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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 52:47
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Time now for StoryCorps, As the end of year approaches, we’re taking time to remember those we’ve lost. This week, we honor the late Justice Ruth...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
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The Justice Department has submitted a controversial request to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 Census. Experts say the questio...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KYUK, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 6
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Items have gone missing from the state capitol and she’s determined to find them. On this episode of Culture Clique we talk to Natalie Heneghan who...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 23:13
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The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
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We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
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One hundred years ago, the first jazz recordings were made, and not many years after a young man named Bix Beiderbecke picked up the cornet. Beider...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
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The Cherokee Nation was one of the most powerful tribes living in Virginia, five hundred years ago. Today, the Cherokee are one of the largest Nati...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3
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Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
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We may be in a period of historic closeness between Russia and the United States, but there was a time when hundreds of African-American scientists...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 4
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When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 4
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In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
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After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
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After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

Bought by KENW, WEZU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
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We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are preparing to celebrate that first feast shared between Native Americans and European Pilgri...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
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On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popula...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The Francis Little House in Deephaven, Minnesota, was designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The building and design took some time--l...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: E. Russell 'Noodles' Smith, the owner of a famous club in the Central District in the 1900s., Credit: Credit Public domain, via BlackPast.org
RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:23
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...

Bought by WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller, San Francisco, CA 3/19/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller talk revealing human nature, looking a Galapagos tortoise in the eye, and babysitting Cate Blanchett.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 21:31
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Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...

Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
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New York has its Coney Island; Tulsa had its Bell’s Amusement Park. Founded in 1951, Bell’s rapidly became the city’s must-visit attraction--but to...

Bought by The Neighborhood


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1