KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 Pieces

Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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Clarence Kinne had a little photography studio in Winona. But in the Great War, he was a soldier first and a photographer only when the Army said so.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Before Red Wing was a byword for pottery, there was John Paul, a German immigrant who couldn’t help noticing the fine clay deposits on his farm.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Gao Hong had gone to Carleton College to manage recitals and guest artists. But students were interested in the pipa, the Chinese instrument she’d ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art wanted to find out more about its mummy, Lady Tashat. So it brought her to Mayo for an NMR scan.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Luis Alvarez, 1928 graduate of Rochester High School, and his students at Berkeley had been given the task of using physics and the images from the...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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It was August 1964 and the hottest band in the world, the Beatles, had yet to give a concert in Minnesota. But Rochester kids at least had the oppo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Dr. John Samuel Lucas was giving a talk on the history of jazz to Winona’s Portia Club. And it just so happened that he’d been a part of Minnesota’...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Rochester’s first TV station, KROC, had only been on the air for a few months. Now the state’s first ever TV station, KSTP, was accusing it of stea...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Emil Liers had been living with otters in his house since the 1920s. So he had lots of stories to draw from when he published his first book, An Ot...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Teresa Lucero was in Winona to go to school. But the audience at her talk for the Who’s New Club had gathered to hear about how she’d survived the ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30