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Lady Sovereign vs. Jelly Donut
From: Love + Radio
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Zach Slow: Celebrity dater, associate of rapping pastries

Bought by The Story


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
My Christmas Tale
From: Kai McMurtry
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A story of growing up and into the true spirit of Christmas.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 17:04
Encounters Aleutian Goose
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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This is an amazing tale about a goose, two scientists and an ocean between them

  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
Encounts Wild Sounds
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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Why do we love wild sounds? and what makes them worth saving?

  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Encounters Tide
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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The tide waits for no man, even when that man is waiting fo for the tide!

  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 58:00
Coming of age "illegal"
From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series
Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 4
Jon Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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After a horrible motorcycle accident Jon learns to walk again, but struggles with the impact on the life of his passenger.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 05:00
Scene of the Crime
From: Paul Bieber
Caption: Little girl in Nuevo Milenio
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2010
  • Length: 10:56
  • Purchases: 1
Crazy John
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
EZ Malone
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 3
Carmen's Grandmother
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c.2000
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 3
Despite Budget Cuts, Youth Meet Their Own Needs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
A Young Scholar vs. the Recession
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39
Heidi Portrait
From: Jamie Courville
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Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...

Bought by KUOW, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 7
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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Eastern Tennessee to Tucson, Arizona. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 24:22
  • Purchases: 4
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 6
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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Dover, Delaware to Highway 129, North Carolina. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 4
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 5
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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Keene Valley, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's moto...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, WRNC-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 5
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 4
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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Chicago, Illinois to Lake Oneida, New York. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle jou...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, WRNC-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 5
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 3
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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Northern Idaho to Gary, Indiana. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey around...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, WRNC-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 5
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 2
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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From Kanab, Utah to Portland, Oregon. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, WRNC-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 33:11
  • Purchases: 5
Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 1
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: Two Wheels to Nowhere
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From San Francisco, California to Kanab, Utah by way of the Salton Sea. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the stor...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, WRNC-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 30:20
  • Purchases: 5
Gap Year - Ailin Conant
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark London
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Ailin takes a year in Europe and becomes a matador. Kind of.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
Hard Times - Craig Taylor
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark London
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Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 07:57
The Love Boat
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark London
Caption: Gigi at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 26, 2010
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 2
Wolf:The Dispossessed, Part 10
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Headwaters of the Rapidan River, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:17