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Buried Alive? Katy the Kollector
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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What separates a collector from a hoarder? What do our rooms, be they messy or neat, say about us and our experiences?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
Protect Your Soda Rights
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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It is our patriotic duty to protect the God-given right to drink a soda of any size of our choosing.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:15
Hiding
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A series of strange people tell where they hide a familiar object.

  • Added: May 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
Lack of Proper Words
From: Sarah Boothroyd
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A study of the sounds people make to fill silence.

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru-Tasmanian Devils
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Sc.12: Epilogue
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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Omar and Kiki Go Home

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:23
Recycle Rhythms-Coke Can
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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A rhythmic riff on recycling

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Two Bach Encounters
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Classical Music in 60 Seconds(tm)
Caption: J.S. Bach
For any format: Use this 59 second drop-in for Bach's birthday (March 21) or any day as a drop-in, promo or billboard. Cellist Matt Haimovitz and t...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2009
  • Length: :59
Sc.10: The Hobo Jungle
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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Woody Mezmer Visits a Hobo Jungle

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:44
Sc.09: Constantinople
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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Porfirio Rubirosa Visits the Holy City of Byzantium

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
Sc.07: The Desert
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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A Trek Through the Anatolian Desert

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 02:34
Sc.04: Wood's Hole - A Phonecall
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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A message from a phonebooth in Anatolia...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:06
Sc.03: The Sewers of Paris
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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Porfirio Rubirosa makes a watery passage through the Paris sewer.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:43
Sc.02: At the Lab
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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Crisis in Wood's Hole... Woody sets out on his adventure...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:56
Sc.01: Prologue - Rubi's Car Crash
From: Christian Baskous
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
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Scene 1: A nighttime car accident in the Bois de Boulogne

  • Added: Sep 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:17
Overdosing on The Primary
From: Joel Brussell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What Can Happen if you Watch Too Much Media Coverage

  • Added: Mar 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
Fleas and Ticks and Little Doggey Ways Theater Presents "What Would You Like to See in a Lifetime Movie'
From: Joel Brussell
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Pretend on the street piece interviewing what people like to see in a lifetime movie

  • Added: Mar 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
If a Butterfly Flaps It's Wings A Polar Bear Gets a Hernia
From: Joel Brussell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Comic piece about interconnectivity of Things

  • Added: Mar 10, 2008
  • Length: 02:36
Short List - "I'm Away"
From: Jen Nathan
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A Short List inspired by modern life - Perfect for they day after a long vacation

  • Added: Feb 23, 2008
  • Length: 01:03
Calling Purgatory
From: Lee Ingalls
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Getting stuck on hold can feel like hell.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2007
  • Length: 01:29
Do You Like the Curtains?
From: Queen Mother Imakhu MuNefert
Series: Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People
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Imakhu, The Renegade Storyteller, gives homage to African American southern "hant" tales in this original, humorous, and eerie rendition of a true ...

Bought by KUT, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
Food
From: Joan Schuman
Series: Micro-Texts
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part of the audio sketch series Micro-Texts, exploring culture and technology.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:01
36 Meatballs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A meatball-eating contest story retold in a noisy restaurant.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:19
Will's Question
From: Terin Mayer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What would you do with a pint of blood you couldn't donate?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 01:50