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Our guest experts give our audience advice on how to bike safely in an urbanized area.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 56:27
- Purchases: 3
A Radio Thriller
(part of the CAPE COD RADIO MYSTERY THEATER series to be uploaded soon)
Our most popular radio thriller.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 35:22
In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 22:35
Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 2
The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 56:30
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
Learning to navigate through the dark. Much like a radio listener, a blind person has to rely a lot on their sense of hearing. But once you learn t...
Bought by KMUN, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, PRX Remix, and Aspen Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
We wanted to hear about Christmas from the under 5 demographic and this is what we got!
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 04:35
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 05:05
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 58:00
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 12:25
- Purchases: 1
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Hyman Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. Well, he did as soon as he found something to write with as we see i...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
There are several theories as to what happened to the people of The Roanoke Colony. We explore one theory in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars, the residents of Hartlepool in England once put what they thought was a French spy on trial. We take...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. We see exactly how far ahead of his time John Montagu was in...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Fourteen year old, Philo T. Farnsworth, continues his work on the electric television. Apparently there was some trouble with some of the early mod...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
We’re very lucky that Philo T. Farnsworth, as a teenager, didn’t have any distractions like television to keep him from inventing…well…television. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Signed in 1215 in England, The Magna Carta is said to have inspired many constitutional documents including the United States Constitution. Journey...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1803, Lewis & Clark set out to trek across the Pacific Northwest to find passage to the Pacific Ocean. We are there moments after they started t...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
