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21 The Conquering Engines: Industrial Revolution
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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The sounds of nature give way before the coming of the industrial din. Episode twenty-one of Noise: A Human History, ‘The Conquering Engines: Indus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 1
22 The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on medicine’s listening revolution - episode twenty-two of Noise: A Human History, ‘The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 2
23 The New Art of Listening
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How the Victorians learned to listen all over again. Episode twenty-three of Noise: A Human History, 'The New Art of Listening'.

Bought by KALW and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 2
26 Shell Shock
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Assistant producer Cathy FitzGerald on location in Flanders, France.
Soldiers in WW1 experienced a sonic onslaught. Professor David Hendy considers life under bombardment in episode twenty-six of Noise: A Human Histo...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 2
27 Radio Everywhere!
From: Matt Thompson
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Radio seemed like magic to begin with. Then the Nazis exploited its darker powers. Episode twenty-seven of Noise: A Human History, Radio Everywhere!'

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
28 Music While You Shop, Music While You Work
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How music can make us work, rest and play - episode twenty-eight of Noise: A Human History, 'Music While You Shop, Music While You Work'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 2
06 Epic Tales
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Orkney, Scotland
Epic tales could take days to perform, yet storytellers recited them from memory. David Hendy explains how ancient tales were remembered and passed...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 3
29 An Ever Noisier World
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on the sounds of revolution and war in episode twenty-nine of Noise: A Human History, ‘An Ever Noisier World'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 2
30 The Search for Silence
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Professor David Hendy considers the modern quest for quiet in episode thirty of Noise: A Human History, 'The Search for Silence'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:36
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: The First Minnesota Finns" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Harvey Barberg of Cokato Stands By the One-room Cabin Where Ancestors Spent Their First Winter
For the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series on Minnesota Finns. This is our last segment and perhaps ironically -- o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
All Mixed Up-Boston Marathon
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: April 15th, 2013
April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:47
"Finns In Minnesota: The 1907 Mesabi Range Strike" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Iron Ore Car
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Red Lake, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend during summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 10:12
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Saunas" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Chris Niskanen with his sauna, Credit: Britt Aamodt
The first Finnish immigrants to arrive in Minnesota settled here sometime around the middle of the 19th century and the close of the Civil War. Min...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "Montana Log Cabin Cafe"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
This Week in Texas Music History: Erbie Bowser
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Ike Reynolds
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of September (9/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped establish the first Baptist mus...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:43
The Bridge Guy
From: Amy Gastelum
Caption: John at the top of the north tower
John Mickiewicz maintains and operates the iconic WPA built Railroad Bridge that connects Cape Cod to the mainland over the Cape Cod Canal. He love...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
The 1992 LA Rebellion: Twenty Years Later
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13
Our History: Kaleva Hall - A history
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Kaleva Hall
Aila Ivonen talks with Scott Hall about the history of Kaleva Hall, a temperance hall in Virginia built in 1906.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Moments with Jazz Master, Von Freeman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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3 Moments with tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 10
Slovakian Easter Traditions
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Slovak Women
Jan (Yahn) Gadzo (God-zoh) left his home in Slovakia in 1969 and landed in the Iron Range town of Chisholm. Every year Jan and his family observe ...

Bought by WGZS and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 20:53
  • Purchases: 2
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
Jack Dunn (Discovered Babe Ruth), October 22, 1928
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Frank T. Hopkins (Hidalgo), November 11, 1951
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00