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The End of Smallpox

From: Radio Diaries

Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO

Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Almost Astronaut

From: Joe Richman

The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

Episode 37: What Gets Told

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

EP138 Excello Records' Two Slims: Slim Harpo & Lightnin' Slim

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label

WRM01 The Influential Voice of the '30s

From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute

A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today

I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)

From: Making Contact

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful

For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR

Episode 77: The Escape

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...

Bought by PRX Remix

The Working Tapes: Phone Operator

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Identical Strangers

From: Radio Diaries

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix

Busman's Holiday

From: Radio Diaries

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

Off-Ramp Presents: Jim Tully, father of hardboiled fiction, the "most hated man in Hollywood"

From: john rabe

Caption: Jim Tully at an MGM soundstage, Credit: MGM

Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.

Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more

The Mandela Tapes

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUHF, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WCBE and more

Casa Rico

From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York

Lenny Rico and wife Cindy talk about inheriting the longest running Italian-American radio show from Lenny’s parents, Emelino and Mary Rico. Their...

Si Se Puede

From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story

An oral history account of the successful workers' sit-in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in December of 2008, the first Ameri...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis

Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue

From: Joyride Media

Exploration of Dennis Wilson's solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue" and rare, unreleased "Bambu" sessions.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KFAI Minneapolis and more

The History of This I Believe - Pledge Special 1 (newscast compatible)

From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe

Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.

Bought by WEZU, Marfa Public Radio, KJZZ, and WCBU

The History of This I Believe

From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe

Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, KZYX, Marfa Public Radio and more

Kentucky and the War

From: Down to Earth Productions

A documentary exploring the lives of Kentuckians in combat and on the home-front during World War II.

Bought by WMMT, WEKU, and WKMS

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 1. The First Jews

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Their long climb from poverty to prominence and prosperity in the New World

Bought by WCPN, KWIT, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 2. The Streets Were Paved with Gold: A Journey Through The Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants found a harsh life and no gold on the Lower East Side. The program describes aspects of daily immigrant life including tenements,...

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WXXI Rochester and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 3. Becoming Americans: A Journey Through the Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Yiddish Theater - Culture and religion of the Old Country abandoned - The Triangle Shirtwaist fire - Assimilation into mainstream America

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 4. White Christmas: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and George Gershwin reinvented American popular music

Bought by WCPN, KCSM, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 5. Over the Rainbow: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Yiddish-speaking moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn created Hollywood, and an idealized, small-town Protestant America that never was.

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, New England Public Media and more

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