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For my sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience. And recently she tried to give them up.

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Mitch Skinner explores the world of Lego and some of its intricate designs.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:16
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There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Hawaiian Jazz 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"Singin' in the Bathtub", "Blue Hawaii" and "Aloha Oe" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 15th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"A Sunbonnet Blue", "Jumpin' On The Blacks And Whites", and "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 13th edition of Joe Bev...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 57:56
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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The sounds of childhood: jokes and playground songs.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Bobby speaks with Bob McManus, CMO of Fat Enzo, Inc., which is the umbrella corporation of “Bobby Pickles” brand tee shirts. Bob talks about his li...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:07:38
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High School Junior Tessa wonders why having friends on Facebook doesn't lead to friends in real life. Is it because we're different people when we...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:50
Caption: The Warehouse Theatre in Brussels, Belgium
The American Theater Company in Brussels, Belgium, will perform Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play, "A Delicate Balance" in January 2013. ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
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Bob Dylan’s voice has been compared to sandpaper and described as "a catarrhal death rattle." Blues music aficionado Devon Strolovitch discusses th...

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: setup for TV crews onsite at Union Station
New to California, the narrator experiences his first earthquake drill: online, and at LA's Union Station

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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
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College a cappella experts Charlie Forkish, Bill Hare, Deke Sharon, Mickey Rapkin and Will Tarpeh exchange thoughts on the current state of the boo...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
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n Hawaiian Hula, singing and dancing going hand in hand. Join Patrick Makuakane, director of Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, a hula school and performance ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
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A true story told live in London. As a child, David visits the home of British millionaire Richard Branson. Which happens to be on an island. Despi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
Caption: 4th of July on Swan's Island, late 1950s, Credit: courtesy of David Joyce (Swan's Island Memory Project)
Celebrate America's independence the Island way, with pranks, potato-spoon races, and pie eating. But remember, cheaters never prosper here.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Karlin does his best to win over a girl at Princeton Seminary with a fly rod and a healthy sense of confidence.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Aug 06, 2011
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1
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We travel into the peculiar world of the Gluedobbers, a gun and model plane club in East Tulsa. Featuring the voices of retired manual laborers, Gl...

Bought by KOSU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Martina at home.
The following is an excerpt from my interview with the late, great Martina Watkins.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:50
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Leon Kogut talks with his son, Marat Kogut, an NBA referee.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 04:26
Caption: One Flower
Freshman Victoria asks teenagers, "What is the ONE thing you wish you could do, but you can't?"

  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:48
Caption: Join Daniel Bishop, the Storyteller by the Campfire.
The program highlighting the art of Storytelling.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 55:14
Caption: The beginnings of an animation project by Claremont student Amir Rashid., Credit: Peter Heckel
At Claremont Middle School in Oakland, Calif., students learn the ropes of computer animation at a young age. Their teacher hopes this will qualify...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:15