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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
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 05:15
To the uninitiated, Mr. Butch was just another homeless man on the streets of Boston. To those living in Allston, however, he was their wayfaring p...
- Added: Oct 12, 2011
- Length: 09:34
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
Families that play music together stay together. The Joyce family on Swan's Island made their own entertainment.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 04:45
Of course ice cream is a treat at any time for anyone, but it was awfully difficult to stock in any island store in the 1930’s. Marguerite Staples...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:31
The softball players on Swan's Island were more than a team. They were a family.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 04:41
Taste the fruit of a tree that has a placenta buried beneath it... it's tart and crisp. Learn about how the placenta, which connects mother and chi...
- Added: Aug 27, 2011
- Length: 08:04
Marc Gretchel, the owner of the Twist and Shout music club drops in to recall the music and magic of his club.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 23, 2011
- Length: 02:57:33
- Purchases: 1
Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima is about pride and assimilation, faith and doubt. This half-hour program includes readings by actor Cheech Marin a...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, KMUN, KUPR low power FM, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 8
A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 1
On this edition of Don't Cha Know, Richard Hammergren WSU jazz WSU professor and professional musician stops by to update us on The Black Tie Jazz ...
- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 28:30
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.
- Added: Jun 05, 2011
- Length: 01:00:03
Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
PRODUCIDO EN ESPANOL. Las productoras juveniles Anai Fuentes y Carla Roman describen el proceso de la boda Mexicana entrevistando a sus madres. P...
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 06:27
A man decides to leave his unfaithful ex-girlfriend and their daughter.
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 03:33
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Buffalo native Jillian Mertz talks about how the songs of Jackson C. Frank, a little known folk musician from her hometown, helped her understand t...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 07:30
It's one thing to make it to living in your nineties, and another to get to that age and still live independently at home. Bob and Terry Rohe have ...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 06:54
- Purchases: 4
A story about a family...and pretzels.
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 07:52
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
The real life version of "Field Of Dreams" takes place in Alpine, Texas in the 1940s and 50s. This is a story about a man, his baseball field and ...
Bought by KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, KMXT, and KUT
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
Commemorating Veteran's Day with this edition of Patterns in Music—a fitting musical tribute to those who served.
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 01:40:15
- Purchases: 2
