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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On this episode, we talked about producer Ian Brennan's new book "Missing Music," in which he discusses his latest song collecting activities durin...
- Added: Apr 27, 2024
- Length: 28:31
Brian Dunning takes a look at some haunted houses and separates the historical facts from the ghost stories.
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The Endless War, a movie released in late July 2007, written, directed and produced by Charles Ferguson, depicts the blunders and ill-prepared mann...
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 29:00
This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007.
Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 29:00
In her new book No Meat Required, food writer Alicia Kennedy looks at vegetarian movements of the past and shares her low-tech vision for the futur...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Brian Dunning lays out what we know about the potential for alien civilizations and the laws of physics that might allow or prohibit our visiting o...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2024
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 1
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 20
February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 03:00
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust.
In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history,...
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:35
This week - Remembering.
In light of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, we hear from those who survived the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We also h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 29:59
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUNM
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An optional second hour of a deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is...
Bought by KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WABE, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...
Bought by KSJE
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle,” published in 1906, is a seminal work that exposed the harrowing conditions of the meat-packing industry in the...
- Added: Jan 13, 2024
- Length: 04:21
Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2007
Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights
The life of...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Andrew Wyeth, an American artistic luminary, transcended the canvas to become a masterful chronicler of the human condition and the natural world. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 10:27
Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
The understanding of how we humans experienc...
- Added: Dec 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 07:02
Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
The understanding of how we humans experienc...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 29:00
With Beyonce and Taylor Swift setting records with their two new concert films, we decided to offer up some other concert films for you to enjoy th...
Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KWIT, KSRQ, KECG and more
- Added: Dec 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to author J. Lawrence Graham...who's brought his own military experien...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
