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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
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
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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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 17:37
  • Purchases: 4
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.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 14:18
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Songs related to Space, Stars and Satellites

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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This episode is about songs that reference summer.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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This episode deals with songs about birds or have bird(s) in the title or subject

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 26:57
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This is the LONG version of the 10 Min Sound Byte - Songs about Fireworks

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 25:22
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In this episode, we explore songs about fireworks.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
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A week in the life of a woman in Chicago attempting to escape a physically and emotionally abusive marriage.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 2
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The term ‘ethnomusicology’ was coined in 1959 by Dutch academic, Jaap Kunst. Put simply, it is the social and cultural study of music. Jo Barratt ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 21:33
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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


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Troops aboard the General Nelson M. Walker, Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project
Sound-rich stories from and about a Vietnam War-era troopship, in the voices of people whose lives were affected by the journey to war.

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WGCU, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 29
Caption: German POW Otto Schwingel and Linda Anderson on Anderson's farm near Florence, S.C., Credit: courtesy of Ingebourg Schwingel
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 89
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1966, Credit: AFP/Getty Images
This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 49:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Join Gloria Steinem, Jane Wyatt, Snow White, Lucille Ball, Rex Harrison, Diana Ross & the Supremes,George Burns & Gracie Allen, James Brown and a c...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:12
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Steven Bickell hosts New Artists: Featuring Mn Artist/Musician Michael L-5 Leitheiser

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 35:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dudley Randall
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:27
  • Purchases: 2