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Caption: Louis Armstrong
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 49:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Julie Harris, JoBeth Williams, and Lindsay Crouse star in Nicolas Wright's work about the brilliant, controversial therapist.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR-FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Acoma Pueblo
Chasity Salvador, a senior at the Santa Fe Indian School performs a spoken word poem responding to her experience of sexism on her Native American ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
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An in studio interview with the accomplished songwriter who is the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
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The "30 second soundbite" (often less than that, actually) is a broadcast news staple. But these soundbites often fail to convey needed informa...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:28
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While one guy tries make his mark as a man, another tries to erase the mark that represents a life of mistakes and regret, most of it spent in prison.

Bought by Aspen Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Linda’s debut novel, "The Sixth Station," is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
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Mitch Skinner goes to San Diego Comic-Con and talks to men who write well-rounded female characters.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:04
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Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 182...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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An exploration of the many ways in which genetics and new technologies are changing the world we live in and challenging long-held assumptions.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:37
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
Caption: Philip Levine
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry. He...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
Caption: Mark Strand
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
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This week: all the things being said about the sequester...including the best explanation for the sequester that I've heard.....the gun debate is s...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 57:01
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Folk roots singer songwriter Joshua Davis joins Soulseeds Radio for an inspiring episode in which host Ian Lawton suggests listeners simply live th...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Judith Gardner reads on Tales from the South
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
Caption: Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk was an original voice in the shaping the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano playing continue t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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If you've paid any attention to the latest political discourse on subjects ranging from fed spending to cabinet posts to policing Wall Street...the...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:50
Caption: Marjorie Heins, Credit: photo by Catherine Boalch
In her new book, civil liberties lawyer Majorie Heins tells the stories of teachers and professors who resisted the communist witch hunt of the 195...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1