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Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 26:46
- Purchases: 2
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 2
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 25:00
- Purchases: 3
From: john rabe
Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Cafesjian's Carousel in Como Park celebrates its centennial this year. In 1914, Austin McFadden paid the Philadelphia Toboggan Company to build a c...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 06:27
Songs about Ghosts, Monsters and Scary Things
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
Songs about Space, Stars and Satellites
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 28:35
On this episode of CLASSICAL DARK ARTS, we look at Satan’s cabal of classical composers, players and theorists — a sleeper cell run by Liszt, Pagan...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 23:51
Carolinn Skyler plays a very peculiar musical instrument. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. But the sound of it might me fam...
Bought by PRX Remix, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 4
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
From: Veronique LaCapra
It spanned less than three blocks and lasted only about ten years.
But the St. Louis arts and entertainment district known as Gaslight Square flou...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 1
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
The history of Shakespeare outdoors
- Added: Jun 18, 2014
- Length: 31:16
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 16:51
- Purchases: 2
In 1892 African American school teacher Carrie Williams and her lawyer, J.R. Clifford sued the white county school board for discrimination. Noneth...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 03:11
One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:29
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 15:29
