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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 54:00
In this second episode of our series on the career, legacy, aspirations and regrets of Whit Stillman, we hear from the filmmaker — as well as actor...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 52:44
In an uncharacteristic wash of holiday cheer, today we investigate how the actions of Santa could be interpreted in a court of law.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Dec 20, 2022
- Length: 23:35
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 22:13
Mike Quinn’s first professional puppetry gig was working for Jim Henson on The Great Muppet Caper. His second job was working on The Dark Crystal....
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 01:30:27
WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR is a series of free public programs featuring stories about the people, places and history of our lower Russian River communi...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 1
How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 1
A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 1
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 1
KBFT Native Music Fest Series is a Live Community Performance & Interview with the area's most top acts! In this segment we meet with indigenous ro...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 06:37
Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 49:00
KBFT Native Music Fest Series is a Live Community Performance & Interview with the area's most top acts! In this segment we meet with folk/rock ban...
- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 05:10
When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we look...
- Added: Aug 16, 2021
- Length: 34:47
In this segment we hear from Nett Lake resident/Bois Forte Band Member - Keith Roy who shares his knowledge on Wild Ricing and how to make a push p...
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 20:15
This Native Fest Art Series shares the interviews provided by the artists that shared their talents and background with the community of Nett Lake,...
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 05:00
This Native Fest Art Series shares the interviews provided by the artists that shared their talents and background with the community of Nett Lake,...
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 10:02
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 25:11
- Purchases: 1
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 32:22
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
