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Space Oddities: Episode 10-Odds 'n Ends
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
220326 Answer Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 5
201: Rabbit War
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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What happens when you are the Emperor of France and your hunting party plans go completely wrong? You get attacked by rabbits. This isn't a Monty P...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 2
WRM44 - Will Pokes Fun at Congress...Again
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Some of Will's greatest jokes about Congress

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: :59
WRM43 - Will & Presidents
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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The President is an obvious subject for Will's humor. He spoke about the office, and the men in that position, often.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: :59
RDD: The Old and New
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Sven Olaf Nelson began his printing press shop with a small table-top proof press and a few drawers of type in 2001, now he has over 300 drawers an...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:11
143: Hogmanay
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Help us lean into the New Year with the many Scottish traditions surrounding Hogmanay! There are wee drams of whiskey and balls of fire and cleanin...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
Traveling Route 66 and Crossing Europe in an RV
From: World Footprints LLC
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As we travel through Iceland you will hear about America’s historic Route 66 with Route Magazine editor, Brennan Matthews and Kat Bird of the Wande...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
Historic Tug Of War: 10,000 Kids vs. House
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: John H. Stevens House in transit., Credit: Star Tribune. May 29, 1896, Minneapolis, Minn.
Next to Minnehaha Falls sits an old house that hosts exhibits recalling Minneapolis history. The house itself is the site of early business deals d...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 05:52
SOUNDS like
From: Marc Powell
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An occasional podcast exploring the Puget SOUND through the SOUNDS that define the region and its people. In this episode, listeners hear the Washi...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:07
The Untold Story of University Archivist Tom Steman and the Oral History Project
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack hangs out with St. Cloud State Un...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:57
The Untold Story of the St. Cloud State University Archives, 150 Years of History with Tom Steman
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Have you ever wondered how World War I affected St. Cloud State University? Have you ever wondered how the neighborhood around the college has cha...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:40
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
From: Avery Thompson
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Unhappy with contemporary America, Avery Thompson travels to Plymouth, Massachusetts to consult the man responsible for bringing his family to thes...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 1
MMAM April 2017
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we learn about all the events happening at the Minnesota Marine Arts Museum this month, into the rest of winter. Learn...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 18:04
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 7
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Home On The Waves With A Seafaring Cowboy" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded...

Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
December 31, 2017, Episode #1
From: Colloquial Podcast
Series: Colloquial
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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
Episode 55: The Shell Game
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The Magic Castle in Hollywood has been a private club for magicians since 1963, and its walls are lined with portraits of magicians past and presen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KHNS


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 15:42
  • Purchases: 2
Tuned to Yesterday Special: New Year's of Yesteryear
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Tuned to Yesterday
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Tuned to Yesterday Special: New Year's of Yesteryear. Featuring New Year's themed excerpts from the famous entertainers of radio's golden age.

Bought by WHRV, KRPS, WMUU-LP, and KRPS


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
The world’s fair that changed San Francisco
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Imagine a tower more than 40 stories high, sparkling as the sun catches a hundred thousand pieces of colorful cut glass. Imagine this tower at nigh...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Ghost of Jim Deans
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A man named Jim Deans arrives in Rockland, Maine to set up a recording studio in the back of the old American Legion Hall, but where did he come fr...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
The History Behind Easter Traditions
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Courtesy of T. Demand, Credit: (cc) <a href=" http://www.faunaflorawallpaper.com/viewer/wallpaper.php?/rabbit/31680/rabbit-easter-eggs-ccbysa-Gerbil">T. Demand</a>
The stories behind popular Easter traditions like the Easter Bunny and decorating eggs.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 7
Allusionist 9: The Space Between
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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Forget words for a moment; look at the spaces between the words.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 10:21
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 7: Mountweazel
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 15:26
  • Purchases: 1
Que sera sera
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.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Parcel
From: Daniel Wanschura
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A family living in Idaho during the early 20th Century test the limits of the Postal Service, when they send a very special parcel through the Post.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1