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Caption: Dirk Ockhardt from Germany discusses jokes, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
Maintaining a sense of humor in another language can be difficult. Some misunderstandings can be humorous. Still, understanding the nuances of joke...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
Caption:  2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WUIS


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: el día del llibre i de la rosa
Whether you know April 23rd as la Diada de Sant Jordi, el día de la rosa, or el día del llibre, The Spanish Hour celebrates the Catalan national ho...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Trio Solisti
Chamber Music from Spain, Argentina, and Mexico from the early and mid 20th century

  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 49:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Each year, we ask some of public radio's most respected tastemakers to share their top picks for SXSW Music. We put those selections together and ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Photographer Andrew Kilgore
On this month's Tin Roof Project, it's acclaimed photographer Andrew Kilgore telling his own true story.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Former USA Vice President, Al Gore was an elected official for a quarter century before becoming the poster boy for climate change after the 2000 p...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
Caption: Isaac Albéniz
Classical music from mid-20th century Mexico and late 19th-century Spain by Miguel Bernal and Isaac Albéniz, who both died in their 40's.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Into Autumn, Credit: L. Sponsler
A sound picture of nature's restful season of change and anticipation, along with its accompanying human happenings, all framed by music as varied ...

Bought by WNIJ and KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Ruperto Chapí is best known for his 150 zarzuelas. But "the Spanish Massenet" composed in every genre. This week, a "zarzuela" of Chapí’s music for...

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Lukens
Rebecca Lukens (March 31, 1825): An American businesswoman. She was the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill that became the Lukens Steel C...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
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Love is in the air for El Día de los Enamorados, otherwise known as Valentine's Day. An hour of love songs from the middle ages through the early 2...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Vicki Leon
Author Vicki Leon takes us for a ride through the ages of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
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Big Pharma and Medical Insurance and their influence on the sick (and not so sick).

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 05:48
Caption: Giancarlo Arcieri., Credit: Renan Dario Arango.
This short audio doc about Giancarlo Arcieri, 35, a young violin maker based in Midtown Manhattan, was produced for WorkingNow.org.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Southern Cotton Picker
Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones. At the end of episode one, black attorney Jones was faces with taking on a racially charged mu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
Caption: Grand Prize Winner Angela Gattin
This week it's our Season 7 Finale Show, featuring our Top Stories of the Year. In a 1-hour show or in two parts. True stories told by the Southern...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Arkansas News
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 28:48
Caption: 1940s dial telephone
"Sorry, Wrong Number" --- Produced eight times between 1943 and 1960, "Sorry, Wrong Number," Lucille Fletcher’s phenomenal success is radio’s mos...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 21:03