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Too hot, too cold, just right. Americans may differ on where to set the dial, but they agree air conditioning is integral to modern life, a phenome...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 04:34
How did the mythic western cowboy learn to yodel?
The unlikely history of voice breaking in American music, and what it says about us.
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 31:31
Cannabis in Israel is a booming business, and through the unlikely story of Amos Silver, the Israeli 'Green Giant,' we take a deep dive into the wo...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 40:42
- Purchases: 1
Within the historic walls of Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore, Maryland, you’re just as likely to hear a rousing polka band as sacred organ music....
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 11, 2019
- Length: 23:04
- Purchases: 1
A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Animals love each other too.
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Some kids dream of going to the moon or playing for the Yankees. Ariel Harpaz had a seemingly more attainable goal in mind: to get his picture up o...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 20:49
Poor young New York couple wrestle with buying each other secret Christmas gifts. First published on Dec 10 1905.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 14, 2016
- Length: 19:29
- Purchases: 1
Business travel can be exhilarating unless you have a ghost phobia.
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 12:36
College girl goes wild and learns important lesson along the way.
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 11:16
A Lebanese startup's journey through the nation's first accelerator and the Central Bank Circular 331 funds.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 20:47
- Purchases: 1
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 1
The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...
Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
Travel to Metropolis, IL., the official hometown of Superman, the Man of Steel.
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 06:35
A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 17:38
Artist Madi Diaz talks about the first time she got on stage.
- Added: Sep 19, 2013
- Length: 03:38
Of our five senses, sound and taste might not seem to have that much in common. But if you ever find yourself at a fast food joint that blasts the...
- Added: May 12, 2012
- Length: 05:12
In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 01:00:03
Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named C...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 18:51
One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 17:54
- Added: Dec 14, 2011
- Length: 14:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 01:42
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: :47
An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.
- Added: Sep 06, 2010
- Length: 08:04
