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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 1
"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 12:18
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
Apologies--we had sound quality issues. We did not record from the bottom of a metal trash can while hiding from mystery blobs falling from the sky...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
This week on On Story we’ll hear from award-winning screenwriter, playwright, producer and director, Kemp Powers who wrote the critically acclaimed...
- Added: Aug 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:05
When it’s Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody’s just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please m...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Rice Miller is probably the more known "Sonny Boy Williamson" although there was previously to his time an actual Blues harmonica player who's went...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:19
What happens when an internationally renowned artist stands in front of their inspiring muse? In 1957, Leonard Bernstein travelled to Israel to see...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 11:03
Internationally renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty cohort in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downrig...
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 22:00
- Purchases: 2
Internationally renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty cohort in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downrig...
- Added: Jun 14, 2018
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...
- Added: May 22, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...
Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 28:42
- Purchases: 3
Hour One of the program "Ballad Singer" features 11 original interpretations of old ballads, most of them to be found in the Child Ballads collecti...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 54:38
Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack explores the very thing that makes St. Cloud the “Granite City” as he heads out at the Stearns Count...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 30:00
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...
Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 4
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
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1
Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide
Bought by WXXI Rochester, KWMR, KEOS, KSRQ, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Dec 15, 2015
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 15
When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 14:42
- Purchases: 3
A new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center creates a picture of Twin Cities suburban life from after World War II to the 1970s. Dan Spock, direc...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 18:04
The St. Paul Winter Carnival has been a tradition in the Twin Cities for over 100 years! Today we learn from the carnivals cast of characters just ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 32:54
Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich about the race to...
Bought by WQCS, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
Sides tells the the thrilling and harrowing story of an early attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole in his book, "In the Kingdom of Ice: ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 30:31
