The Temple. Arguably, it’s the spiritual center of the event.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 39:07
PARTY meets PRAYER at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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Burning Man is pagan at its core with a hell-ish aesthetic. So why do so many devout Christians attend? And what do they do there?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 20:34
DESERT meets DEFAULT at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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It looks like an old phone on a dusty table. Curious folks at Burning Man pick up the receiver. What awaits on the other end is totally unexpected.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 24:40
WILL meets WAY at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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Burning Man is guided by "10 Principles." One is radical inclusion. What does that mean for people with disabilities?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 19:04
Episode 29: The Dancer
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 23:02
Episode 26: The Kinseys
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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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
The Last Laugh
From: Israel Story
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Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 31:11
Episode 16: Everything Floats
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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We visit a place where the “black sheep” of the Guggenheim family went to be free.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 22:27
Episode 10: Blue
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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The story of a color marked by effort and desire.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 21:30
NEA Jazz Moments with Guitarist, Pat Metheny (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Guitar genius and NEA Jazz Master Pat Metheny talks about Song X with Ornette Coleman, his first album, Bright Size Life, and guitar improvisation.

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


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 9
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Fly Fishing Show Part 2
From: Tom Howell
Series: The 2018 Fly Fishing Show
Caption: CD Clarke, Credit: Tom Howell
In the second part of the two part series on Fly Fishing, Tom continues his conversations at the Fly Fishing Show. He talks to expert fly tier Rob...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:03:02
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Guitarist, Pat Metheny
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Metheny grew up in a musical family, starting on trumpet at the age of eight and switching to guitar a few years later. By age 15 he was mentored b...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 1: The Run
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about wha...

Bought by American Voices and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 2
Time Travellers
From: Arlie Adlington
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This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:02
The Brigsby Bear Radio Special
From: Joyride Media
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Stars and filmmakers talk about bringing Brigsby Bear to life on screen.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Freeman Vines: The Hanging Tree Guitar
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:15
Footsteps #2 Winter NYC
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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The sounds of: Walking on packed snow, on a city sidewalk in January 2017. Cold: 19 degrees: Prospect Ave & Terrace PL: Brooklyn, NY. Early evening...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: :48
Footsteps #1 Late Summer
From: JoAnne Maffia
Series: ReFoundSound an audio blog
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The sounds of: walking on sand, crushed shells and soil in late summer, 1pm: Afternoon: Hot: 80 degrees, hiking at The Guana Tolomato Reserve in S...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: :48
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.

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


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
The Speed of Sound: Matthew Logan Vasquez (of Delta Spirit)
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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After fronting Delta Spirit for the last decade, Matthew Logan Vasquez decided it was finally time to try out his solo side. Not that he has any p...

Bought by KUCB, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Edith Piaf in Ménilmontant
From: Charles Spira
Caption: The Apartment at 5 rue Crespin du Gast
In this short audio document we'll visit a fascinating small museum which celebrates the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. We'll discover fascin...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
Forging a Path from Metal
From: Christopher Mosson
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Made in the Transom traveling workshop: Welding large metal structures takes its toll on an aging sculptor. What's an artist's retirement plan?

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
Digging for Disco
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Michael Boothman - Touch 12" Vinyl, Credit: Invisible City Editions
Music genres come and go, but it seems that the reports of disco’s death have been greatly exaggerated. That is at least according to a couple of e...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2