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In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 3
Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 4
Seventy-five years ago this month President Roosevelt signed an executive order ordering all Japanese Americans into internment camps, including th...
Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.
Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:34:05
Linda LeGarde Grover's new poetry collection explores the lives of the Ojibwe people through challenge and resilience, heartache and joy. "The Sky ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 03:50
Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 11:51
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
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 19:55
Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 02:38:59
Géza Röhrig László Nemes talk psychic reality, earning our lives, and narrowing the field of vision.
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 12:54
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
Pompey is assassinated... Wenceslaus is murdered... and the President of Iran would speak before the UN...
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 02:35:31
On top of the highest hill in San Francisco is the Mount Davidson Cross -- a monument to the Armenian Genocide. Friday, April 24th marks 100 years ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
This audio was recorded in 2008 when I asked my uncle Mike Alexander to talk about his service as a bombardier in World War II. Mike was a proud Je...
- Added: Dec 27, 2014
- Length: 13:10
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
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A Hill Country Treasure, the Georgetown Palace Theatre-from the Depression through today, a radio profile of a town’s beloved venue.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:58
Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez has written a poignant and bittersweet baseball story with sporting, political and historical allusions- and the a...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
Sadly, Slim Dunlap, the second guitar player for The Replacements, has been suffering from serious health issues stemming originally from a stroke....
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
On New Years Eve day of 1957, Orville Gibson, a farmer in Newbury, Vermont went out to milk his cows. He was never seen alive again. The mystery of...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 30:27
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Sowande' Mustakeem reveals the forgotten world of 18th century slave ships, sharing the story of one enslaved woman and discussing why it's so ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 11:31
- Purchases: 1
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...
- Added: Oct 12, 2013
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 2
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
An ode to the late great infomercial host and to the realization that we all hunger for something.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 3
