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EPISODE #130 “Sarah Bernhardt!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Sarah Bernhardt was a world renowned actress and in this episode of Did This Happen? we visit her backstage on the evening of her American Stage de...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #129 “The Star Spangled Banner!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Francis Scott Key wrote what would become the National Anthem for the United States. The question is, is what we sing now in the form he meant it t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
EPISODE #128 “Doubleday & Baseball!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Abner Doubleday. Civil War General and baseball inventor? Explore how Doubleday may have become associated with America’s Pasttime in this episode ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #127 “Mary Had A Little Lamb!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Is the classic rhyme MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB based on actual events? We explore this possibility in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #126 “Times Square Ball!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Every year a large ball drops in Times Square to usher in the New Year. We take a look at the beginings of that tradition in today’s episode of Did...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #125 “The Night Before Christmas!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Did Clement Clarke Moore get his inspiration from real life stories? We explore that on today’s episode of Did This Happen?!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #124 “Christmas Cards!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley came up with the very first Christmas cards. But exactly why did they do so? Find out on today’s episode o...

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
EPISODE #123 “The Landing Of The Pilgrims!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
In December of 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In this episode of Did This Happen? we are there to get their first impressions of their...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #122 “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
In 1927, balloons of cartoon characters were introduced to the Macy’s Thanksgving Day Parade! Find out what happened to those balloons when they we...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #121 “Franksgiving!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
In 1939, President Franklin Delano actually moved Thanksgiving up a week! Find out the reasons why in this episode of Did This Happen?!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 5 - Women Composers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, was a talented pianist and composer too. A look at Fanny and other women composers.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, and KUHF


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 4 - Child Prodigy Composers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Felix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy. Hear about other composers who started just as early -- or even earlier.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 3 - Music Based on Shakespeare
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Classics For Kids
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A look at music inspired by the work of William Shakespeare.

Bought by WMNR, KUHF, WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 6
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 2 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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Mendelssohn's music illustrates many of the characters and situations in Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Classics for Kids - September 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Program 1 - About Felix Mendelssohn
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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The life and music of Felix Mendelssohn.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 4
Indian Why Stories 4
From: Roy Trumbull
Series: Storyspieler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Indian Why Stories collected and published by Frank Bird Linderman and narrated by Roy Trumbull

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 27:21
Peter Pan (aka Peter and Wendy) by James M. Barrie
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the Peter Pan novel that was published seven years after the play and fleshed out all the characters.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Compact Discoveries 195: Strange Musical Animals
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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"Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant" features such strange musical animals as the Pop-up toadsters, the Circular Sawtoise, the Clocktopus, and the Ballp...

Bought by KENW and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
A Dog's Life
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
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What Fred Flaxman learned about life from his childhood dog, Buster.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Lora and Neil Johnson talk about The Night I Met Santa and Resorts of Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Lora and Neil join Heidi from their car and driveway, for a conversation about each of their new books.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 18:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Gordon Fredrickson: Stories from the 1950's Farm Life
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we feature Minnesota author and farmer Gordon Fredrickson. Gordon writes children's books that reflect real life even...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KVSC, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 40:59
  • Purchases: 4
Pedro's Christmas Fables
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Christmas Programming
Caption: Charming New Christmas Modules Your Listeners Will Love!, Credit: Lorie Kellogg, Joe Bevilacqua
A new collection of twelve 2 to 7 minute charming holiday modules by noted Spanish author Pedro Pablo Sacristan, produced by Joe Bevilcqua. Great...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 01:04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Short List #5
From: David Green
Series: Short Lists
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A collaborative “Short List” which sheds light on the fears of eight and nine-year-olds – some obvious, some less so. Can you figure out what torna...

Bought by PRX Remix and YouthCast


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: :42
  • Purchases: 2
Island Childhood
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
Caption: 1948, Credit: Swan's Island Memory Project
Swan’s Islanders share their childhood memories of growing up on the island.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Jackknife Incident
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
Caption: Bernita Joyce, Credit: Meghan Vigeant
The battle between a kid’s fun and her parents.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:31