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Jewish Songs for Winter
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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What kind of Jewish music would suit you on a wintery afternoon? Pop? Yiddish? Latin? Enjoy our winter playlist!

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Shadows in Gold
From: Will Rogers
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When he first came to America, Professor Nicholas Jenkins rented a car and set out on a leisurely drive through the hills of California. Then a car...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 1
Life by Robert Mack
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
StoryCorps: Joel Healy and Kelli Healy Salazar
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
Conversations 104: Alison
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Alison
A conversation with 'Alison', a South African woman at the center of one of the most infamous criminal trials in her country's history.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
Life as a Death Investigator
From: This Land Press
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For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her...

Bought by KUT and KOSU


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Baby in His Lap
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting guns and shooting drugs for h...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
Taking A Break From Gang Life
From: Candice Ludlow
Series: Gangs in the City
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Former Traveling Vice Lord talks about how he got involved in gangs to being imprisoned for transporting a couple kilos of marijuana to deciding to...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
Hard Time - Shaun Atwood
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark London
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A true story told live in London. As a trader, Shaun had it all - money, cars, women - until he got into dealing drugs as well as shares. This is h...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:50
The Things They Carried - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
A Child's View of Domestic Violence by Valencia McMurray of MPR News
From: YouthCast
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
Broken Glass
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Caption: JoBeth Williams
A probing psychological drama from Arthur Miller.

Bought by KMUN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:54
  • Purchases: 7
Unshelled Peanut
From: Sage Tyrtle
Series: True Stories
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Although I really wanted a baby, once I was pregnant I felt indifferent. I worried I'd be one of those mothers who ends up on the evening news.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 1
Planet Buddy
From: Graham Shelby
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Buddy was a sixteen-year-old bad boy who was experimenting with being good. I'd been a good boy my whole life and was ready to try being bad. Then ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jon Brock and Glenny Brock
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
OPEN SOURCE: Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
All My Sons
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Arthur Miller's powerful drama of a family in denial.

Bought by KUT-HD, KMUN, KRCB-FM, WBEZ, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:55
  • Purchases: 6
How I Learned To Tell Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
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A new radio play by Jay Kettering. This hilarious and poignant play set in 1960s Montana has universal appeal. Whether you’re background is rural o...

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2010
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 2
Funny Thing, Being Mugged
From: Jake Warga
Caption: My glasses, Credit: Jake Warga
A personal story of being violently mugged

Bought by KUT, HCC Radio The Dragon, KCRW, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Lightsey Darst
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Lightsey Darst, Credit: Terese Tenseth
On this edition of Art Beat we feature Minnesota poet Lightsey Darst. Darst was visiting Winona State University Professor James Armstrong's class ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 31:07
Breaking the Bank
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "State of Privilege" 7/30/2010: War News Radio takes a look at how Iraqi politicians are filling their wallets while their country continues t...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 07:16
The Disappearance of Ammar al-Safar
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "State of Privilege" 7/30/2010: War News Radio investigates the 2006 kidnapping of Ammar Al-Saffar, an Iraqi deputy minister of Health.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 08:06
State of Privilege
From: War News Radio
Caption: The two highest earning Iraqi politicians: Prime Minister Maliki and President Talibani, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
Short List #3
From: David Green
Series: Short Lists
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A collaborative “Short List” poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by KUOW, WTIP, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 6
August, 21st 1968
From: Joanna Stein
Caption: David Cerny, Ruzovy Tank (Pink Tank), Credit: artlist.cz
Alena Hromadkova remembers the day that The Soviet Union invaded her country, Czechoslovakia.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:04