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Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Eva Gay
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 18:19
220226 FM Radio Challenges AM Radio's Orthodoxy
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Norman Thrasher of the Royal Serenaders Cuts Loose
We feature the very first rock and roll songs but only those you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because by removing the overwhel...

Bought by KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:06
  • Purchases: 5
Radio's First Announcer interviewed
From: JAMES MEHRLING
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On the centennial of the first US commercial broadcast, this is a rebroadcast of an interview with its announcer, recorded 65 years later, in 1985,...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 07:44
A White's Supremacist's Journey Out of Hate and Whales
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A White's Supremacist's Journey Out of Hate. Topic 2: Dead Or Alive, Whales Give As Much As They Take From Their Ocean Environments.

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 1
Voting, Indigenous Languages, and Wildlife
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Should Felons Be Allowed to Vote? Topic 2: Photography is Capturing the Faces of the Last Remaining Speakers of Indigenous Languages. Topi...

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 51:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Far Side, Feral Pigs, and Tree Thieves
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: The Far Side's Enduring Popularity. Topic 2: Feral Pigs are Destroying Wildlife. Topic 3: How to Catch a Tree Thief: Timber Poaching in th...

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 1
ANGER
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Older, Middle & Younger generation guests discussing how ANGER has evolved over time.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:25
Making an American Folk Song: Children, Go Where I Send Thee
From: Peter Winne
Caption: The Fairfield Four at home in Tennessee
The ancient origins of an American gospel classic,"Children, Go Where I Send Thee," are told through archival recordings from The Library of Congre...

Bought by WUTC


  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 38:49
  • Purchases: 1
LTR 10th Anniversary Special
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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The 10th Anniversary special edition episode is here. Hosted by LTR's own Susi, this episode covers a wide range of international & cultural topics...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:32
Excerpt from City Council Member Steven Volan's Talk "Gownsburg"
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Steven Volan speaks on it from Bloomington City Council/.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 18:04
The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism
From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts
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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
Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Nila Mack
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
Radio Retrospective: George Burns Loves Gracie Allen
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: George Burns and Gracie Allen
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
Radio Retrospective: Radio at War
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Frank Sinatra being interview during World War II, Credit: Wikipedia
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
Radio Retrospective: Rod Serling
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Rod Serling, Credit: Wikipedia
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
Radio Retrospective: The First Woman of Sound Effects
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Ora Nichols (left) and the CBS Sound Effects Team, Credit: Wikipedia
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
Making Contact’s 20th Anniversary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A 20th anniversary edition of Making Contact. We hear the story of the program’s creation by volunteers, and how this little radio show became part...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Their Way
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week, we’re talking to people trying to find their place. Whether it be an independent artist in saturated music industry, a person struggling...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue: "Batman and Other Stories"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we look underneath the cape and the cowl, learn about makeshift furniture and uncover a whole lot more culture in the T...

Bought by KSRQ and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 2
Culture Queue: "We're Roughing It"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we leave the comfort of Radio K's studios for some fresh air and exercise. We begin with a report from Producer Noel Cl...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue: "Free Press and Curl"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we take you outside your comfort zone to deliver stories from fringe society. Producer Mitch Skinner returns from San D...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
Quick Queue: Rural Minnesota
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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By Mark Sheely. Just an hour north of the Twin Cities and already the towering pines and sparkling lakes begin to fill the scenery. A giant walleye...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1
Quick Queue: Sherlock Holmes Pt. 2
From: Radio K
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By Mark Sheely. Culture Queue brings you Part Two and the conclusion of our radio play adaptation, The Immortal Ms. Sherlock Holmes. Will Holmes ou...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
Culture Queue: "Sherlock Holmes Pt. 2"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week from Culture Queue, we're keen as mustard to bring you the thrilling conclusion of our play from across the pond. Join Sherlock, Moriarty...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 24:28
Culture Queue: "Twin Cities Pride"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we join in Radio K's annual celebration of the Twin Cities Pride Parade. Our GLBTA show starts with reporter Emma Nelso...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 1