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Miss Subways
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Two Lives of Asa Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:42
The Soul of Guatemala Part II A Shaking in Our Souls
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A Mayan woman praying in an Evangelical Church in Guatemala's Highlands, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part III Christian Citizens
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: El Shaddai Church in Guatemala City, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
EarthTones
From: Claire Schoen
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Sound is a vital though invisible aspect of human existence. “EarthTones” gives its audience the opportunity to experience the natural world throug...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 1
The 113th Annual Army-Navy Pageant
From: War News Radio
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The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
From The Roots Came The Rapper (A Tribute to Joe Tex)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: Joe Tex "The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)" 1966 45 rpm picture sleeve, Credit: Atlantic Records
Joseph Arrington, Jr. better known as "JOE TEX", was one of the greatest soul singers in history. His style was different from a James Brown, a Wil...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 54:54
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Ely, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Susan Shurke, Credit: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 09:56
Death Must Die
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, w...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast and Promo
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by WEKU, KZYX, WRIR, WORT, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 61
Searching Space
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 1
Randy’s Diary: Remembering Ozell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:11
  • Purchases: 1
Frankie’s Diary, Part 2: Football
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Frankie’s second Teenage Diary follows his season playing running back for the Valley Head Tigers. Recorded in 1997, Frankie documents his life as ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
"Haiti Cherie" (An Introduction to the Music of Haiti)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Rhythms of the Diaspora
Caption: Le Negre Marron
This one hour program is a sample of the rich music from HAITI. We will explore a few classic recordings from this rich country which is a an off-s...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 53:43
Jazz and Comedy
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz funnyman Cab Calloway
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KSFR, WNCU and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The Incredible Rahsaan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, KMUN, WNCU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Sex, Jazz and the Bawdy Blues
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin
In this hour, it's the shared history of jazz and sex—from the blues' raunchy roots to the French lounge singer who made the Pope into his "greates...

Bought by KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Big Bands
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Duke Ellington and his orchestra
Think of a jazz big band and it's probably the brassy sound of a 30's swing orchestra that comes to mind first. But throughout their more than 80 y...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, WEZU, WNCU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 11
Frank Zappa
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Frank Zappa
His music was an amalgam of classical music, jazz, R&B, doowop, poetry and—sometimes—just plain noise. And Frank Zappa the man had even more to him...

Bought by KZYX, Panhandle Community Radio, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WCMU Public Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
100 Years of Jazz's Avant Garde
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman
This week on the program, we dare to go where many jazz fans dare not tread as we explore 100 years of the jazz avant garde.

Bought by KWMR-FM, WNCU, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Great Jazz Cities: Philadelphia
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Philadelphia all-star trumputer Clifford Brown
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we're continuing our ongoing tour of America's "Great Jazz Cities" with the stories and sounds of jazz in Philad...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WNCU, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Jazz's Great Songwriting Teams
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Tin Pan Alley duo Rodgers and Hart
This week on the show, it's an hour with jazz's legendary songwriting teams—from Tin Pan Alley duo Rodgers and Hart, to Duke Ellington and Billy St...

Bought by WNCU, Radio New Zealand, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Jazz and Literature
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz poet, Langston Hughes
What do Langston Hughes, the 50's Beat writers, and jazz critics all have in common? They all like to write about jazz. This week we'll take a look...

Bought by WCSU-FM, WNCU, Radio New Zealand, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12