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Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
Caption: Kelly McEvers, Credit: Glen Carey
NPR's Kelly McEvers' unprecedented and intimate portrait of the sacrifices reporters and their families make to tell untold stories -- and the some...

Bought by WRPI, KZYX, KRCB-FM, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Marble donut from Serres Donut Shop in Syracuse, NY, Credit: Anna O. Grant
One woman’s quest for an iconic donut that she remembers from childhood and what she learns about life while on her search.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 20:59
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This week, we go left or we go right.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Harvey Barberg of Cokato Stands By the One-room Cabin Where Ancestors Spent Their First Winter
For the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series on Minnesota Finns. This is our last segment and perhaps ironically -- o...

Bought by KSRQ and KFAI


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Melissa in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
Listen to Melissa's teenage and grown-up diaries in this podcast episode.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 40:01
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Over the past 20 years the bee population of the UK has declined by 50%, but the interest in urban beekeeping has been steadily growing. We speak t...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 26:36
Caption: View of the Shard from the Heygate Estate, Credit: Chris Wood
A documentary montage of soundscapes and voices from Elephant and Castle, London, UK the site of Europe's largest urban re-generation project. The ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 46:19
Caption: Florence Price
Florence Beatrice Price wrote more than 300 musical compositions. Some of her works have been lost, others are unpublished, and some of piano and v...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel li...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
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Inside the making of Preservation Hall Jazz Band's new album, featuring interviews with the band and co-producer Jim James (My Morning Jacket)

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael from Let's Travel radio explains the wonders of provence france. With full detail's from food to music , art and tourist attractions. This...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:29
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Part II of the Allegheny Front's award winning documentary, "Gas Planet".

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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On May 23, the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its ban on gay youth members. The ban on gay adult leaders still stands. This program looks at...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Idle No More, Credit: Fist vector by Shane Thayer, editing and text by Jonathon Reed
In the winter of 2012, flash mob round dances, demonstrations, hunger strikes, and blockades swept Canada. What began as a protest against new law...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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This is the story of the life and death of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language. It was produced for the Transom Story Workshop.*

  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:21
Caption: A Surly Puppet
Secret Awesome defies categories. But if you press the founder, Zak Kirwin, he describes them as a D.I.Y. artists collective. They are definitely a...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: Lil' Poopy
In Brockton Massachusetts, a ten-year-old rap star's career has got people talking. His story raises questions about parenting, race, and how a kid...

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
Caption: Chip Koser in his workshop.
Chip Koser of Mashpee is a professionally trained chef who’s worked in a number of famous restaurants. But in recent years Chip has been spending l...

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
Caption: Josh Cutler in 2013, Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
In high school, Josh Cutler documented his life with Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary v...

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 40:12
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Is there life after Lubbock? Joe Ely revisits his old stomping grounds. Also, Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen shake things up LIVE in Studio 1A, ...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 54:02
Caption: Gordon Howard in conversation with a Blue Jay, Credit: Gerald Zahavi
A profile of two master bird banders (and their trainees) who converge every May on the Crown Point State Historic site along the shores of Lake Ch...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 26:43
  • Purchases: 1
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In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
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Longtime New Yorkers recall a bygone era of NYC when eating out was a rare luxury, and eateries that vanished long ago -- automats, Nedick's (hot d...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
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Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:18