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Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Caption: Nigsiti Hailemariam - 2013
Nigisti Hailemariam has been in the United States for over 20 years; she has two kids, a stable job, and a red Honda outside her three bedroom apar...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:26
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Join host Bill Bulbeck as he explores the life, times and music from the reigning "Queen of Gospel" Shirley Caesar in Episode #2 of Christian Minst...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
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The Story of Christmas fills a programming need for reverent material for broadcast on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This one hour event combin...

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 57:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Third Coast was a blast!

  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:22
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A fire truck in the driveway, 20 at the table for meals and buying by the dozens (the better for sharing) my father believed in being Santa Claus y...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Crowned Eagle-Rosey, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Simon Thomsetts Crowned Eagle - Rosey, a 38 year old male, went completely blind due to catarax in both of his eyes. After a successful eye surgery...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
Caption: The exterior of Wally Pets in Wallingford, Seattle, Credit: Margaret Steck
Paul "Brownie" Brown runs the Wally Pets store in Wallingford. He spends at least one month every year traveling to see endangered animals all over...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.

Bought by KFAI and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mario Study with his service dog, Zen., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
An Ohio program recruits prison inmates to train dogs to work with special needs children.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
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All aboard the Happy Daddy bandwagon? Enjoy duos, solos, and more, all dedicated to or inspired by: your father, forefathers, stepfathers, grandfat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Anna Halprin explaining the Planetary Dance, Credit: Photo by photo by John Kokoska
Anna Halprin has influenced generations of dancers and artists with her unique integration of dance and healing work, as well as her use of perform...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 08:42
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For nearly 50 years now, a jazz artist who now resides in Northern California has enjoyed a career as one of the great performers on the vibraphone...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
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This episode is dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It features powerful civil rights music of multiple genres dating from the 60s to now.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
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An hour's worth of the best in new and independent Blues music for Christmas!

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
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This holiday stocking is overflowing with a bounty of winter sounds and seasonal stories.

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lawrence Hamilton
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Following the life of a Christian teenager.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
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The nation is losing 850 World War II veterans a day. One Virginia general is seeing that their sacrifice is remembered. Kelley Libby reports.

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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KALW’s Martina Castro spoke with sound designer Christopher Hedge about how he came up with the sound design for “Life: A Cosmic Story,” the show r...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima is about pride and assimilation, faith and doubt. This half-hour program includes readings by actor Cheech Marin a...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
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A NEA Literature Fellow and renowned writer, Rudolfo Anaya talks about not only his acclaimed novel Bless Me, Ultima, but the influence of the oral...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 23:56
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Special Breast Cancer Survivors Show: Kristi Moody decides to not take her doctor's advice, Penny Burkhalter is shopping for maternity clothes when...

Bought by KFOK-LP and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Life can be scary for children caught in the family court bureaucracy, but even kids with intact families often face harrowing ordeals – that’s wha...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:28
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by KSFR, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 4