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Clifford Brown
From: KUT
Series: Views and Brews Liner Notes
Caption: Clifford Brown
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
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Chapter 24 - An Adirondack Summer
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:05
Chapter 16 - The Shaping of a Socialist
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:55
A Story from the Bar
From: Andy Otto
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:35
YOU CAN SEE THE MOON (Part Five)
From: Chris TEMPLETON
Series: 'YOU CAN SEE THE MOON' (Drama Series 5 x 15')
Caption: You Can See the Moon, Credit: Chris TEMPLETON
A married Jewish couple are abruptly separated by the KGB when the husband is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike double

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 13:47
YOU CAN SEE THE MOON (Part Two)
From: Chris TEMPLETON
Series: 'YOU CAN SEE THE MOON' (Drama Series 5 x 15')
Caption: 'You Can See the Moon', Credit: Producer Chris TEMPLETON
This touching dramatised reconstruction, is based on the extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian Jews living in Stalin’s Russia.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 15:21