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The Resurgence of Records
From: Andrew Bales
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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
The Symphony of Sirens, Revisited
From: Charles Maynes
Caption: Avraamov conducting the Symphony of Sirens in Moscow. November 7, 1923., Credit: Andrey Smirnov
In November of 1923, a Soviet composer named Arseny Avraamov stepped onto a Moscow rooftop clutching two oversized flags. His plan: to conduct an ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
Bonne Chance Comrades
From: Amira Anne Glickman
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This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 52:58
Dance Until the World Ends
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Life on the Party Line
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Today's privacy concerns with cell phones seem trivial when we look back at the world of open telephone wires.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
"Finns In Minnesota: The 1907 Mesabi Range Strike" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Iron Ore Car
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Two Lives of Asa Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:42
The Soul of Guatemala Part II A Shaking in Our Souls
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A Mayan woman praying in an Evangelical Church in Guatemala's Highlands, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part III Christian Citizens
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: El Shaddai Church in Guatemala City, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: Pastor Omar Bell laying on hands in El Calvario Church, Almolonga, Guatemala, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Latin America has been overwhelmingly Catholic for centuries, but that's changing, and Guatemala is leading the way, as Latin America's Evangelical...

Bought by KUT and The Story


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 2
Bartolo's Honey
From: Diane Bock
Caption: Yucatan Honey, Credit: John Bock
While visiting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, I had the good fortune to meet a Maya subsistence farmer named Bartolo. When Bartolo found out I was int...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
2012 11 9 AGOS Island Stories The Scotch Bonnet Republic Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Harbor on Silver Lake, Ocracoke Island, NC, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is like a republic unto itself, much like Key West, the Conch Republic. On the Scotch Bonnet Republic islanders have...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 24:36
The Living Fossil
From: Veronica Simmonds
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Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.

Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 2
Schizophrenia
From: Aubrey Ralph
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A look into life with Schizophrenia

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Tower, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Soudan Iron Formation - Banded Iron, Credit: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 3
Searching Space
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Saunas" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Chris Niskanen with his sauna, Credit: Britt Aamodt
The first Finnish immigrants to arrive in Minnesota settled here sometime around the middle of the 19th century and the close of the Civil War. Min...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sacred Music from the Navel of the World
From: Zak Rosen
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1
Indiana Avenue: Black Boulevard of Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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Episode 2 of “Jazz Crossroads of America,” a special four-part series on the history of Indiana jazz. Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard, J.J. Johnso...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Effie, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Effie North Star Stampede and Rodeo, Credit: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KFAI, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 3
The Great Moonshine Conspiracy: The true story behind the movie Lawless
From: Big Shed Audio
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Franklin County Virginia was once called "The Moonshine Capital of the World”, where corruption and exploitation put working families up against th...

Bought by KUOW, WMMT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 3
Centerstage Minnesota: Murder Of Crows
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Centerstage MN
Caption: Murder of Crows
Featured this week is a piece produced by Amy Clark on the new atmospheric alternative project from Duluth musicians Alan Sparhawk and Gaelynn Lea ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Blood On the Tracks: A musical train trip up Highway 61 in honor of Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Producer - Amy Clark
Producer Amy Clark presents a musical train trip up Highway 61 in honor of Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 1
Farming Underwater: Steve Mello’s Story
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01