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Basket Case: The Scourge of Bike Basket Litter
From: Elah Feder
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Cyclists share their outrage, amusement, and curiosity about the litter that ends up in their bicycle baskets.

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:53
Survivors
From: Playing on Air
Caption: Lynnette Freeman
Three short plays. In Two Jewish Men in Their Seventies, Jerry Stiller and Bob Dishy play two holocaust survivors berating a new holocaust museum. ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:03
Healing With Music
From: With Good Reason
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For teenagers dealing with substance abuse issues, talking about what they’re feeling can be a challenge. So one music therapist uses rock and heav...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
William Devine Golf Course Audio Postcard
From: Mason Sand
Caption: Mr. Jones on the course, Credit: Mason Sand
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
Shadows of Grey in the Corner of Your Eye: Your Universe is Not My Universe
From: Kimberly Haas
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Cities are crowded, busy places, so crowded and so busy that parallel universes can occupy the same spaces, and when they overlap, it can be proble...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teens and Illegal Guns: Local Solutions
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
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The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:42
Teens and Illegal Guns: Attitudes and Uses
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira, Y-Press
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Teens and Illegal Guns: Access
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Teens and Illegal Guns: Overview
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
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In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Podcast #53: Ensuring children’s right to education in rapidly growing urban areas
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: Children displaced by Tropical Storm Washi look at UNICEF-provided colouring supplies, at a child-friendly space in a high school in the coastal city of Iligan, Northern Mindanao Region. The spaces offer safe places for children to play, learn, and regain, Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2138/Palasi
UNICEF's podcast moderator Femi Oke speaks with experts about the impact of rapid urbanization on children and education.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 10:42
Episode 2 - The English Pastoral Tradition
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: The Music of Downton
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Discovering the surprising origins of so-called British "pastoral" music.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The New Girl Scouts
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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Just shy of their 100th birthday, the Girl Scouts are working to shed their cookie and campfire image with new badges that focus on skills like rob...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Girl Scouts: Beyond Campfires and Cookies
From: With Good Reason
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The Girl Scouts of the United States of America have recently revamped their image and program with new badges focusing on skills like robotics and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Sustainable Cities: There's an App for That!
From: Denis Du Bois
Series: Energy Priorities
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Sustainable urban development is a whole new way of thinking for American cities. Technology is emerging to help planners, architects and residents...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Decisions Project - 27 - College and Horses
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A woman reflects on her decision to give up equestrianism and go to college.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Nat Turner: Planting Seeds for a Lifetime
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orlean's Lower Ninth Ward into an urba...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Sustainability of Cities
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Green Ethics
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Half the world now lives in cities, and they are growing. Are megacities an opportunity or a threat?

  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Bass/Super(sonic) Structure
From: Daniel Makagon
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Audio documentary explores the uses of loud car stereo systems.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 14:49
Heavy Weather (Part II)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate c...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Heavy Weather (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tillamook Floodplain, Credit: Barbara Bernstein
On this edition, we’ll hear part one of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll explore the connection...

Bought by The Neighborhood


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A trip to Chevak
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: Kelsey Hernandez walks from teacher housing to Chevak School on a cold mid- April morning., Credit: Rosey Robards
ATMI reporter Kelsey Hernandez traveled with five Colony Middle School students to Chevak, Alaska. Adam Rose-Levy interviews her about her experi...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Oasis in an Urban Food Desert
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A look at a project bringing healthy food to low income neighborhoods in Oakland, California.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:45
Forest to Desert
From: Sarah Boothroyd
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An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert."

Bought by KFAI, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 3