KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 Pieces

Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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1997: Lee Coggins’ job was to prepare the space shuttle Columbia’s astronauts by simulating disaster scenarios. But the crew had a real one when th...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1997: Doug Reuter, Owatonna’s congressman to the Minnesota House of Representatives, believed in dreams. One had helped him create a best-selling b...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1981: A weepy-voiced man called the police to confess. He’d killed a woman with an ice pick and he’d do it again, unless they stopped him. Here’s B...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1975: President Gerald Ford was offering clemency to Vietnam War evaders. Paul Tungseth wasn’t interested. He’d already served prison time. And why...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1972: The president of Rochester State Junior College determined the man would never come to campus. The students were equally determined he would....

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1979: Rochester was Richard Nixon’s kind of town. Now if only every campaign stop had cheering crowds instead of egg-throwing protesters. Here’s Br...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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October 1970: E. G. Marshall didn’t talk about the past because it involved “illness and break-up and things it’s just not pleasant to remember.” W...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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March 1954: Mark Harris’s classmate went from worrying about class assignments to planning his funeral. Now the memory of that dead classmate was t...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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Early 1950s: Peg Lynch developed a short domestic comedy, Ethel and Albert, at her Albert Lea radio station to fill time in a woman’s half-hour. Th...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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September 21, 1948: Dr. Edward Kendall, a researcher at Mayo, had been researching and refining compound E for nearly two decades. But now he had h...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:30