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Caption: Dirk Ockhardt from Germany talks about European dating, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
A look at different dating rituals around the world. From Europeans getting married later in life like in Chicago, NY and other places, to a Muslim...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
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Our guest experts give our audience advice on how to help kids navigate relationships on the internet.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:57
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Our guest experts give our audience advice on how to turn your favorite hobby into your new job.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
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Our guest experts give our audience advice on making the most of what you've got when it comes to gardening.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:58
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Our guest experts give our audience advice on how to bike safely in an urbanized area.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:57
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 KBGA 89.9 FM, Troy Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WRGY, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: THE CALLER ON LINE ONE, Credit: SCOTT DICKIE
A Radio Thriller (part of the CAPE COD RADIO MYSTERY THEATER series to be uploaded soon) Our most popular radio thriller.

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 35:22
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
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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
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The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
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Learning to navigate through the dark. Much like a radio listener, a blind person has to rely a lot on their sense of hearing. But once you learn t...

Bought by WFPL News, KOSU, Public Radio Remix, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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We wanted to hear about Christmas from the under 5 demographic and this is what we got!

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:35
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 Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, KMUN, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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Great music from an artist you've never heard of.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: singing canditates
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: MIke Smith
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:25
Caption: Satchmo gettin' spooked back in 1936
In this hour, it's our annual Halloween special with stories and sounds from jazz's spooky side.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KWIS 88.3 FM, KZYX, KSQM 91.5 FM and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Trumpeter Herb Alpert is the only artist in history to have a number one song as both an instrumentalist and as a vocalist.
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we go in search of jazz's flash-in-the-pan and pop crossover phenoms whose light burned bright and then burned o...

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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Did This Happen? Logo, Credit: Grant Baciocco
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen? Logo, Credit: Kevin MacLeod
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen? Logo, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:02
Caption: Did This Happen? Logo, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen? Logo, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:02