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Talkeetna Bachelor Auction and Ball
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re taking a look at the event that has turned the darkest time of year into the biggest party for the last forty years, the Tal...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wilderness Woman Contest
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
One of the more common questions visitors ask Talkeetna residents is what we do in the winter. We’re starting off our second season by answering p...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Bucket of Blood and Belle's Barn
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Join us in this episode as we wrap up our first season with two buildings that used to form part of daily life for many in Downtown Talkeetna, but ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
Miners and Trappers Cabins
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we take a tour of some the humble yet vital cabins that sheltered miners and trappers in the area, many of which still stand today...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Forks Roadhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we head across the river, past Trapper Creek, and toward the Petersville mining district, where we find the Forks Roadhouse miles ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Curry
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re headed to Curry, a place “up the tracks” from Talkeetna that has been the site of a luxury hotel, a thriving small town, and...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Nagley’s General Store
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this episode, we’re visiting one of the first buildings you see as you turn onto Talkeetna’s Main Street, Nagley’s General Store. Since it was b...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Talkeetna Roadhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Since being built by Frank Lee around 1916 and later moved to its current location, the Talkeetna Roadhouse has been a staple of local life. Today...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Schoolhouse
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
For more than eighty years, the territorial schoolhouse building has stood in Downtown Talkeetna, Alaska. It has served many purposes over the dec...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Fairview Inn
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
The Fairview Inn is referred to by some as “Talkeetna’s living room.” On this episode of the Blue Tarp, we hear from people for whom the Fairview ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
VIVA LA MUJER HISTORIA 1
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: Viva La Mujer
Caption: women power, Credit: npr
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: :59
The Misadventure of the Disobliging Cadaver PART II
From: PETALUMA RADIO PLAYERS
Series: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
Caption: Holmes and Watson have spotted a clue!
Internationally renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty cohort in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downrig...

Bought by KWMR and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Misadventure of the Disobliging Cadaver PART I
From: PETALUMA RADIO PLAYERS
Series: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
Caption: The Misadventures of the Disobliging Cadaver, Credit: The Petaluma Radio Players
Internationally renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty cohort in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downrig...

Bought by KWMR and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:40
  • Purchases: 2
The War of 1812
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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American Dream Players present a short, comic history of a war we've more or less forgotten, the War of 1812. Fought on both land and sea, this wa...

  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 12:39
Queen for a Day
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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Vivacious, young,staunchly Catholic Mary of Scotland - traits bound to arouse the jealous enmity of her cousin, Elizabeth the First of England - an...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 16:30
The Jazz-O-Rama Hour #34: Tiger Rag: Dixieland Originals
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
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Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "Tiger Rag: Dixieland Originals.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Interchange - The Hoarders: Pathologizing the Packrat
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:36
The allure of the Man of Steel
From: Kristen Eicher
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Travel to Metropolis, IL., the official hometown of Superman, the Man of Steel.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
The Blues Rib Shack (Show III)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "Blues Rib Shack" is a Blues music show lasting one hour with three segments. This show is part of a limited series of shows that your listen...

  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 55:13
Clean your clock
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: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:26
Storyville: "Finding It In The Sun"
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans baseball team; Shoeless Joe Jackson is #12.
This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
Tabled Fables 7 Jack and the Beanstalk
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
Miss Subways
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
Chapter 6 - A Summer to Remember
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
VoiceBox: Singing All The Way To The Polls
From: VoiceBox
Caption: singing canditates
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:00