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Two episodes from two of WPR’s award-winning podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR is a series of free public programs featuring stories about the people, places and history of our lower Russian River communi...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
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1894 Cazadero train wreck, Gaye Lebaron on Black Bart, the restoration of Duncans Mills, the History of Pole Mountain Lookout, and more!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 57:30
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Kathleen Lindsen interviews Ron Sheckler on "Fat Kat Kountry" (another awesome KFOK radio show)...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 26:46
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'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 38:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Producer Michael May discovers prototype designs for washing machines from the 1800s, which not only scrubbed clothes, but churned butter and made ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Harvey Barberg of Cokato Stands By the One-room Cabin Where Ancestors Spent Their First Winter
For the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series on Minnesota Finns. This is our last segment and perhaps ironically -- o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
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Today's privacy concerns with cell phones seem trivial when we look back at the world of open telephone wires.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:38
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While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:11
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Chris Niskanen with his sauna, Credit: Britt Aamodt
The first Finnish immigrants to arrive in Minnesota settled here sometime around the middle of the 19th century and the close of the Civil War. Min...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Slovak Women
Jan (Yahn) Gadzo (God-zoh) left his home in Slovakia in 1969 and landed in the Iron Range town of Chisholm. Every year Jan and his family observe ...

Bought by WGZS and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 20:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Voices of past and present residents of an Ojibwe mixed blood community, near Lake Superior, tell of their survival for six generations in a valley...

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Mar 13, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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An exploration into the events that sparked a journey.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Aug 05, 2007
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Poem about New York City's Potters Field

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
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The story of Sólheimar,a village in Iceland where mentally disabled persons live together with people without a handicap.

Bought by WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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President Jimmy Carter builds daughter Amy an environmentally-friendly tree house on the White House grounds.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
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Raymomd claims his birthright and shares his personal journey and native history.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2004
  • Length: 20:40