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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
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
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
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
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
For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 2
Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting guns and shooting drugs for h...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
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
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.
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Arthur Miller's powerful drama of a family in denial.
- Added: Dec 13, 2010
- Length: 01:57:55
- Purchases: 6
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...
- Added: Oct 26, 2010
- Length: 57:48
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 28:58
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
Alena Hromadkova remembers the day that The Soviet Union invaded her country, Czechoslovakia.
- Added: Jul 23, 2009
- Length: 05:04
