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Valrhona was founded in 1922 by Albéric Guironnet in the small village of Tain L’Hermitage, France, and is now also based in Brooklyn, USA. The com...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
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Cacao was born in a bean-shaped area in the upper Amazon and is believed to have been grown and used—first, as a drink—in countries that now encomp...

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 24:01
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A special interview with Author Collin Woodard discussing his book, American Nations: A History of the 11 Regional Rival Cultures.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2017
  • Length: 51:26
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People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death just to see w...

Bought by ABC and KUER


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 24:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Mikael Cho is the co-founder and CEO of Crew, at one point in the business’s history, he says they were running straight towards a brick wall. They...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 08:16
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Lisa Johanon of Central Detroit Christian Listen and Learn from the great Lisa Johanon, for 22 years she has led Central Detroit Christian to larg...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 32:30
Caption: The SPLT Fares Team, Credit: SPLT
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise with Romy Gingras of Gingras Global visits Ford Field in Detroit, the home of mentorship technology program, Tech...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:44
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Oral historian Blanche Girouard talks to John Griffith-Jones about Ugandan missionary stamps and to Anne Willcocks about the Lindy hop

  • Added: Apr 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:41
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How does a toddler understand the differences between written words and pictures? Rebecca Treiman, professor of child developmental psychology, exp...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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Let's Travel! Radio explores how living, studying, teaching, praying in other cultures can expand not only one's own horizons but may also lead to ...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:04:14
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Dave Reynard (right), Credit: Ben Coletti
Bobby and Coletti podcast from a boat docked in Madeira Beach, Florida, with Dave Reynard, the “glass dildo king” - original inventor of the cellul...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:43:59
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Calise Hawkins (right)
Bobby podcasts with stand-up comedian Calise Hawkins from a stoop just down the block from West 4th Street in Greenwich Villages. Recently featured...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 41:28
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LTR's August broadcast,TRAVEL By RAIL, provides a fascinating overview of passenger rail travel in North America. Started in 1970 by the U.S. gove...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:02:15
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let's travel radio discuses the legendary silk road

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:08:34
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The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a ten-...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:13:13
  • Purchases: 1
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The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a trip...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bluegrass Draw Band, Credit: Dave Lathrop
Producer Dave Lathrop documents the "draw band" process at the Cabin Fever Reliever Bluegrass gathering in Duluth. Dave follows one of the draw ban...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 1
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
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Hydroponics as sustainable food production

  • Added: Nov 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:46
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I learned how to write a break-up song to get over my break-up

Bought by WHRV, WHRV, WBUR's Listen Up, KMXT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 14

  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 09:17
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If you've never played it, do you really know what it's all about? Don't knock it until you've tried it.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 34:42
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Part 2 of a two-part series - business owners apply ethical standards to their business practices and decisions.

  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:07