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Will Webb as written and performed by William V. Specht
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:15
Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:49
- Purchases: 1
Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Friday the Thirteenth, Blair Witch. It seems the woods make a great backdrop for scary stories, but why?...
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 21:48
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
Tom Houck shares memories of dropping out of high school in 1965 to fight for civil rights, and becoming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s personal dri...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
They’re everywhere: in your fancy cocktail bar and your down home country restaurant. In the hands of farmer’s market shoppers and 7-Eleven Slurpee...
Bought by KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WABE
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 25:46
- Purchases: 3
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 38:38
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL co-founder Nick Prueher talks cultural anthropology, local angles, and topless darts.
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 20:28
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
Clela Rorex (R), a former County Clerk in Boulder, Colorado, tells her friend Sue Larson...
Bought by WEZU, WMUU-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KMUD, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 5
Sandip Roy takes one last ride in India's Ambassador motor car.
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 04:30
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 11:01
Join us for episode sixty-eight, an enlightening conversation with Paul Carrick Ph.D., teacher of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He’s also a bio...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:02
It’s the sixty-fifth time we’ve gotten together for a half-hour of top-notch entertainment!
Need we say more?
Okay, if you insist.
This episode we ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 28:02
Paul Bizzaro and his brother James remember growing up on Liberty Island--home of the Statue of Liberty.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
Longtime New Yorkers recall a bygone era of NYC when eating out was a rare luxury, and eateries that vanished long ago -- automats, Nedick's (hot d...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:13
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Woo boy another big show comes your way! This time we speak with historian, curator, author and lecturer, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis. Credited with virtu...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 28:02
What kind of power did ancient Athenians have over elected officials? Eligible voters screened candidates for several positions before they took th...
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
U.S. Navy veteran Denny Meyer remembers what it was like to be gay and a sailor in the late 1960s.
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WDBM, WEZU, KMUD, KISU and more
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 8
Swan’s Islanders share their childhood memories of growing up on the island.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 1
Every town has its troublemaker. But Normie Burns is not a troublemaker. Normie wouldn’t hurt a fly. But he does like to stir things up once in a w...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:37
