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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...
Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Sounds Jewish welcomes Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, with songs from around the Jewish world.
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
![Caption: A statue of Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso in Sorrento, Italy, his birthplace., Credit: Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup [via Flickr]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/736169/Sorrento_TT2_Dave___Margie_Hill_square.jpg)
Jenna Soleo Shanks, Assistant Professor of Theater History at UMD, grew up surrounded by her Italian American family on Long Island. Later in life ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 08:37
Will Rogers thought about peace often, but didn't always trust it
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: :59
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Desiree Clark and Xakk Asphodel about this ...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 29:54
- Purchases: 1
Join Patrick Moore and Timothy Roberts, the director and deputy director of New Mexico Historic Sites, who together with interpreters and educators...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 1
Author and scholar Nancy Brown Diggs joins World Footprints to peel back the layers of Appalachian culture that she uncovers in her new book, In Se...
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 30:36
Will Rogers shares his humor about Presidents and the elections that get to that position.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 03, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
Will Rogers once performed for a sitting US President. Find out how it went.
- Added: Oct 05, 2020
- Length: :59
Will's was born on Election Day, which set the perfect tone for his political humor and commentary
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 01:01
What do fathers really want to celebrate their day? Will gives his thoughts.
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Will Rogers not only promoted the cowboy lifestyle, he lived it
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: :59
Will believed that doing something your own way, even if it doesn't work, is better than doing the same thing as everyone else
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: :59
While Rogers was known for his love of baseball, he had some great things to say about football, as well
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: :59
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
Celebrate Labor Day with our discussion on the history and culture of barbecue.
Bought by WVTF, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KTXK, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 54:46
- Purchases: 7
Will Rogers was known internationally, but he made his reputation by treating everyone with the same respect
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00
Host Gwen Thompkins makes an exclusive visit to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY, guided through Armstrong’s rare recordings and life...
Bought by KCNP
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today
- Added: Mar 05, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Today on Art Beat we are with Blake and Jennifer to talk about the film Voices of the Winona Armory, which was one of the films shown at Frozen Riv...
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 15:02
Unhappy with contemporary America, Avery Thompson travels to Plymouth, Massachusetts to consult the man responsible for bringing his family to thes...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2018
- Length: 12:13
- Purchases: 1
Technology's grip on us: the 4-1-1 on what's behind your selfie; an artist's computer simulation shows humans aren't as unique as we think; and how...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
François Clemmons played Officer Clemmons on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." He came to StoryCorps to discuss the role and his life.
Bought by WITF, WMUU-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 5
Ben Stein is a huge rock n roll fan. This week we hear what he has to say about the impact music has had on the world.
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
