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Host Bob Kustra interviews Noah Isenberg, author of “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.”

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Marc Levinson,, author of “An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy.”

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Lets Travel Radio's February Show - Riding the MTA. With insight from the Long Island Railroad, NY By Rail Publishing, and MetroNorth Railroad boar...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:26
Caption: The Vidalia Onion Museum in Vidalia, Georgia. , Credit: Photo by Tyler Pratt.
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
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Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime in St. Louis with a style all its own, using allit...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 16:14
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For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 26:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Milt Lee talks with Erik Hokuf, owner of Aircorps Aviation, specializing in the restoration, maintenance, and rebuilding of vintage WWII aircraft.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Bemidji’s grassroots Truth and Reconciliation group has been meeting for months to talk about race. Anton Treuer is one of the founding members of ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:24
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A gun store owner recounts the long history of his family's store and the historical artifacts that have come through.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:31
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The future of mining on Minnesota's Iron Range continues to be a topic of discussion and debate throughout the region and beyond our state borders....

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 22:16
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Last week on Culture Clique, we listened to part One of the 140 year history of Winona National Band. Jenny Baertsch the marketing coordinator for ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 14:46
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This week on Culture Clique, we learn about the 140 year history of Winona National Band. Find out how this financial institution started on the Jo...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 32:31
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we partake in a history lesson on the buildings in downtown Winona. Learn about the Choate Building, Winona Wate...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 13:03
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The Rough Draft Diaries visits the Historic Vistula district of Toledo to check out The Casey-Pomeroy House. Sue had two connections for our next...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:10
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Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
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In the world of empire building, success is a numbers game. That’s the premise Jacob Soll's "The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
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Host Ed Ayers talks to historian Christopher Jones about the 1870s skirmish between John D. Rockefeller and the upstart competitors who built the c...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
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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 and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City has recently seen a lot of redevelopment. Why has it been so hard to bring business back to this bou...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Wall Street during the Panic of 1907, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
From family friends and trusted confidants to the present day, Nomi Prins, journalist and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, retraces the...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Scott E.D. Skyrm
When one of Wall Streets biggest scams was revealed in a segment on 60 Minutes, viewers were outraged. Front Running. Although it is legal, it’s, a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we feature Part 4 of The Winona County Historical Society's "Voices of the Past" Cemetery Walk" This years theme...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Private investigator Ron Brown walks hosts Brian Balogh and Ed Ayers through the process of tracking people down, how technology has dramatically r...

Bought by Radio Newark, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nelson Nigel (right)
Bobby speaks, from Spaghetti Park, with government and corporation procurement specialist, Nelson Nigel. His website, "Head Exposed dot com”, offer...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 52:30
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Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti traces the roots of the phrase "do it yourself" through its evolution in both corporate advertising and subcul...

Bought by WDBM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2