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6 works, including WIENIAWSKI: Gigue in E Minor, Op. 23; Marat Bisengaliev, violin.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
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Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:08
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This week on Afterglow, it’s part two of an exploration of colorful songs from the Great American Songbook, as we feature “Little White Lies,” “Tha...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Author Mary Logue talks about her new book "The Big Sugar"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
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‘The Seven Wonders of the World’ *sounds* impressive, but could they do with an update? That was the mission of the mysterious Swiss-based ‘New 7 W...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:15
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Sliced bread had never been automated before Otto Rohwedder unveiled his “power-driven, multi-bladed bread slicer” at Chillicothe Baking Company on...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:34
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Who invented the hamburger? It’s almost impossible to know, given that mincemeat has been consumed all around the world, and for centuries – but Os...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Qantas Airlines Koala getting special treatment., Credit: Qantas Airlines
Episode 2 of the Space Oddities podcast takes a look at some interesting, manned spaceflight splashdowns and recoveries, in particular, those where...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jason Roberts
Two time Grammy Award winning Texas Swing fiddler and Asleep at the Wheel member Jason Roberts & the Jason Roberts Band recorded live at Ozark Folk...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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This week on Culture Clique, we hear from Professor Beth Zold on Mary Toft, the 18th century woman who convinced doctors that she had given birth t...

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 24:05
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Will Rogers becomes wildly popular in the newspapers

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
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In April 1948, a few weeks before the establishment of the State of Israel, Ezra and Saida Chakak, a Jewish couple from Baghdad, gave birth to iden...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 10:22
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On this episode of Culture Clique we talk to Scot Simpson at the Winona History Center. Scot is a volunteer at the History Center and one of the mo...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 38:58
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This week's broadcast includes New Years folklore, this week's history lesson, celestial viewing, and a short story titled "Winter's Dreary Fog." ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 09:13
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Helenboch, originally created by one of Georgia's first craft breweries, is getting a rebirth. Reported by Tim Dennis.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 13:26
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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
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 39:29
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Everything you didn't want to know about mountain lions!

  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:00:01
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The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:20:44
Caption: The Big Ten (top Republican primary candidates duke it out at Cleveland), Credit: Fox News
Highlights of the top Republicans debating in the first contest for the 2016 nomination, with typically apolitical commentary by Rob MacClanahan

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:01:45
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History of Thanksgiving celebration (bye bye Jack-O-Lantern)...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:31:19
Caption: Donnie (L) and Dana (R) Dunagan
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A bricked door in the basement of a shop on Front Street in Missoula, MT.
No one thinks about the basements.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 19:48
Caption:  Floor in Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura (library of Pope Julius II). The room signifies unity, and the Star of David which has 6 points represents also the six day creation story which is in the Christian Bible (of course), so there in the floor it
A walking tour of the Vatican's floors, which are frequently made from re-purposed bits of ancient history.

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2