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This is a special "Back to School" edition of The Closer, a series from Project Brazen and PRX that shares the inside story of the deals that chang...
Bought by WRKF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WLPR and more
- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 14
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 13:11
Wages and the living wage is our topic this program. Recently, there has been quite a bit of attention given to what we earn, the disparity of wage...
- Added: Apr 01, 2018
- Length: 51:26
Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 58:13
Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 29:08
The lack of rain has forced California farmers and wine makers to turn from the sky to the ground to find water. It’s down there, but you have to k...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 08:42
- Purchases: 4
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 2
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 1
Atlanta has plenty of bragging rights (The Olympics, Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-a, the Fox Theatre etc.), but perhaps one of our most iconic treasures is...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 20:05
Growing up as a retail pocket to serve Inman Park and Candler Park in the early 1900?s, L5P as it is affectionally known, developed organically. T...
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 16:51
Auburn Avenue was at one time known as Wheat Street. In 1893, a group of white citizens went to the city council and petitioned to change the name...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 23:40
When you imagine the built environment, the places that shape a city's culture, you probably think about stadiums and parks, skyscrapers and museum...
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 15:06
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Video game titans do battle.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
In 1917, an enormous fire ravaged 75 blocks of Atlanta, leaving 1 mile of destruction in its wake. To replant the seeds of commerce, the city of A...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 26:49
Get set for the twisted tale of Anna Marie Jarvis, the mother of Mother's Day. I'll warn you, it's not all hearts and flowers. While many of us kno...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 06:34
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 05:00
A fine cider revival could provide a lifeline to struggling New Hampshire apple growers.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 20, 2009
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 4
Myth blends in with facts to create history
- Added: Oct 18, 2008
- Length: :47
Should intelligent people say nothing when a wimpy little nothing of a man tries to blow half the world to kingdom come?
- Added: Aug 07, 2008
- Length: 03:31
- Added: Jun 05, 2008
- Length: 01:17
3 Generations talking about WEALTH
- Added: Nov 05, 2007
- Length: 59:59
- Added: Feb 17, 2006
- Length: 20:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 20, 2006
- Length: 07:33
- Added: May 11, 2005
- Length: 07:53
