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Frontier Music
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 50:00
Sipho Gumbo: A Revolution Is Defined as a Rapid Change in Events
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sipho Gumbo, Credit: Shefik
Revolution - Sipho Gumbo, the creator of Yangu Beauty, sought out a leading expert in skincare chemistry to help transform her authentic recipes in...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:24
Across the Reference Desk
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 1
Rick Bass, author of "The Traveling Feast"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Rick Bass about his book "The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes"

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Mainlander
From: Patricia Petelin
Series: The Midrange
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I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2018
  • Length: 13:08
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
Leonard Cohen: Evolution From Poet to Songwriter and Singer
From: David Tarnow
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Leonard Cohen: How a shy, sensitive poet from Canada became a major recording artist. This one-hour radio show documents Leonard Cohen's very firs...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
Novus Ordo Seclorum
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:47
Bloodier Than Tarantino: The Real Slave Narrative and Its Complexities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
TSR15-05 Don McClean
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California, during the student riots. After being rejected 72 times by labels, the ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KALH, KMSU, KPIP-LP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 11
TSR14-25 Live From Wausau
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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On the road from The Grand Theater in downtown Wausau, WI. Featuring Frank Montano, Charlie Parr, Michael Perry, the Blue Canvas Orchestra and spe...

Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio, WRNC-LP, WNMU-FM, WDSE, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 04: The Poets of San Quentin
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: San Quentin
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 03: Workshop with Kyes Stevens
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Kyes Stevens
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetr...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
PPW - Louisiana: No Longer Invisible
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 2
PPW - New York: Voices UnBroken
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day in Poetry and Stories Narrated by Roy Trumbull
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A program of poems by Carl Sandburg on the mortality of things, civilizations, and men. A Native American story, and the tale of the last buffalos

Bought by KMUN and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 2
The Greatest Sports Writing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Stephen Crane - Sport and War
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Author Stephen Crane uses images and descriptions from sport to describe a war he never experienced in his classic novel about the American Civil ...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Wine-Dark Sea
From: Whitney Jones
Caption: The Sea
Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poetry Out Loud: Regional competition coverage
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Caption: Poetry Out Loud Participants, Credit: Patty Polasky
A documentary piece featuring citation and commentary from high school students from Fosston, Clearbrook-Gonvick, and Trek North High Schools durin...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 11:09
RN Documentary: Seamus Heaney: Bogging In Again
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Poet and Nobel laureate revisits dark past in response to recent wars and violence

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIK-LP, KUAC, KWMR, WABE and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 5 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 5 features former poet laureates Anthony Hecht, Maxine Kumin, Reed Whittemore, and newly appointed laureate Donald Hall.

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:05
  • Purchases: 8
How To Destroy A Book
From: Peter Crimmins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 4