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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
A trip back in time to 1991 and the 8th Annual Chicago Blues Fest.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 59:46
- Purchases: 1
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bob...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 42:01
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 29:27
In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 31:54
“The police had surrounded the house. They had been there for quite a while. They didn’t want to try to rush the house because they thought he migh...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:07
In 1930, a Cuban woman named Elena de Hoyos went to the hospital in Key West, Florida. She had a bad cough, and her family was afraid she had Tuber...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 18:24
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 25, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 15, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
A peek behind the curtain of a classic horror soundtrack
- Added: Feb 21, 2020
- Length: 38:30
John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprisin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 28:12
Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 36:44
When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 1
HOUR 2 of a 2 hour public radio special from award-winning producer Paul Ingles called "Got Blues If You Want It! A Rolling Stones Special". The pr...
Bought by KFSK, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, KSJE, North State Public Radio and more
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 11
After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 42:40
The entire 1951 movie is narrated -- and commented on -- in this sound-rich radio show...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 02:36:58
Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 16:50
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
Dabbling in religious conspiracy, not even the pope can escape the commentary of this show...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 02:41:15
You'll never hear the song White Christmas the same way again.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KUOW, WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 06:25
- Purchases: 14
For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 13:55
- Purchases: 4
