Each spring the Public Radio Exchange releases the results of the “mostiest” stations, producers, and listeners for the previous calendar year. It’s like a zeitgeist — only funkier! And once again many of our clients won ‘prestigeous’ Zeitfunk Awards!

For the second year in a row, The Vinyl Cafe was the Most Licensed Series, and Most Licensed Group.

The highly popular Canadian program hosted by master storyteller Stuart McLean has been steadily gaining carriage in the states and is now heard on over 100 stations across the U.S.

Fred Flaxman, the creator, writer, producer, editor and host of the classical music series Compact Discoveries was the 2nd most licensed producer for the year.

Aaron Schwartz’s one-hour documentary special, Chasing the Crescent Moon: The Story of Dr. Frempong and Sickle Cell Disease, an inspiring story of one physician and the lives he has touched, was the Most Licensed Youth-Produced Piece for the second year in a row.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

LiveHopeLove, produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens, has won a 2010 Gracie Award for Outstanding Documentary – Public.

Read more about Stephanie’s win here.

LiveHopeLove is a one hour special that looks at the universal problems faced by people with HIV/AIDS, through the specific lens of Jamaica, where almost no one is unaffected by the disease. What are the unique realities of this small island nation that set its HIV/AIDS sufferers apart from those in the rest of the world? Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine how the disease has shaped their lives. Dawes’ poems, inspired by their stories, take this documentary into deep realms of the heart.

Congratulations to both of our amazing & talented clients for winning a Gracie!

Prime Time Radio presents an irresistible look at the music and musicians of the drink houses and juke joints of the rural South.

Host Barry Yeoman takes us into the lives of colorful artists named Captain Luke, Guitar Gabriel, Boo Hanks, Eddie Tigner, and Little Freddie King…working men in their 60s, 70s and 80s, who have written, sung and played songs about their world all their lives.

Folklorist/guitarist Tim Duffy met these little known bluesmen, many of whom lived in desperate poverty.  He formed the Music Maker Relief Foundation and through a record label and concerts, he presents them more widely, even taking them overseas, where they caused a sensation.  The foundation now provides them with some of the necessities that most Americans take for granted.

This unforgettable hour of tales and tunes is not only perfect for Black History Month but a program your listeners will want to hear any time of year!

Available FREE on PRX, Content Depot, Downloads, or CDs

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Prime Time Radio presents  Before and After Stonewall:  A Talk with Dr. Frank Kameny
(84, activist, historian and raconteur)

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the [Stonewall] riots as a reason to “commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans”.

Frank Kameny, Ph.D., age 84, is acknowledged as the founding father of the modern gay rights movement. In this rollicking conversation, he takes on all issues from gay marriage to the impact of AIDS on the gay rights movement.

“The most momentous single Gay Movement event occurred at the end of June, 1969, when the “Stonewall Rebellion” in New York…converted what had been a tiny, struggling gay movement into the vast grass-roots movement which it now is.

(…) At the start of the Sixties gays were completely invisible. By the end, and especially after Stonewall, we were seen everywhere: in entertainment, education, religion, politics, business, elsewhere and everywhere.”

Frank Kameny, Letter to Tom Brokaw

LISTEN to the program; WATCH video

AVAILABLE (June 23rd): Content Depot, PRX, ORDER CD ;  COST: FREE;  LENGTH: 1 hour

A Special edition of Prime Time Radio

A one-hour weekly interview program that focuses on the wide-ranging interests and concerns of Americans 40 and older. Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert is a skilled interviewer and acute listener whose thorough preparation surprises and delights his guests.

Treat your listeners to a powerful and unique half-hour this Memorial Day

• A double portrait of German sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), who created The Grieving Parents in memory of her son killed in WWI, and contemporary American-German sculptor Suse Lowenstein, creator of an equally monumental work honoring her son lost in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. For both women, their work (18 years for Kathe, 14 years for Suse) becomes a pathway through and beyond grief, affirming the transforming power of art.

• A dual creation of storyteller Helen Engelhardt and sound artist Marjorie Van Halteren.

• The third program in a trilogy exploring the themes of war, loss, memory, and regeneration. The other two half hours, Unquiet Graves and Yesterday and Forever, are also available.

LENGTH: 26 min 30 Sec
AVAILABLE: Free CD & PRX (134 points)