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Gossip! Backstabbing! Burn Books! Mortified celebrates the 13th anniversary of Mean Girls with stories of tyrannical kids. Featuring an interview D...
- Added: May 21, 2017
- Length: 25:27
Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...
- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Like cigarettes or leaded petrol, it seems boredom is gradually being phased out. The mobile phones we carry everywhere allow for an infinite varie...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 21:27
- Purchases: 1
Was your best friend is a fictional person? Our Unlikely Celebrity Obsession series continues with the story of a boy who wrote letters to an 80's ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 19:44
Durga Puja and Diwali bookend our festival season in Kolkata. But there’s an ancillary festival that’s almost as important. It needs as much plann...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In honor of Halloween, mortifying tales about the kind of fears kids actually have.
- Added: Oct 23, 2016
- Length: 26:34
This particular Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is the first in a series of three concerning the Untold Story of Immigration in our area. As ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 28:35
In a world where consumer choice is deified, multi-cuisine’s stock keeps going up, no matter its quality.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack finds the city of St. Cloud inund...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
Two friends set out a few years ago to create a fun event; hoping to bring joy to a few people's lives for just a day. The result of their grass ro...
- Added: Jun 25, 2016
- Length: 30:47
While the world was marking the passing of Muhammad Ali, another giant in the world of sports in India died in Kolkata to far less notice.
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Steve Downing shares his essay on the difficulty of supporting early artists whose talents may not be ready for public consumption.
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 07:50
India and Pakistan have much in common but, lately an angel in purple has united the prickly neighbors in gobsmacked amazement.
- Added: Apr 18, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
This piece is about the absurdity that gay marriage will hurt a heterosexual marriage.
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 02:58
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 20:24
- Purchases: 1
It's cathartic; it's a useful historical record; and it might help you behave better on public transport. Neil Katcher and Dave Nadelberg from Mort...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 18:58
The future of no driver cars is fast approaching as described in this delightful newscast!
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 04:00
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer from the podcast Criminal stop by to talk about the linguistic challenges of crime reporting. They also share their...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 23:05
