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It’s time to release your inner geek! Today on Culture Clique we take you to Nerd Nite at Ed’s No Name Bar in Winona, MN. The topic? “Jesus and the...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 35:15
An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 18:17
The behind-the-scenes history of a '90s cultural phenomenon that put singing vegetables in living rooms across America. A one-hour radio special fr...
Bought by KOSU, WBEZ, KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WVPE
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 5
In 2014 the United States had 650 reported cases of measles, a disease made preventable by a vaccine introduced 30 years ago. The majority of these...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 01:27:06
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: Mar 30, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
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
On this episode of CLASSICAL DARK ARTS, we look at Satan’s cabal of classical composers, players and theorists — a sleeper cell run by Liszt, Pagan...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 23:51
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
In this essay Aaron Brown dresses down the most popular words from the year 2012, according to the Global Language Monitor.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 28:26
- Purchases: 1
The story of how one rabbi got Coca Cola to become kosher
Bought by Prairie Public, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRCB 104.9, BSR Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 7
Its a visit to the tomb of St Val - in an unlikely location
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 06:29
A Philosopher, a robot scientist and an historian talk about our obsession and fascination with the idea of creating mechanical life.
Bought by WFUV and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 26, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
The story of the woman responsible for America's love afair with spiritualism and her modern-day descendants.
- Added: Nov 24, 2003
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 6
