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MS 23-31: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 8/10/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
Science unscripted 08/02/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — Food for thoughts (RERUN)

Bought by WMFE and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
MS 23-30: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 8/3/2023
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
Owl-Eye's View
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Great Horned Owl, that's who. Although they're horn shapes and not actual horn material. As far as ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - John Elizabeth Stintzi
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer John Elizabeth Stintzi discusses their brand new novel, "My Volcano."

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KNCT FM, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 33: Tamar Gendler On the Five Ancient Secrets to Modern Happiness, 5/2/2021
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Kelly talks with Yale philosopher, Dean Tamar Gendler to wrap up the Human Natures series with some fascinating insights.

Bought by KQED, WUFT, Maine Public Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
And the Word Was Gaia
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It looks like we sort of infuriated Good Ol' Mother Gaia to the point that Gaia is feeling the need to perhaps wipe us off the face of the Earth, t...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Omen of the Raven
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. When the Mojave is cooking that's when we start figuring out a w...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Re:sound - The Chicago Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, a love letter to city of broad shoulders: Chicago.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Spokane Public Radio, 'The Sea', Troy Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
There will be no coughing on the spaceship. The quarantine lasts for many months. If everyone's healthy, well then the spaceship may be allowed to ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Goofball Factor
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Every weird story that you almost want to believe is required, by cosmic law, to have a Goofball Factor.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daydream
From: Huey Younger
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After starting my morning routine and getting a head start on homework, boredom quickly takes over, and I find myself in a world of musique concrète!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Benjy Section 01
From: Ken Cormier
Series: The Benjy Section
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“Eulogy,” by Ken Cormier Background music: “Earresponsibility,” by David Salowich (from The Blister Pack)

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
WHAT'S HAPPENING - September 22, 2018
From: Whats Happening!
Caption: Christians on Campus
BROADCAST SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 IN BLOOMINGTON, IN ON WIUX 99.1 FM

  • Added: Sep 22, 2018
  • Length: 54:28
GN_4.46_Pawgwarts
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Animal shelter fosters a magical way to increase dog adoption.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
The Boys From The Garage (their return to WCWP) this time with additional guests!
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
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new stories!

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 53:52
These Shoes Were Made For Mocking
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the trai...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 24:42
The 19th Floor
From: Greg Barron
Caption: How does one get to the 19th floor?
Produced by two-time Peabody Award winning feature producer, Greg R. Barron, “The 19th Floor” is a light-hearted little “ditty”, an acoustic ariett...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 12:53
Hunter S. Thompson
From: Facts About Fiction
Caption: Hunter S. Thompson, Long Beach, California, May 1989, Credit: Rs79
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
Sheriff Blotter Prose
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
Police Log, May 2015
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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It's time again for a sampling from the Barre and Montpelier police logs, as reported in the Times Argus, and read by Scott Carrier. This month the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
Sure Thing: A Short Play by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Liv Rooth
A meet-cute in a coffeeshop contains multitudes, in this entertaining, experimental short, now a classic, from David Ives (Venus in Fur). It is fro...

Bought by KZYX, KUNM, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 3
That's Siggidy
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2012
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What does siggidy mean? Daniel Metz and Demitrus Price are hosting again and are happy to tell you! Inside today’s episode you will find stories ab...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
Superman Gets Dumped and Batman Returns... Our Phone Call
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2013
Caption: Srikar and Maddie battle for the Oreos., Credit: Lila Kitaeff
Captain Wonder Man and Graphite Girl from RadioActive bring you stories of Superman, Batman and the Southcenter Mall.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:08
Musical Video Game 1:00
From: Paul Messing
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The amusing rhythmic sounds of a non-existent video-game. An amusing :60 interstitial.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: :59