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Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
How modern policing problems are connected to a wide range of historical issues.
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
An unusual request for vinyl from management, we can do that. The most famous jazzman on record, Duke Ellington, begins a tour of blues, acid and s...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 3
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 4
Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 58:08
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
During our short time on Earth we humans have created a lot of stuff. Some of it's life-altering, like the device you’re using right now and some o...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 39:39
- Purchases: 2
For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 13:25
- Purchases: 2
Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...
Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 5
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, we explore songs about fireworks.
- Added: Sep 19, 2014
- Length: 09:58
A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:28
This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 30:34
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever wondered how chicken nuggets are made? Or what propylene glycol monostearate, monocalcium phosphate, or other listed ingredients are ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 27:24
- Purchases: 4
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:29
This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:40
This week in history (March 23-March 29) takes a look back at Senator Ted Kennedy's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in New York's primary on Ma...
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 04:40
Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
From: Andy Moore
Episode 10 is dedicated to Andy's favorite film festival in San Francisco, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. You’ll hear his conversations wi...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 45:42
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
Generational discussion on Opportunity...then and now
- Added: Dec 08, 2013
- Length: 29:00
