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The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
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I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff. Native bees that buzz poll...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:43
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Imagine arriving by boat in a rural town of 150,000 people where two rivers join in central China. Imagine be...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The powerhouse vocals of Elle King.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy nominated vocalist and songwriter Elle King plus Mexo-Americana...

Bought by KUAR, WVIK, Delmarva Public Media, WEJP-LP 107.1, KTRL and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 37
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Take Me With You: Around The World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home Have you ever made friends with someone from a place where you visited as a t...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Galactic
The members of the band Galactic have been groove-makers in New Orleans and beyond for more than 25 years, embracing R&B, hip hop, jazz, rap, rock,...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
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On today’s episode of The Apple Seed we' re bringing you stories featuring young people who would gladly trade places with an adult, if only to esc...

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
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When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Roland Martin
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:32
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When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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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
Caption: Jello Lake, Credit: Erin Sullivan
Join us as we explore the great outdoors while indoors with photographer Erin Sullivan of Erin Outdoors.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
Caption: Unreal Bluegrass , a little bit outside the Flat Top Box, Credit: Steve Martin
Jeremy Garrett visits Unreal Bluegrass to discuss his new solo CD Circles and and the latest from The Infamous Stringdusters, Rise Sun.Jeremy is a ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02:54
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This week on the show we talk about vegan rock stars.

Bought by WOUB, WSLR, KRSC, KWIT, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This week we talk about wild conspiracies we found on reddit.

Bought by WOUB, KWIT, KSRQ, KRSC, KTRL and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Listen to an interview with author Steven Tow.

Bought by KWIT, WOUB, KSRQ, KRSC, KTRL and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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We feature literature and commentary about the December holiday season from our rich archives. The late Rabbi Gerald Kane discusses the origins of ...

Bought by WDCB and WDCB


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how ast...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 16:54
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Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and politica...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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There is strong historical and anthropological evidence that dogs came across the Bering land bridge with people migrating from Siberia to Alaska. ...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Simeon Mills discusses his novel about growing up robot in the 1990s, The Obsoletes. He also reads two short selections.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 3
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On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hour’s drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Life Above the Jungle Floor In the middle of the Costa Rican rain forest, about an hour west of San Jose, Costa Rica, on the east side of the conti...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00