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Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
Caption: Records From Around the World, Credit: Willis Arnold
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Customers
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?

  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Avraamov conducting the Symphony of Sirens in Moscow. November 7, 1923., Credit: Andrey Smirnov
In November of 1923, a Soviet composer named Arseny Avraamov stepped onto a Moscow rooftop clutching two oversized flags. His plan: to conduct an ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Angel Quinonez
Angel Quinonez first became interested in tattoos growing up next to a motorcycle club. He got his first tattoo when he was 17 and starting tattooi...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:45
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Youth producers at Gorzycki Middle School go back in time….to the ’80’s.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
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Gorzycki youth producers discover the ancient sounds of the classical guitar.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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A culinary tour of Morocco, where food and culture are Inseparable. Piece ends 3min, trailing out music.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 01, 2012
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Whiskey in the barrel, Credit: Hal B. Klein
Most people know what whiskey tastes like...but what does it sound like? Booze columnist Hal B. Klein takes us inside Wigle Whiskey, an organic dis...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:22
Caption: Giancarlo Calicchia's "Genesis," a 28-foot long, 2,000+ pound wooden sculpture., Credit: Dan Moulthrop
Cleveland’s Renaissance man hopes to rejuvenate the Rust Belt with art.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 12:52
Caption: Alan Goodwin, Credit: Cape Cod Laughter Yoga
Clare and Alan Goodwin founded Cape Cod Laughter Yoga in 2008. Every week since, they've led a group of a dozen or more people of all ages through ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 07:23
Caption: 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. ...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and KFAI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 2
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: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 5
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One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: bored camels, Credit: jake warga
Talking, in Arabic, with the animals in Egypt. Specifically animals out of work because their country had a revolution and their main clients, tour...

Bought by Listen Edition, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Chicago's historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge was once the favorite haunt of mobster Al Capone.
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012 with a look back at some of our favorite interviews and music from the ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KZYX, WNCU, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Hammond B3 organ legend Jimmy Smith ringin' in the holiday back in 1964
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we get you in the spirit with an hour of some of the best—and off-the-beaten-path—holiday jazz.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KDUR, Panhandle Community Radio, Red River Radio Network and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Children have their own kind of oral history in the form of rhymes and handclapping games that are passed down from generation to generation. What ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
Caption: A Beer Tent in Louisville, Kentucky, Credit: Gabe Bullard
A vox pop of people hanging out in a state fair beer tent. They share their dating tips, advice for people watching and explain what they'd be doin...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Clemens. Photo by Albert Bigelow Paine (1906), courtesy of the Mark Twain Project.
David Ross tells the tale of Mark Twain in this original documentary.

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 23:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shea Shackelford enjoying a barbecue sundae at the 2005 National Cornbread Festival, Credit: Jennifer Deer
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4