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Episode 10 - Fork in the Road
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
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This week, we go left or we go right.

Bought by KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fred McDougal KBFT Family History Series
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
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Bois Forte Elder, Fred McDougal talks about economic growth in the Nett Lake Community.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
Making Beyoncé
From: WBEZ
Caption: WBEZ's 'Making Beyoncé'
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is a media mogul. A philanthropist. A feminist hero. But before the Grammys, the platinum records and Destiny’s Child, ther...

Bought by KUHF, WCMU Michigan, KOSU, KERA, WXPN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 29
Grief and Mystery Special Part Two
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 1
Grief and Mystery Special Part One
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #52: Puppeteering from Darmstadt to DC
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ingrid Crepeau is a successful US-American puppeteer, performer and puppet-designer based in the Washington, DC area. Her time in Darmstadt, German...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #45: The Passion of Chris Strachwitz
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional, regional, down-home music of the US, his adopted hom...

Bought by WDCB, KICI Iowa City, WNYO, and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 13:32
  • Purchases: 2
TRAILER TO: The Emergence of Emmylou Harris (coming early Sept. 2019)
From: Paul Ingles
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The musical journey of Emmylou Harris is to be explored in this one or two hour special from music documentarian Paul Ingles. 8:30 preview not for...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 08:28
The Big Pond #38: Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #29: Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #37: 100 Years of the Bauhaus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design was founded in 1919 and lasted for only 14 years before the Nazis forced it to close in 1933. An...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #32: Getting to Know the Gateau
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Although it’s not certain who first wrote the recipe, the Black Forest cake has been fully embraced by the Black Forest community as an essential a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 19:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #31: The Berlin Ringbahn
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Hop on board Berlin’s Ringbahn, a suburban train that carries over 400,000 passengers each day and circles some of the city’s most authentic and li...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #29: Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
From: Goethe-Institut
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
The Big Pond #26: No Restraint – Berger Cookies and the City of Baltimore
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Over 200 years ago, German immigrant Henry Berger opened a bakery in East Baltimore – and since that day, Berger Cookies have been handmade in the ...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 17:02
The Big Pond #22: The Story of the Brezn
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 33:17
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #21: What’s a Sister City Really?
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #20: Hessian Barracks in Maryland
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 23:47
The Big Pond #19: German Bread – A Nourishing Craft
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With its diversity of more than 3,000 varieties the Germans are world champions of bread. Since ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 24:27
  • Purchases: 2
Fixing School Finance
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Photo of the Texas Capital building on March 11, 2019, during a rally for education finance reform., Credit: Pius Wong
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 41:58
The Big Pond #18: German-Texan Heritage Societies
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #14: St. Hildegard of Bingen
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, what o...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #13: German-style Wines in the US
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 20:24