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Caption: Host Martha Burk
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
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Andy Downs (L) and Angelia Sheer (R)
On October 4, 1971, George Giffe, a 35-year-old Tennessee man suffering from mental illness hijacked a charter plane at gunpoint from the Nashville...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
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Robert Griffo remembers how his life changed after the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The boundary stones are the oldest federal monuments in D.C. (and Virginia)., Credit: Stephen Powers
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:10
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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It's tough... aggressive... and only a few inches tall.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Anniversary of Legendary Rant by a Former Cubs Manager

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Feb 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bill Jones
Three Purple Heart recipients talk about how they earned their medals.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KRUA, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.

Bought by PRX Remix, WSLR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4