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The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Our guest in this program was Dr. William Fry, a psychiatrist who has done extensive research in the field of humor. We discussed the psychology an...
- Added: Jan 08, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Mystery Monday is a series of one hour program that features vintage radio mystery programs from the 1930's through the 1950's.
- Added: Dec 31, 2018
- Length: 56:58
- Purchases: 4
Four Supreme Court cases that define the 1st Amendment in schools.
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 24:45
- Purchases: 2
Super powers that cause others to shrug and think, "who cares." The super power to move clouds with your eyes, to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide...
- Added: Sep 03, 2018
- Length: 03:32:49
The only logical sequel to "Road Songs" celebrates the destinations along the way while saying hello to the radio stations of cities where WoodWarb...
- Added: Aug 07, 2018
- Length: 01:55:45
Mark Roberts has attended almost every major sporting event in the world. And he’s been escorted off the field almost every time.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:20
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
He was the brawny icon of sports' Golden Age, and his singular popularity revolutionized live entertainment forever. So how did this legend get for...
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 12:13
In a time when women couldn't even vote, she wielded incredible power, blazing her own trail to unrivaled fame and fortune. So why don't we remembe...
- Added: Mar 06, 2018
- Length: 14:33
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
You're not alone. Even the music identifying application, Shazam, gets stumped on this show. Songs including knock offs of, "The Battle of New ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 04:06:27
"I was always fascinated with saloons. As a kid on State Street in Chicago, I was always running under the swinging doors." - Bricktop
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...
Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 13, 2017
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 68
Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 4
In the 1920s, the answer to that question was an important factor in the success of a song. Every few weeks a new dance was introduced, and fans lo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
They were best known as The Whoopee Makers, but they had the habit of adopting new names at the drop of a hat. The Lumberjacks, Louisville Rhythm K...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A retelling of the Shane Fenton story and a whiff of Mardi Gras is in the air down here in New Orleans.
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 03:27:20
It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 06:20
The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called “the most perfect specimen of a North American tree.” But in 1989, Austin’s city fores...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 22:17
- Purchases: 1
Standards rated 91 through 100 on JazzStandards.com list of most recorded songs.
- Added: Feb 06, 2016
- Length: 57:21
Those beautiful female voicalists who became pioneers in the art of jazz voicing in the early 1920s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A group of audio journalism students at IU has begun gathering coming out stories from local residents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, tran...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 06:36
Zac Little of the American Folk Rock band Saintseneca a talks about the relationship between a necker cube and songwriting on the new album Such Th...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 09:28
