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UnFictional: Cracking the Love Code
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Two stories about people looking for love using modern day strategies.

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
Purim Hits & Misses!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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Hear songs of joy, good humor, & drunkenness in honor of the Purim holiday!

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
The Beat: Robert Jevne - "Oh Christmas Tree"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Robert Jevne shares "Oh Christmas Tree," a lighthearted poem from the perspective of the Christmas tree itself. Through Jevne's poem, the sheer mor...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
A Goose for Christmas
From: Traveling 219
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A Christmas tale for the holidays

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
Solstice Season
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This folktale celebrates the dark stretch of the year with musical customs meant to brighten winter's darkest hours.

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Marketplace
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
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Folktales of the Marketplace

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
Snowfall
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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As they say in many a folk world, winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. In this episode of Folktales, Julia Meek tracks this...

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gratitude
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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A world of blessings and thankfulness in this episode of gratitude.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
" It's The 2nd Annual VERY Special Holiday Episode... for People Who Hate VERY Special Holiday Episodes."...told through narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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holiday season Politics/holiday season Journalism....including: Do you really think the presidential pardon ceremony for the Thanksgiving turkeys...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 57:02
Human Intelligence
From: The Truth
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A story by Kurt Anderson about melting icecaps and extraterrestrial spies.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 22:43
  • Purchases: 2
A Very Hipster Christmas
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: Baby, it's cool on this side!
Dear Santa, I am so cool. This year I need the hippest music on the planet. Here's hoping the mainstream doesn't flow all the way to the North Po...

Bought by KUCB, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
The Retro Cocktail Hour Halloween Spook-tacular 2012
From: Kansas Public Radio
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Another finger-snappin', hip-shakin' stew of monster melodies for a space age Halloween, including tunes by Zacherley, the Rigormoticians, Spike Jo...

Bought by KSRQ, Prairie Public, and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 3
Becky and Costumes
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
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Sexy Kittens, Sexy Nurses, Sexy versions of normal looking things and people are generally what goes for Halloween Costumes for women. Becky tells...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
Vital Topics: Improvised Love Songs (w/ Marshall York)
From: Sam Dingman
Series: Dingmantics
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In honor of everyone’s least-favorite “holiday,” Marshall York and his guitar join us to improvise “love” songs based on suggestions submitted by y...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 57:31
Family Holiday Traditions,...for better or for worse.
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Storytellers explore the crazy holiday traditions our families desperately cling to at this time of year.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:46:34
  • Purchases: 1
Our Lives on Holidays
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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On Temporal Naming Rights

  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:36
A Scary Home Companion
From: Doug Gordon
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What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Daws Butler's Halloween Happening
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Caption: Daws Butler's Halloween Happening, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of Yogi Bear, Daws Butler!

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 45:24
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
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Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by KUT and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 2
I Remember Radio #7: Thanksgiving
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Jack Benny, Flamingo, 1958, Credit: Dan Perry
Great names and great memories—Thanksgiving with Stan Freberg, Jack Benny, and Eve Arden.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 45:13
  • Purchases: 1
Professor Mikey's Chill Christmas
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: Professor Mikey's Chill Christmas
Professor Mikey's annual holiday mixtape is a CHILL theme this year, with music from all genres providing a soundtrack for peace and fun.

Bought by KHEN-LP, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, KMXT, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
HOB Radio: Father's Day Special
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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Give your Dad the Blues for Father's Day!

Bought by WSLR, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB-FM, KUMD, KFOK-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
HOB Radio: Mother's Day
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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A tribute to women of the Blues

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WGBH Radio Boston, KHEN-LP, WVAS, KEOS and more


  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Amongst the Ruins
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: The courtyard for the violently insane, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, NH, Credit: Christopher Payne
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 07:34
End of World in 2012?
From: Merle Kessler
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The Mayans said that the world will end in 2012. Maybe.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:26