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Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 28:00
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...
- Added: Aug 23, 2023
- Length: 02:30
‘The Seven Wonders of the World’ *sounds* impressive, but could they do with an update? That was the mission of the mysterious Swiss-based ‘New 7 W...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:15
Jeremy Garrett visits Unreal Bluegrass to discuss his new solo CD Circles and and the latest from The Infamous Stringdusters, Rise Sun.Jeremy is a ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2020
- Length: 01:02:54
John Wilson talks fairness, degrees of badness, and fulfilling his prime Razzie fantasy
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 31:58
The sound-rich journey of an opulent movie palace's transition from working class fantasy land to revered community asset.
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 07:00
When the Cuyahoga River caught fire on June 22, 1969, it badly scarred Cleveland’s image. Some other polluted rivers were burning in American citi...
Bought by WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, WILL, WXXI Rochester, WBFO and more
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 6
If the United States were embroiled in a third world war and the American public learned that Barack Obama were taking eight days off in the middle...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 3
What do square dancing and the AIDS crisis have in common?
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:30
A mockumentary about an OJ Simpson/Othello mashup musical will be released on iTunes and will play one night in theaters nationwide--June 17, the 2...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
A short Irish fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Saint Patrick Day or anytime.
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 07:27
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:18
It’s been 10 years since the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students. Ar...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Danae wanted to get Margaret something very, very special for her golden birthday. So she planned an elaborate surprise for her. But Margaret doesn...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 2
Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie af...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Summer in Minnesota means a few things: playing in the park, playing in the water and playing around at all the festivals scattered about Central M...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: 29:19
PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...
- Added: Jun 22, 2010
- Length: 57:43
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...
Bought by WWNO, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WSGE and more
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 9
Think you know why the White House flag is flying, and the Washington Monument is tri-colored? Then you might want to think again.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2010
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 1
Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, has been the cartoonist at The Economist for 30 years. He explains how the donkey and elephant came to repre...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 26, 2008
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 1
This year is the 100th anniversary of Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: May 19, 2008
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
The great grandson of a Norwegian homesteader tells his family's story in five scenes.
Bought by The PRX Podcast
- Added: Jan 02, 2008
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
Carrboro, NC celebrates the 80th birthday of Buster Keaton's classic "The General".
- Added: Sep 27, 2007
- Length: 05:17
Beloved for his full-length ballets, Stravinsky also created a surprising array of very short pieces for orchestra
- Added: May 24, 2007
- Length: 16:24
