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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 28
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Shall Furnish Medicine Finale and a story from above the Arctic Circle.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 25
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Episodes from two of Wyoming Public Media’s Award-winning podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 24
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about resilience.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Surviving The Bataan Death March (Narration by Jack Doepke)
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by WWNO, WITF, WABE, KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 20
The Untold Story of Promise Neighborhood on Juneteenth, the FULL Public Forum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:10:53
MIDNIGHT IN THE ASYLUM CEMETERY
From: Diane Ladley
Series: Hist-eerie
Caption: Image is an actual photo taken by a ghost tour guest inside the asylum cemetery. Could this be the infamous "Gassy Ghost"?
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
Sol (Remembering The Hyatt Disaster)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
Project #9
From: Joanne DeVault
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This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:58
The Legacy of Massive Resistance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, WFHB, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Legacy of Massive Resistance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WNYC, WRIR, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WJAB and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 10
MARRYING OUT PART 1 - NOT IN FRONT OF THE ALTAR
From: Siobhan McHugh
Caption: John Haynes, a Protestant, from Sydney, Australia, was cut out of three wills for marrying Helen, a Catholic, in 1962, Credit: John and Helen Haynes
Mixed marriages - family fatwas and ruptured romance due to religious bigotry in Australia, told through compelling personal stories. Winner, GOLD ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:20
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 19
Martha Washington (Last Passenger Pigeon), September 1, 1914
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, the Third Generation.
From: sivan raviv
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A three-part series about the impact of the Holocaust on grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, today's third generation.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2008
  • Length: 30:27
Buffalo Commons
From: Long Haul Productions
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The American Prairie Foundation is working to reintroduce thousands of bison and other native species to parts of Montana, with the hopes of luring...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Yellowstone Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 30:23
  • Purchases: 4
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1