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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March 5, 1945: Corporal Newman Tuttle was chewing the fat with reporters in Salt Lake City. Rather than gearing up to storm Germany with his unit t...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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Late fall 1943: The Army didn’t send Lt Gerald Heaney and the 2nd Ranger Battalion to train in the British resort town Bude for its cobblestone str...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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June 5, 1943: Pilot Fred Hargesheimer had to eject from his plane into New Guinea. His first worry was evading the Japanese. But the challenge soon...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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November 7, 1942: Army Air Forces private Claude Robert was training to be a glider pilot at Fontana School of Aeronautics. What could be so hard a...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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April 1942: Army corporal Erwin Albert Glaesnapp survived the 85-mile Bataan Death March after his tank unit surrendered. But now he and his fellow...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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December 7, 1941: For four years, Dr. William Judd had been touring the country, warning about the dangers of Imperial Japan. Only today, as his le...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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1920: Two years after his son’s death in World War II, Andrew Haggerty, a Rochester postal carrier, had Clarence returned home for a flag-draped fu...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
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Jeff Swertfeger never knew when a song would come to him. One he dashed off on a napkin. One was a mediation on the disciples. Another came in a ru...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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March 1912, a Saturday afternoon, Susie Crowell was practicing on the new pipe organ at Rochester’s First Baptist Church, when she smelled smoke. H...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Olivia Gorden wasn’t even born when Prince released his mega-platinum album Purple Rain. But she did have a Prince connection, through her singing ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30