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Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
According to the Center for Disease Control, only one-third of Americans have gathered their family health history, although 96% of them believe th...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 30:40
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 26:58
Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Kevin Dennehy, is someone who can guide us through a journey to Normandy like no other. Smithsonian Associat...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Oct 09, 2023
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
Basil Smith, one of the prime movers behind this choir of children called the City Singers, talks about the transformative nature of music, an impa...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 24:15
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 51:59
It looks like an old phone on a dusty table. Curious folks at Burning Man pick up the receiver. What awaits on the other end is totally unexpected.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 24:40
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
On the menu this week:
A new cover from Dolly Parton
A new version of Money from Roger Waters himself
plus, new music from The Mountain Goats, Ple...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 6
In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 23:22
In this week's episode, Canada has some strong representation from MUNYA, Metric, Dust Cwine. Plus we chat with Anchorage singer/songwriter Lauren ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2023
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 6
We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 19:11
We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:28
On this week's episode, new tunes courtesy of M. Ward, Blonde Redhead, and Hiss Golden Messenger. Plus sampling some tracks out of Juneau & talking...
Bought by KHNS, KNBA, KSTK, Raven Radio, KTNA and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
The role of women, particularly Indigenous women, during the legendary fur trade in Minnesota is often overlooked. KFAI contributor Joe Friedrichs ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 21:58
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 07:56
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
The Minneapolis Humane Society formed in the late 1800s to protect animals — and even children — who could not speak for themselves. The early year...
- Added: Mar 16, 2023
- Length: 25:16
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...
- Added: Feb 16, 2023
- Length: 18:19
