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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Renaissance festivals are olden, but they're also getting old. Many of the velvet-costumed, jousting, and sword-wielding performers at these festiv...
Bought by WOUB, WTJU, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 6
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Former National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to the Press Club about challenges facing the United States and the recent military mission tha...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 53:59
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 04:48
When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 23, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 2
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 59:01
A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 09:59
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: :26
On this edition of Culture Clique we visit with two individuals from the National Center for Transgender equality. Mara Kiesling The Executive Dire...
Bought by Wild Planet Radio and WGDR
- Added: Dec 06, 2010
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
An ancient obese female doll may represent a mother goddess worshipped by Stone Age people
- Added: Dec 05, 2010
- Length: :54
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 01:48
- Added: Aug 13, 2010
- Length: 01:54
Poem about origins performed by members of Santa Fe Indian School's spoken word team.
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
It's the 50th anniversary of one of the most dramatic and influential death penalty cases ever, the Caryl Chessman case that drew worldwide attent...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: 05:01
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...
- Added: Mar 24, 2010
- Length: 04:14
Thanks to Coolidge and his friends, subsequent presidents have learned the danger in giving banks a free rein.
- Added: Feb 12, 2010
- Length: :55
Miep Gies, the Austrian woman whose family protected the family of Anne Frank during World War II and who found Anne's diary scattered on the floor...
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 19:01
Matt Frei looks at how the space industry helped racial integration. 40 years on from those first steps on the moon, Morgan Watson was one of the f...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 31
It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 03:50
A masterful songster recorded by two folklorists, fifty years apart.
Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTIP, and WAMU
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 5
The Santa Monica Pier and Arthur Lessac turned 100 years old on September 9th
- Added: Sep 14, 2009
- Length: 11:20
