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A Shortcut Through 2023
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: GW Bridge June 2023
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
A Shortcut Through 2022
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Volodymyr Zelensky
A retrospective featuring the major events of each passing year, Shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtaposit...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRCB 104.9, Raven Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 7
AG 21-22: The Songs That Won The War, 5/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Conflict and Violence
From: Wind & Rhythm
Caption: Grenade attack on Panzer Tanks, Battle of Amiens, The Somme 1918, Credit: Fritz Fuhrken
How does one creatively express the horrors of war? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we look at how artists communicate the effects of violence an...

Bought by WRTI, GCR (Global Community Radio), WQCS, KMFA, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
Standing With Ukraine
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Standing With Ukraine!, Credit: Shepard Fairey
As Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts an unjustified invasion and starts his own war, We Stand with Ukraine- mixing reactions from around th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
GN_5.02_PlayingForPeace
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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A famed orchestra conductor plays the war-torn streets of Baghdad to soothe the savage scars of violence.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Sony Soundtracks — Keeping Score podcast features 1917’s Jos Slovick in ‘I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger’
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Sony Soundtracks — Keeping Score
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Jos Slovick is the featured guest on Sony Soundtracks Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Jos gives us a ...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:25
Walk across America
From: Georgia Walker
Caption: Walk across America, Credit: Van Booth
When Van Booth retired from the army in 2016, he came home with a heavy load of PTSD. He found a spot up on the train tracks to park his car and wa...

Bought by HowSound and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 2
'Why him and not me?' Songwriting to mend the wounds of war
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier appeared at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Cal. as part of her nationwide tour for "Rifles and Rosary Beads.", Credit: Libby Denkmann/American Homefront
For her new album, Nashville singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier collaborated with veterans to write songs about war, service, and life after the milit...

Bought by WUSF, KMUD, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Texas Public Radio, and KPBS


  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 5
Dayenu
From: Judith Sloan
Caption: Hagadah of Sloan's from her father., Credit: photo Warren Lehrer
Actress/Radio Producer Judith Sloan produces Dayenu, a story/commentary with music by Frank London and Judith Sloan. Sloan looks at the complexity ...

Bought by KVNF, KWMR, KZYX, WSLR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 6
A Drum Is Always With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 3
Story of a Yup'ik Eskimo rapper
From: Ashley Gross
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A sound-rich portrait of a young Yup'ik Eskimo man who uses rap music to work through his suicidal thoughts

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and KCUR


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 3
"EchoTaps" (866 people play Taps)
From: Gregory Keeler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
866 brass players in a line 41 miles long play Taps, then play as a group

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 10:24
  • Purchases: 1