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Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
Money Matters takes on the DHS in this biting piece. Evergreen for May 2013 only. Preview first- edgy.

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Columbine Principal Frank DeAngeles, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Can trauma be healed with architecture and design? Eric Molinsky looks how Columbine, Aurora and Virginia Tech have changed.

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
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An exploration of beautiful renderings from our favorite classic and contemporary vocal Goddesses. This 54:30 program includes classic tracks from ...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 54:30
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Every Friday, individuals who wish to connect with the land and garden communally are invited to attend PLOT 22's Garden Fridays. In this intimate...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:21
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Every Friday, individuals who wish to connect with the land and garden communally are invited to attend PLOT 22's Garden Fridays. In this intimate...

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  • Length: 22:30
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Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
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Poet Mark Doty discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 National Book Award, and his 2013 book-length...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ruben Aguilar (R) and Bill Luna (L)
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
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In this short play, Jerry Stiller and Bob Dishy play two holocaust survivors berating a new holocaust museum.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 12:01
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The six educators who died in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Citizenship (at a Wh...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: John Dancing Crow, Credit: Woody Crenshaw
Sometimes our life's path appears, quite mysteriously, as if we were chosen for it. Crow's Story tells tells of his path, blending his music with a...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:05
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WNJR, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It may be hard to imagine, but in the 1950's, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." This week we explore the real-life legend of Duke'...

Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNJR, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
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Mad Genius presents the latest story-song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "The Police Made Them Hold Hands And Close Their Eyes." C...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 04:18
Caption: Father's Day
Reflections on a life well lived.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
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A schoolmaster's departure from a boy's boarding school sets off a chain of devastating revelations.

Bought by KMUN, KUOW, KWMR-FM, KKRN, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Plumbing the depths of the human experience, we explore a straightforward idea: What is it like when everything changes? In short storytelling form...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
Caption: A sculpture of a tumor made by caraballo-farman for Object Breast Cancer , Credit: caraballo-farman
A pair of artists came up with a new approach to representing breast cancer that's very different from pink ribbons. They use MRI scans to sculpt b...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WAMC


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
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Daniel Ross talks about being a volunteer firefighter while serving time in a minimum security prison.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Runners line up at the start of the Great Limerick Run 2012
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:31
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Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed. [25:44]

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 25:45
Caption: An aerial view of North Beach Island where five cottages were demolished by the federal government.
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Music responding to tragedy.

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Crimson Cries, Blue Echoes
In Key West, Florida,a neighborhood rooster's cries awaken a woman mourning her mother's recent death.

  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 05:58