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SANTANA: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WARRIOR
From: Joyride Media
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Carlos Santana explores his extensive catalog to highlight tracks that reflect his deep spirituality.

Bought by CBC Inside the Music, KREV-LP, KRZA, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
Home Again
From: SCAD Radio
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Student returns to hurricane ravaged hometown

  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:52
Unpredictable Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Marc Steiner's personal essay of the trip he organized with three veterans to return to Vietnam 30 years after the fall of Saigon.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, WFCR, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
A Map of The Sea
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KFAI, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland, KUSP, The Nature Podcast and more


  • Added: May 04, 2006
  • Length: 14:57
  • Purchases: 6
Gerda and Olcott
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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A vacation in San Francisco, a flea market, and the chance purchase of old love letters.

Bought by WTIP and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2005
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 2
Out of The Ashes
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Mastin's store was once the heart of the community where you could buy a bag of flour, a pair of boots, a side of beef and a flannel nightgown all ...

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Secrets of Stanley Mission
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For Tom Kernaghan, all the family stories begin at an old trading post and Mission church.

Bought by WTIP and KSUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Caboose
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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On a visit to Newfoundland, Helen Forsey is smitten by an abandoned caboose.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome To My World
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For a young Canadian child, the battles of the Second World War are so far in the past that they might as well be from another world.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
All Coming Years of Peaceful Love
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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The history of the twentieth century told through a love story, a mandolin, and an 81-year-old husband?s guide to good sex?

Bought by KUT, Moab Public Radio, KFAI, WTIP, KZYX and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:18
  • Purchases: 6
Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
From: Joyride Media
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A one-hour music intensive radio special tracing the history of Jazz guitar from 1906 through today; hosted by Les Paul.

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, Red River Radio Network, WRNC-LP, KMUW, KGLT and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 22
Chasing Love
From: Miguel Macias
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An exploration of the connections between romantic love and late capitalism.

Bought by KUT, PRX to iTunes, KCUR, 90.5 WSNC, WKNC-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 59:46
  • Purchases: 10
Stories of Love and Marriage at the Towers
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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Stories of love, marriage and memories at 1,377 feet.

Bought by KUT, KVNF, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 9
Another Lousy Day
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A critically-acclaimed story detailing one man's quest to find the author of two diaries from 1960 and 1961 that he found in a thrift store.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio, WYBC, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 4
Kathleen McDonough: A Directors Take on Making An Historical Documentary
From: Talking History
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Katheleen McDonough discusses the making of historical documentaries.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
Sinking of the Reuben James
From: Adam Allington
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Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Traditions of Brown-Forman's Kentucky Bourbon and it's Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson
From: WFPL News
Series: Kentucky Works
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A day in the career of Brown-Forman Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson

  • Added: May 24, 2004
  • Length: 09:01
Making the Louisville Slugger
From: WFPL News
Series: Kentucky Works
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The art of hand turning a Louisville Slugger baseball bat

  • Added: Apr 12, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
The Art and Craft of Blacksmithing with Lewis Meyer
From: WFPL News
Series: Kentucky Works
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the day in the life of a Kentucky blacksmith

  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
The Valentine 1955
From: Susan Barrett Price
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Society's problem with race relations is played out between 2 little girls on Valentines Day, 1955.

Bought by WAMC, WNCU, PRX Lovesick Stream, WNCU, WEPS and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 11