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Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
The Alabama 35
From: Robin Washington
Caption: The Duluth, Minn. delegation to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. gathers in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial to that city's 1920 lynching before boarding a bus for a 1,223-mile journey to Alabama in April., Credit: Julia Cheng
The fascinating journey of delegates from Duluth, Minn. - the scene of a horrific triple lynching in 1920 and the first city to erect a prominent m...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 47:57
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Planet P
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
Young John Adams
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05
Another Day in the Middle East...
From: Rob MacClanahan
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Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 11:51
The Book of Judith
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The spirit of Judith cries out to us even if the names of her enemies are masked, even if exiled to the Apocrypha, even though she was -- but a wom...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:31:22
Honest Abe departs Illinois and tales of three Valentinos
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:59
SON OF SAUL -- Géza Röhrig and László Nemes Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: László Nemes & Géza Röhrig, San Francisco, CA 12/12/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Géza Röhrig László Nemes talk psychic reality, earning our lives, and narrowing the field of vision.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 12:54
Pompey, Wenceslaus and Iran
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Pompey is assassinated... Wenceslaus is murdered... and the President of Iran would speak before the UN...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:35:31
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
Centerstage Minnesota: Charlie Pulkrabek Uses "Songs For Slim" As A Launching Point
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Bob "Slim" Dunlap
Sadly, Slim Dunlap, the second guitar player for The Replacements, has been suffering from serious health issues stemming originally from a stroke....

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Three Records from Sundown
From: Charles Maynes
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Producer Joe Boyd remembers musician Nick Drake.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Texas Music History: Townes Van Zandt
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of March (3/7): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the states most gifted songwriters who went ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
The Beat Goes On #108: "Time Has Told Me: The Songs of Nick Drake"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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A beautiful collection of songs written by one of the most influential songwriters of the past 50 years, Nick Drake. Program includes selections r...

Bought by KMUN and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 2
Digging Up Bones
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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Digging Up Bones

Bought by 'The Sea', WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Hammock House
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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The Hammock House

Bought by 'The Sea', WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WPSU and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Telephantom
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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The Telephantom

Bought by WPSU, WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 6
Abe Lincoln's Security Check
From: WHRV
Series: Halloween Haunts
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Abe Lincoln's Security Check

Bought by WPSU, WCBE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WPSU, KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 10
The Lo-Fi Ballad of Daniel Johnston
From: KUT
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He's been called the 'Brian Wilson of Indie Rock', but the true story's a little more complicated....

Bought by KUOW and PRX Administrator


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Song of a Troubled Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Orphan Train
From: Annie Wu
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Orphan Train riders re-live their journeys in search of a home in the West.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 33