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Butterflies
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Butterflies" is about the House of Butterflies.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 1
no. 116,842
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"No. 116,842" is about Margaret Knight.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 11:11
Artist in Landscape
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Artist in Landscape" is about John James Audubon and Lucy Bakewell.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:46
  • Purchases: 1
Fifty Words Written After Learning the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to Two Hundred Years
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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Fifty words written after learning the Arctic Bowhead whale can live up to two hundred years

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Dreamland
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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In which we hear about Dreamland, the amazing Coney Island amusement park that burned down in 1911.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 2
Shore Leave
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Shore Leave" is about the US Coast Guard.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:06
Below, from Above
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Below, from Above" is about the Brooklyn Bridge.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 12:29
The Wheel
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"The Wheel" is about Robert Smalls.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 15:21
Great Northern Radio Show - Larson's Barn - McGregor,MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Great Northern Radio Show
Caption: Timmy Haus
Presented by Northern Community Radio and Aaron Brown, The Great Northern Radio Show blends the classic model of a radio variety show with some mod...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:44
Overland
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Overland" is about Captain George Fred Tilton.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 1
Homesteading
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Homesteading" is about moving to America and making it home.

Bought by Prairie Public and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 2
Season of the Witch
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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This episode explores the terrifying fates of those we call witches.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Dating Show - Historic Hotel, Travel Book Authors, Single Guy, Girl on Beach
From: Michelle Valentine
Series: The Dating Show (free, $0)
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Listeners escape with Michelle Valentine to a quaint, historical Florida waterside bed & breakfast. Learn about the history of the hotel and take a...

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1521 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/24/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Two very different sides of Los Angeles saxophone kick off this journey, Dale Fielder and Little Helen Rose. Reliable Bob Dorough gets wired, Stan ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WKAR, KCMJ Community Radio, WOUB, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 5
Great Heaps of Grain and People (and Diseases): On Being Domesticated by the State
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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My guest in this hour is James Scott whose writing is a trek through the history of state-making and resistance to being shackled to governance. Hi...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
SITPE # 1613
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KSJD and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Allegheny Front Earth Day Special
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
New book explores huge role women played in founding Mayo Clinic
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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March is Women's History Month. A new book, "Women of Mayo Clinic:The Founding Generation," explores the significant contributions women made to th...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 17:51
  • Purchases: 1
Origins of JazzGrass, Vol. 4 ~ Guitar
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: On The Air at WGDR-Plainfield, VT ~ Goddard College Community Radio, Credit: B. Aust
The Origins of JazzGrass continues with a first pass through the most influential guitar players in bluegrass, jazz, progressive acoustic and relat...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:36
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
Becoming Jeffersons People Part Two
From: The Thomas Jefferson Hour with Clay Jenkinson
Series: The Thomas Jefferson Hour
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Clay S. Jenkinson discusses his book: "Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century" in the second o...

Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Monica's Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Einstein's Mistakes
From: Philip Armand
Caption: Einstein's Mistakes, Credit: Cynthia Bogart
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:54
Celebrating the Birthday of Sarah Vaughan
From: KCUR
Caption: Sarah Vaughan
(Air Dates: March 22 - 28) On this week's archive edition of 12th Street Jump we celebrate the birthday of Sarah Vaughan with our special guest, An...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Best of Ireland, Portraits from Cuba, Exploring Mid-Michigan
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of the photo book "The Cubans", Credit: Jay Seldin
World Footprints will venture through Ireland, show Cuba in black and white, and show mid-Michigan in a unique light.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:55

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