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New Orleans Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: New Orleans' Preservation Hall Jazz Band. , Credit: Joe Crachiola
Jazz was born in New Orleans, right? Well it depends on who you ask. This week on the show, we get to the bottom of that question and tour the site...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, WCAI / WNAN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Soul Serenade (A Tribute to King Curtis)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: King Curtis
This is a one hour musical program on the legacy of saxophonist KING CURTIS.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:16
  • Purchases: 1
Sourcing Conflict: Mineral Supply Chains and Human Rights in the Congo
From: Ian Gray
Series: Ceres Sustainability Podcast
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
Psychological Antidotes
From: Mikhail Tank
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2013 Lead Show track from Mikhail Tank's Darksoul Theatre Written, performed and produced by Mikhail Tank Published by Prince of Darkness, BMI Stu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
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
1971 Powell Memo
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz's Lost and Found
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: A disc from the Savory Collection, Credit: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
This week on the show, it's an hour of long lost finds from jazz's lost and found bin—from a recently discovered cache of forgotten 1930s radio br...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Ulysses Syndrome: Recordings from the Mediterranean Sea
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Following the ancient path of Ulysses, Soundwalk Collective continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 m...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
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
Inside the Adjustment Center at San Quentin State Prison
From: KALW
Caption: San Quentin State Prison
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 26:32
Distillations Episode 161: A Day in the Life - Morning
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - A Day in the Life: Morning, Noon, and Night
Caption: When it comes to kids and adults, the debate over fluoridated water has waged for decades., Credit: Flickr user sean dreilinger.
Today we begin the three-part series: A Day in the Life, spotlighting the common chemistry of morning, noon, and night. First, a look at what's lur...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 14:21
Louis Armstrong
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Volatile Climate and Economics
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Host Greg Dalton, Credit: Rikki Ward, Photographer
Today we look at the global economy and the fuels that run it. After a hundred years of growth propelled by subsidized fossil fuels and cheap credi...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz and the Visual Arts
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
Kill The Ego
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Kill the Ego: New York recordings 2002: is an epic, a tone poem, composed from 10 years worth of intimate field recordings. These are the fragmente...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
Future Docs 2: Rethinking medical school
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs
Caption: Phil Gruppuso, Brown University, Credit: Brown University
Medical school isn’t what it used to be. Budding doctors have to learn more and study harder than they ever have. And changes in the health care sy...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
Mandy's Diary: God is my Guy
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Mandy attends an evangelical Christian church. Every Sunday, she arrives at least an hour early for services, because that’s one of the things you...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:20
Ricky's Diary: What if God...
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Ricky’s father is an atheist activist. These days, Ricky is beginning his own search for God, and something to believe in. This story is part of th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
Brina’s Diary: Best Four Years of Your Life
From: Radio Diaries
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Brina keeps this audio journal of her first year at Brown University. “I have this weird sense that anybody I meet I might never see again. And al...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:06
1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Bought by WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
America, the Wonderful and Weird
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A one-hour magazine program with four interviews that reveal some alternative slices of America, including a travelogue of gross and strange attrac...

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 46:00
  • Purchases: 1
1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
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
Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What's It Like?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:30

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