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During the industrial revolution, Pittsburgh welcomed thousands of immigrants to southwestern Pennsylvania. The city remains welcoming to families ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 03:54
For over a century scientists have pondered the source of cosmic rays, those powerful particles bombarding Earth from space. Now an international t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 10:45
- Purchases: 1
We take you to the Quick Quilting Capital of the World to see how one family’s YouTube videos are not just building a business—they’re rebuilding a...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 2
Lindsey Turrentine, of CNET.com & Caterina Fake founder of Flickr and Findery.
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
There’s a growing trend of micro medical practices where doctors do it all from taking your blood pressure to billing your insurance. Julie Sabatie...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
Rebecca Lee has lived with a brain injury since shortly after birth. Throughout her life many people have helped her with the resulting physical a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 3
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 12:26
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 27:13
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a BusinessWeek best seller soon to be in its ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 57:43
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 58:53
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 58:01
The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 58:01
About 10-percent of kids in school – approximately 9 to 13 million students – struggle with mental health problems. Whether they’re running out of ...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 17:25
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 59:00
At the Reiche School, you'll never be sent to the principal's office.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 2
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 69, Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon and a half million people were listening to music at Woodstock... But in New York... T...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 03:59
Three blocks of South Figuerola Street show us three faces of California
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 11:42
