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A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.
Great for Samuel Beckett's birthday, the anniversary of "Waiting for Go...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 09:34
A short Irish fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Saint Patrick Day or anytime.
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 07:27
CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:55
"Singin' in the Bathtub", "Blue Hawaii" and "Aloha Oe" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 15th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
A look at the devoted fans of Albert Payson Terhune
and his book "Lad: A Dog"
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 25:27
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:18
90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Join us today for the first part of this week's show on the upcoming Chinese New Year with special guest Ms. Peng Zeng, assistant director of the C...
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 11:47
It’s been 10 years since the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students. Ar...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Danae wanted to get Margaret something very, very special for her golden birthday. So she planned an elaborate surprise for her. But Margaret doesn...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 2
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 46:57
Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie af...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...
- Added: Aug 15, 2010
- Length: 04:56
Summer in Minnesota means a few things: playing in the park, playing in the water and playing around at all the festivals scattered about Central M...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: 29:19
PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...
- Added: Jun 22, 2010
- Length: 57:43
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...
Bought by WWNO, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WSGE and more
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 9
Think you know why the White House flag is flying, and the Washington Monument is tri-colored? Then you might want to think again.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2010
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 1
Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, has been the cartoonist at The Economist for 30 years. He explains how the donkey and elephant came to repre...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
How Abraham Lincoln discovered humor and how jokes and tall tales helped him to make a point.
- Added: Feb 04, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 22
This documentary looks back at the 25th Anniversary of David Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" visit to New Zealand. It recounts Bowie being welcomed by ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jan 15, 2009
- Length: 20:48
- Purchases: 1
On this edition we hear the story of La Llorona (the weeping woman)-- a story that's been told since the time of the Spanish conquest, all over Mex...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KVNF, KZYX, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 24
David visits Boston and rewrites some history.
- Added: Aug 11, 2008
- Length: 03:45
