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The city is temporary and the intersections are conceptual. Are you ready to experience Burning Man — deep in the Nevada desert?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
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Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
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How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phyllis Wilson's Military headshot
Phyllis Wilson, a retired Army veteran of 37 years and President of the Military Women’s Memorial Foundation, joins us to talk about the Memorial a...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 42:48
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Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
Caption: Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC
Join us as we walk in the footsteps of America’s rich history and discover some places that bring history alive.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:17
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World Footprints will uncover the stories behind the story of the Green Book and we’ll explore Rochester, New York’s rich African-American heritage .

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 37:09
Caption: Hardy and Patti Plyler, Credit: Charles McGuigan
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 24:42
Caption: James Gaskil, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 27:26
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Producer Jakob Lewis was born in a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. At the time, his dad was stationed at a U.S. army base in Wölfersheim, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Although it’s not certain who first wrote the recipe, the Black Forest cake has been fully embraced by the Black Forest community as an essential a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 19:15
  • Purchases: 2
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Hop on board Berlin’s Ringbahn, a suburban train that carries over 400,000 passengers each day and circles some of the city’s most authentic and li...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Will Turner, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Will Turner of Richmond, Virginia now holds the world record for the number of Ironman triathlons completed in a single calendar year—Sixty one. ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 27:16
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German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 20:24
Caption: Iron Man Will Turner in Grand Teton., Credit: Chris Defestano
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction. Will is the genuine article. He now holds the world ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 26:14
Caption: Will Turner, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction, He’s the genuine article. He now holds the world rec...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 15:04
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Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kaity Kasper, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Kaity Kasper does not wear her heart on her sleeve. But her right arm tells a tale. From wrist to shoulder, this appendage bears a polychromatic na...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 27:28
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A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 19:41
Caption: Hogg Island moorings., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 25:17
Caption: Barry Truitt at the helm., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: Pikes Peak
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:02
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We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Maisy is a shop dog in Toronto, but she had to take time off -- a sick leave. To battle her cancer, her humans traveled with Maisy to seek treatmen...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:43
Caption: Julie in her garden, Credit: Julie Soller
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 2