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Small town movie theaters surviving in the digital age

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Mar 20, 2015
Length: 04:57
Purchases: 1

Albert Maysles - on how childhood experiences shape our art

From: Susan Doran

Caption: Al Maysles and me at The Maysles Institute, Harlem NY

Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...

Added: Mar 09, 2015
Length: 05:44

Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective

There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix

Added: Mar 05, 2015
Length: 06:37
Purchases: 4

Architect Jack Liebenberg's theatrical legacy

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...

Added: Feb 24, 2015
Length: 04:33

Radio Retrospective: George Burns Loves Gracie Allen

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective

The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 09, 2015
Length: 11:51
Purchases: 3

Radio Retrospective: Radio at War

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective

Caption: Frank Sinatra being interview during World War II, Credit: Wikipedia

Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Added: Dec 01, 2014
Length: 04:59
Purchases: 3

Radio Retrospective: Rod Serling

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective

Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...

Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Dec 01, 2014
Length: 05:53
Purchases: 5

Radio Retrospective: The First Woman of Sound Effects

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective

Caption: Ora Nichols (left) and the CBS Sound Effects Team, Credit: Wikipedia

Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio

Added: Dec 01, 2014
Length: 04:41
Purchases: 3

Working: Then & Now

From: Radio Diaries

In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more

Added: Nov 18, 2014
Length: 10:13
Purchases: 10

Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age

From: Katy Sewall

Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall

Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Added: Oct 17, 2014
Length: 49:32
Purchases: 4

The Nonviolent Path of Cesar Chavez

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco. Toget...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Mar 20, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 10

Joe McEwen

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Record label executive Joe McEwen was one of the many white kids listening to Black radio in Philadelphia in the 50s and 60s. Here, McEwen talks ab...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KUOW

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 04:27
Purchases: 3

Dyana Williams

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Dyana Williams started her broadcasting career in 1973 as one of the few African-American women on the air. Her radio handle? Ebony Moonbeams. Sinc...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, WABE, and KUOW

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 04:55
Purchases: 4

Karen Warrington

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Karen Warrington, director of communication for Congressman Robert Brady, has been an independent voice for Black political and social empowerment ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KUOW, and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 06:41
Purchases: 4

Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio (Two Hour Special)

From: Mighty Writers
Series: Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio

Caption: Legendary Philadelphia disc jockey Georgie Woods, Credit: Temple Urban Archives

Starting in the 1950s, Black radio stations around the country became the pulse of African-American communities, and served as their megaphone duri...

Bought by WHYY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WOMR, Radio Catskill and more

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 01:58:00
Purchases: 46

WHERE WERE WE IN '63 ?

From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism

Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Nov 12, 2013
Length: 03:44
Purchases: 2

Miss Subways

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 26, 2013
Length: 08:26
Purchases: 2

Dance Until the World Ends

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 22, 2013
Length: 02:19
Purchases: 1

HN- Thomas Nast

From: Conor Bentley

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

Added: Jan 28, 2013
Length: 09:42

Near vs. Minnesota - The First Great Press Case

From: Susan Gray

When Minneapolis officials shut down a scandal sheet publisher for printing malicious and defamatory material it sparked our country's first debate...

Added: Sep 25, 2012
Length: 27:37

Revivalist Radio...on Stage

From: Daniel Gross

It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 01, 2012
Length: 14:45
Purchases: 2

The RARE EARTH story with Gil Bridges Vol. III

From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show

Rare Earth is know for their hits; Get Ready, I Just Want To celebrate, I Know I'm Losing You, Big John Is My Name, Hey Big Brother, What'd I Say, ...

Added: Mar 22, 2012
Length: 01:02:30

Equal Time: The Networks and the Civil Rights Movement

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes