• 2007
  • 2:59
  • USA

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My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Loss and Woe

By Mia Lobel

This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation. (more)

Shortdocs_07
  • 2008
  • 35:27
  • USA

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Wellington, Texas

By Katherine Wells

When you enter Wellington, Texas, one of the first things you see is a large billboard that says: Welcome to Wellington: Great Past, Bright Future. (more)

Wellington_pidgey
  • 2002
  • 8:26
  • USA

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Hard-Hearted Hannah

By Joni Murphy

Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hoose describes growing up as a part of her family's folk band, with all its healthy snacks, archetypal psychodramas, and oddly compelling songs. (more)

Hannah_pidgey
  • 1999
  • 5:46
  • USA

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The End

By Sara Fishko

Endings in radio used to serve a purpose: they used to signal to a live audience that the time to applaud was near. But this has changed now, prompting Sara Fishko to take a look at the outdated “ending” and to piece together some favorite final moments for a Big Finish. (more)

The_end2_newsite
  • 2012
  • 58:00
  • USA

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Re:sound #164 The Shaken, Not Stirred Show

By Multiple producers

This hour: As the James Bond franchise celebrates its 50th year, we get at what's been driving him all this time - the beat. (more)

James_bond
  • 2010
  • 9:23
  • Germany

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Hong Kong Song

By Jens Jarisch

The sounds of the city resonate as Hong Kong comes to life through audio mosaic and three voices: a traveler remembers, newscasters rattle off facts and statistics, a young woman recalls a legend from her fading childhood. (more)

Hks_pidgey
  • 2008
  • 3:06
  • USA

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The Searchers (Based on a True Story)

By David P. Earle

Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved. (more)

Shortdocs08_winner
  • 2009
  • 35:37
  • Australia

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Listening to Ghosts

By Tom Morton

In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever. (more)

Simple_radio_schematic_2
  • 2001
  • 5:39
  • USA

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Tupperware

By The Kitchen Sisters

In this nostalgic documentary, tag along with Tupperware dealer Lucky Laurel into the world of Tupperware conventions, regional meetings, and of course, those signature Tupperware parties. (more)

Tupperware
  • 2007
  • 3:00
  • USA

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The Mousetrap Enthusiasts

By Jamie Dell'Apa

My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers . . . (more)

Shortdocs_07
  • 2006
  • 58:00
  • USA

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Re:sound #59: The Music and Memory Show

By Various producers

This hour: music, memory, lost love, and John Denver. (more)

Flightseries_4
  • 2010
  • 59:30
  • USA

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Re:sound #132: The Lost Show

By Various

This hour: looking for the intangible. What's lost and what might be found.
Co-produced by Jacob Anderson. (more)

Old_map_compass
  • 2012
  • 3:00
  • USA

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Ten Daughters One Dairy, The Brown Family Farm

By Emily Newton

The Brown Family farm was run by ten daughters. (more)

Sd12_brown_newton
  • 2008
  • 56:34
  • UK

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Like Blackpool Went Through Rock

By Sara Parker

In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before. (more)

Rb
  • 2004
  • 9:58
  • Russia

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File Under Soviet Bizarre: Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electro-Musical Instruments

By Charles Maynes

It was the closest thing to Muzak in Russia. This is the story of the rise, fall, and sudden resurgence of the music that dominated television and radio airwaves and whose spacey sounds made it the favorite of the USSR's cosmonauts. (more)

Mescherin2
  • 2002
  • 8:15
  • USA

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Peggy Lee Appreciation

By Karen Michel

A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger. (more)

Pegyylee_pidgey
  • 2012
  • 3:00
  • USA

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Her Beautiful Brown Burden

By Ashley Kim

Little did I know that my neighbor has a special gift, which I'd like to call a beautiful brown burden. (more)

Sd12_brown_kim
  • 2008
  • 2:58
  • USA

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I Would Like to Introduce You to My Mom

By Molly Adams

This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells. (more)

Shortdocs08
  • 2012
  • 3:00
  • USA

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Our Blacktop

By Noah Vandercook

A recollection of simpler times with the friends I grew up with. (more)

Black_vandercook
  • 2002
  • 2:13
  • Scotland

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Electronic Samples Cut-Up

By Mark Vernon

A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England. (more)

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