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The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:41
Brooklyn is constantly changing. This episode takes a look at the changes on just one street in one neighborhood: Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, whi...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 27:02
30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 21:05
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
From: john rabe
Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
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
This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 26:31
Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 23:26
- Purchases: 7
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...
Bought by WORT, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 3
In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:21
The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...
Bought by WMTNradio, Troy Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 3
Host Sara Fishko considers composers who perform their own work.
- Added: Jan 29, 2008
- Length: 06:53
What if the government wanted to blow up thermonuclear bombs near your house -- and forgot to tell you about it.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPFA, and KSUT
- Added: Jun 25, 2006
- Length: 14:33
- Purchases: 4
