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Election Signs
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: An attempt in vain to try something new., Credit: Campaign poster by Larry Rivers.
Graphic designer Michael Bierut answers the question: Why do all election signs look the same?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KCUR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KGOU and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2004
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 8
Teflon Tony
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How/Why nothing seems to stick to Tony Blair

  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:15
Missed Connections
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Single commuters use mass transit for mass flirting

Bought by WKNO and GAUF


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Miss Subways Reunion
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Meet the ladies who won the bygone "Miss Subways" contest that ran from 1941 to 1976

  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:36
Take the 'A' Train
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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Take a ride on the A train - the subway's longest line

  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:27
My Drug of Choice
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
If steroids are outlawed, is coffee far behind?

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
Finally: A Cure For Nervous Sheep
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
Hell Means Money!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Belief in hell has direct correlation with prosperity. Good? Bad?

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
See Me Feel Me Touch Me Shave Me
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Barbers are on the wane. Hell in handcart, etc.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:27
Grad Student Discos for Dollars
From: Hillary Frank
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A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago pays for his living expenses by disco dancing on the street.

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, KUOW, PRX to iTunes, KGOU and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2004
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 6
Das Fuhrer Clean
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A satire that gives the BEST and most inventive use for the Patriot Act.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 1
Presidents' Day
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a satire targeting President Bush's inability to use the English language.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 1
Gethsemane II
From: Robert Nowak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gethsemane II is a satire on President Bush's religious pretensions.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Sep 04, 2004
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 1
Working the Night Shift
From: WFUV
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Night shift workers share their perspective on life after dark, family obligations and the big question -- when do they sleep ?

Bought by KMSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KZYX, KFCF FM, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2004
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 32
The Attack on Black
From: Jessica Seigel
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Why basic black remains basic in fashion despite yearly marketing assaults.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 06:19
Dead of Summer and other poems.
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: NYC, Credit: M. Van Halteren
2" audio poem about summer, part of group of four. available separately.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and WMBR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 4
Cat Show
From: Aaron Henkin
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An audio tour through the Cat Fanciers' Association's Exotic Cat Show

Bought by PRX Remix, WMMT, KUT, KZSC, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 7
A Disturbance in the Force
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An internet video game addict loses all bearing on the boundary between fantasy and reality.

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, WBHM, New Hampshire Public Radio, Audible and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 7
Singing Sanitation Worker
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a sanitation worker sings his way through a very lat...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, PRX Remix, WEKU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 21
The Pierogi-eating contest
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An essay 'snapshot' of an ethnic neighborhood fair in Cleveland, Ohio

  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 03:37
Giving Radio
From: Joshua Kilpatrick
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A radio piece is given as a disasterous fiftieth birthday gift.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 09:35
Alpendub
From: monika mueller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Twist on Germanic Alpine Music

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2004
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Fiat 500 Fan
From: monika mueller
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Her best travel companion - a Fiat 500

  • Added: Aug 08, 2004
  • Length: 03:05
George Dubya: An Old School Mix
From: Michael Stark
Caption: PRX default Piece image
......as heard on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show"

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2004
  • Length: 17:23
  • Purchases: 1
Ken Best/Stephen John Dunkley
From: Noah Reibel
Series: Playing for Change
Caption: PRX default Piece image
another musician/songwriter playing for change in the subway

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1

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