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Savannah Music Festival Live Presents: Renaud Garcia-Fons
Series: Savannah Music Festival LIVE - Season Three
From Savannah Music Festival LIVE
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Tune in to this episode for highlights of a 2010 Savannah Music Festival performance by French bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons, an artist influenced by ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:32
Jamie Lee reports on ice skating, from rinks to lakes, and from learning with her father to being a woman in her fifties on skates
Series: Culturology
From KAXE
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From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Rent-A-Family
From Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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An ominous facility appears in a rural town and the playground is abuzz with anxious rumors.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:26
Sanderstown
From Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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The people of Sanderstown struggle with the dark past of a plague that left it's mark. A fictional piece by Elizabeth Morgan.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:14:44
Margo Hansen's talks to Heidi Holtan about her recent book "Sky's Bridal Train."
Series: Real Good Words
From KAXE
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Realgoodwords is our weekly book program; a place for those who read, write and appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:12:20
Kentucky Exhibits Mark Civil War Sequicentennial
From WFPL News
Caption: Monument at Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
Two historical exhibits now open in Louisville, Kentucky explore the state's unique position as a Civil War border state.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:50
StoryCorps: Frank Curre
From StoryCorps
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88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:23
  • Purchases: 1
IMAGINARY OKLAHOMA: Alan Heathcock's "Streetlamps"
Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press
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Alan Heathcock reads us his story "Streetlamps" from our Imaginary Oklahoma series and explains the family history behind the unusual coupling in h...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Spare Me Yellow Skies by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Series: Poetry to the People
From This Land Press
Caption: Oklahoma Drought in 2011, Credit: Al Jazeera English
This past July was the hottest month ever on record for Oklahoma, or any other state for that matter. Farmers and ranchers have been hit the hardes...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Needle Drop: 08-20-11
Series: The Needle Drop
From WNPR
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New music from Chelsea Wolfe, the War On Drugs, and More.

Bought by KSJD, KRCB, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 00:57:09
  • Purchases: 5
My Antonia: A Big Read Documentary
Series: The Big Read
From National Endowment for the Arts
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A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:28:58
A Family Affair
Series: Erin Gleeson Podcast
From Erin Gleeson
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Ed Schrader created his own radio drama. The stories were about a real family, a family he knew. And they had absolutely no idea he was doing it.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:14
  • Purchases: 2
A Eulogy Too Soon
Series: Students of Violence
From Philly Youth Radio
Caption: Luis Lopez, Credit: Craig Santoro
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:55
  • Purchases: 1
Sailing Solo
Series: Erin Gleeson Podcast
From Erin Gleeson
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Former WFMU radio personality and musician OCDJ decided to give up his home, his possessions and all contact with loved ones for the pursuit of one...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:14:34
  • Purchases: 1
Cicada III
Series: Poetry to the People
From This Land Press
Caption: Cicada, Credit: Jeremy Luther
Cicada III is a communal reading of a poem by Oklahoma native Scott Aycock. In addition to Aycock's poem, we bring you a granddaughter's grief and...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:35
Delta Deli Blues
From Philip Graitcer
Caption: Rebecca Barrett and the Klines serving lunch, Credit: Philip Graitcer
Greenville, Mississippi is singing the blues about the corned beef luncheon.

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:26
  • Purchases: 1
Six Minutes
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
From Third Coast International Audio Festival
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A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 1
NOVA Minute: Loneliness in Space
Series: NOVA Minute
From NOVA
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NASA psychologist Al Holland describes the mental challenges astronauts might face during a 3-year mission to Mars.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Groundhog and Mirror
From Ronan Kelly
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Jane O'Connor is a young woman from Dublin whose mother was a big fan of the film Groundhog day. The irony of her beloved film choice was that when...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:28
  • Purchases: 4
A Cold Freezin Night
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
From Third Coast International Audio Festival
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Was it just a dream? I can't remember now.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Talk to Me About Love
Series: 2006 Third Coast ShortDocs: 99 Ways To Tell a Radio Story
From Third Coast International Audio Festival
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Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jesse James
From Katie Hargrave
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Jesse James was shot in April 1882. The objects in the home were sold at auction, photographs of the dead outlaw were reproduced, and the house in ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:10:17
We Are All Underground
From Tom Tenney
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Exploring the solitary space of underground subway musicians in NYC as they play soulful duets with the trains, the tunnels, and each other.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:15
  • Purchases: 1
Alone and Left Out at Valentine's time
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Theo Lichter
High school senior Theo Lichter ponders a life of no sweetheart at Valentine's day, or any day, of getting left out and just accepting life for wha...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Day in the life of a Singing Telegram
From Becky Palmstrom
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Becky Palmstrom follows a day in a life of a singing telegram and asks – who uses singing telegrams in the 21st century? This segment profiles Gran...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:16
  • Purchases: 1

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