All Pieces for Guy Rathbun
Ruth Etting arrived in Chicago at the age of 17. She enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied costume design.
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
By the mid 1920s, Chicago had become, not only a hot bed of jazz, but the home of a thriving bootleg business. Hundreds of speakeasy’s sprung up ov...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...
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- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
They called themselves the Clicquot Club Eskimos. They were sponsored by the soda company specializing in ginger ail. Under the leadership of virtu...
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- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Writer Helen Thorpe provides a detailed account of what happened to the three women who served in the military during the last decade.
- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
What do frog jumping, transatlantic telephones and sliced bread have in common? 1928. This program is a very brief overview of the music heard duri...
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- Added: Aug 02, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
After spending eleven years in Africa as bureau chief for The Associated Press, Chris Tomlinson returned home to Texas. Seeing oppression and apart...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the latter days of the Golden Age of steamboats, many musicians plied their trade with the orchestras traveling the Mississippi. Memphis and St....
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- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
America has a shortage of organs for transplant. Iran has abundance. That’s the reason many wealthy American’s turn to Iran for help when they’re s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were two very important factors in the formation of jazz in the 1920s. They performed together with the California Ramblers ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
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Author Julia Schopick introduces four lifesaving treatments that have been effectively treating, and in some cases curing, people for 25 to 90 year...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When we think of the Big Bands, it’s most often in terms of the Swing Era. Understandable, since those sweet and hot orchestra’s dominated the 1930...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In a position that some will find controversial, Jennifer Michael Hecht argues that suicide is quite simply wrong, from a secular point of view. To...
- Added: Jul 10, 2014
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 2
When Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines met in 1927, it was immediate bond. A short time later, Louis disbanded his Hot Five group that was formed for ...
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- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
To say that London was not known as a mecca for early jazz is an understatement, however, Britain adopted America’s music very quickly.
The Savoy ...
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- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:31
A one-of-a-kind blend of art, nature, and conservaton, Jason deCaires Taylor provides a dazzling photographic tour through his under ocean sculptur...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 12:07
