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Four Symphonic Secrets Revealed
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Jenner By The Sea & Beyond
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR
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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
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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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
Episode 26: The Kinseys
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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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
Duncans Mills and Cazadero
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR
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1894 Cazadero train wreck, Gaye Lebaron on Black Bart, the restoration of Duncans Mills, the History of Pole Mountain Lookout, and more!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 57:30
Wizards & Critters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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
The Big Pond #21: What’s a Sister City Really?
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Cover Me Softly
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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A history and philosophy of the cover song in the rock music tradition, and how it contrasts with the classical music tradition.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 47:28
Episode 36: Perfect Specimen
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called “the most perfect specimen of a North American tree.” But in 1989, Austin’s city fores...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 22:17
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 23: Triassic Park
From: Criminal
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The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 20:17
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
James Carroll Booker the Third: The Life, Music, and Mystique of the Bayou Maharajah Part 2.
From: David Kunian
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Part 2 of 2 part radio documentary about the legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker

Bought by Prairie Public, NPR Illinois, and WNCU


  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 3
'The Mad Russian': Reflections of a Cold War Wrestling Villain
From: Aaron Henkin
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Pro wrestler Nikolai Volkoff used to infuriate Cold War crowds with his singing of the Soviet National Anthem --- now he's a 55-year-old grandfathe...

Bought by WXDU and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 15:28
  • Purchases: 2