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Caption:  Nadav Schirman, Gonen Ben Yitzak, and Mossab Hassan Yousef, San Francisco, CA 7/25/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak talk hope, perspective, and first meetings.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 24:34
Caption: Cosimo Matassa at the mixing desk
A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
Caption: Magen David Synagogue in Kolkata, India, Credit: Ashok Sinha
A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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The Star Bar indirectly gets its name from the intersecting streets eponymously influencing one of Atlanta’s most unique communities, Little 5 Poin...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 14:17
Caption: Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
As New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has grown over the course of the past four decades, so has the tension between local and national acts.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
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Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The slave cabin in the foreground with Montpelier in the background., Credit: Kelley Libby
For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But cabins like that are now ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 10:33
  • Purchases: 1
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This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
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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
Caption: PAST: Abandoned rail’s rough trail will soon be improved and ready for the walk-bike-jog set.
There are only two other projects in the history of Atlanta with an impact on par with what the Atlanta BeltLine will deliver. One is Hartsfield-Ja...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 22:17
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Typically on Sidewalk Radio we choose dynamic topics that are in a state of flux. The BeltLine, The Clermont Hotel, The Art Show, as recent exampl...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 26:06
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There is Broadway in New York, Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Sunset in LA, and Bourbon in New Orleans, but Peachtree Street is more than famous, it i...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 33:49
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Even though the whole “green” theme fad is becoming obnoxious, we’re happy to say that it certainly seems like the “sustainability” trend is here t...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 22:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Social drinking, instead of drinking to simply survive, has been around for about 8000 years. Atlanta’s place in the beverage business, and in Ame...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:05
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Freedom Park’s relevance in Atlanta history dates back to the Civil War. On July 22, 1864, Sherman watched the city burn during the Battle of Atla...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 20:12
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The railroad, the Olympics, Coca-Cola and CNN, are all huge contributors to the development and prowess of Atlanta as a business center and to its ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 19:26
Caption: KALW's Hana Baba with Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
KALW’s Hana Baba met up with the former president during his recent stop in San Francisco to talk with him about his book, and the issues facing wo...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
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The Cyclorama is not a place to race bicycles, it's home to an incredibly historic painting portraying the Battle of Atlanta, a turning point in US...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 14:17
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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
Caption: Once on the brink of extinction, the Peregrine Falcon is back, and hanging out at The Four Seasons!
The United States can claim as one of our most lofty inventions, the skyscraper. George A. Fuller’s solution for “load bearing capacities” lead to...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:49
Caption: Duke Ellington and his band, Credit: Photo by Michael Ricci
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
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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
Caption: Ambassador Car
Sandip Roy takes one last ride in India's Ambassador motor car.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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The history of Shakespeare outdoors

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 31:16