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Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Anti-smoking ad campaign, Credit: Minnesota Department of Health
Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:53
What's Wrong With Work?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: What's Wrong With Work?
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It's not easy in America today to find work that matters, that’s meaningful, and that pays enough to live on. Which is the one thing we don’t talk ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Chapter Nine – Inside Studio 54 – The Real Story of Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Chapter Nine: The Battle for the Liquor License In spite of the raid on Studio 54 in December 1978, the club remained open and hotter than ever f...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2022
  • Length: 22:18
Episode 145: How to Sell a Haunted House
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:05
Bill's Problem With Piracy
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:25
Episode 108: The Numbers
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Cents & Sensibility (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Cents & Sensibility (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Cents & Sensibility (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to study irrational economics

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WCQS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Pride & Profit (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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
Saving a part of Americana--old diners restored and repurposed
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Steve Harwin bought his first diner in 1987...and has been preserving this special part of American history ever since. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg caught...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 18:05
K-Tel Records
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we discover how K-Tel managed to sell albums stacked with hits for so little.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Madam Next Door (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until ...

Bought by KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Happy Birthday FM91!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
Drink Local (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-How local breweries foster community. -The story of the unrecognized founding father Robert Morris. And more….

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB), WYAP, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
New book considers future of Minnesota's Iron Range
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
RDD: One House on the Block
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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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
Louie Fournier, logger and chainsaw collector, Cass Lake, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Call of the Wild
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Milt Lee speaks with Louie Fournier, logger and collector of chainsaws.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 2
"The Reckoning" By Jacob Soll
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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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
Design of the Movie Theater
From: Michael May
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Historian Larry May slips into one of his favorite places — the movie theater.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #50: The Diaper Wars
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In the 1980's, the world's two largest diaper companies set out to destroy each other, in a patent battle known as the Diaper Wars. The court battl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 17:55
  • Purchases: 1
Silicon Valley's Prehistoric Past
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Construction site at the Calaveras Dam in the East Bay hills.
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row
From: Radio Diaries
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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
All the Presidents' Bankers
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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