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Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Reporter Matthew Schneeman poses in front of the runestone at the Kensington Runestone Museum, Credit: Mattew Scheeman
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
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Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid. Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
Caption: Myles Standish reenactor
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...

Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 10:32
  • Purchases: 3
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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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:09
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:13
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:27
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:10
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:25
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:22
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Traditional kermes from the 50's Interview, narrative as if your granddad where telling you something from his time.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2004
  • Length: 05:22