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Caption: David Vanderhoop, Credit: MV Times
Guests include: Vineyard news of the week with Vineyard Gazette managing editor Bill Eville plus…David Two Arrows Vanderhoop and Matt Scinto.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:48
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with a variety of Minnesota State Fair exhibitor...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 36:45
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The National Blues Museum is located in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:12
  • Purchases: 1
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This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:40
Caption: Texas Folklife x Akins High Listening Party flyer, Credit: Jennifer (Amora) Arriaga
Akins High School has an annual fall festival called Blue and Gold Night. It's a night with many activities, including a pig kissing "contest." Pro...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:19
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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:12
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This 6-minute sampler provides a taste of the history, literature, and legacy of Route 66 as discussed in the 3-hour-long radio documentary series ...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: Andre Paultre wears a carnival mask in Jacmel, Haiti., Credit:  Wynne Muscatine Graham / WWNO
WWNO’s original history podcast TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns next week. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson traveled to Haiti this past summer and wil...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:44
Caption: Wm. & Charity Harris are the great grandparents of Sandra Green Thomas. Wm.'s parents, Betsy Ware & Samuel Harris, were two of the 272 people sold by Georgetown University to two Louisiana plantations in 1838. , Credit:  Sandra Green Thomas
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history, and an a...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:21
Caption: Healy Hall at Georgetown University, Credit:  Georgetown University
TriPod: New Orleans @300 returns with the first in a two-part series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history. In...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:50
Caption: Purdue Boilermakers, Credit: Purdue
We’ll hear music about trains, and learn some little known facts and myths about Purdue on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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We discuss diseases and syndromes that distort reality, past societal failures with mental health as well as the brave story of young Nellie Bly. W...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 32:39
  • Purchases: 1
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From the discovery of a Chicken Pox vaccine to Louis Armstrong’s influence on music to the numerous ways that women have fought for equal rights ov...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
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Your online dating profile is the latest spin on a 300-year-old tradition of advertising yourself in order to find a spouse, a sexual partner, or s...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 41:08
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Let's travel radio explores Italy and the year of the culture.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:05
Caption: Bobby Pickles, Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby and Martini podcast from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY, with Dr. David Orenstein, Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY system senior ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:26:32
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Michael from Let's Travel radio explains the wonders of provence france. With full detail's from food to music , art and tourist attractions. This...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:29
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
In this installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People, the first of ten programs being produced for Northern Community...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, KKWE Niijii Radio, and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 57:17
  • Purchases: 4
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In this installment, the topic is the notorious Wannsee Conference.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
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In this episode, Conor takes a tour of the Mormon Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair with Nate Kogan.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 07:15
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
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It’s not a town or township, but when Finnish-American families moved there 95 years ago it became a vibrant community that exists to this day. Ol...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 23:36
  • Purchases: 2