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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 01:46
Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort
- Added: Jul 06, 2014
- Length: 01:25
Our “Reading Chekhov” series culminates in a full hour on the Russian physician who spun the small happenings of old Russia into some of the most p...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
In the last few decades, the general belief that habitual, high-octane swearing should remain the domain of criminals, vagrants, and frustrated hou...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 06:35
In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:21
For the second week of March (3/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a preacher’s son who helped launch a rock star’s c...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of December (12/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a self-proclaimed white trash musician who helpe...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of September (9/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who straddled both political and cul...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
For the third week of March (3/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a blues legend who also made some of the first know...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of February (2/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing group that was founded in the 1800s b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:33
For the third week of January (1/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who played auto harp and sang folksongs b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of January (1/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female R&B artist who is a triple th...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of November (11/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was born the son of a former slave...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of June (6/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the epicenter of Houston’s “Summer of Love.”
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at some musicians who really knew how to honk their horns.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of May (5/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the “other Carter Family” of American roots music.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of January (1/29): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a jazz musician who gained fame playing country mu...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Off the Beat explores secret spaces around Providence, including the abandoned underground railroad tunnel, Keeney tunnels, and some less literal p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:47
April Fool’s Day piece. New Hampshire hunters ‘discover’ 15,000 year old human remains. The finding leads to political discussion about replacing O...
- Added: Apr 01, 2009
- Length: 06:48
We learned from the Velveteen Rabbit how toys become real. But all things become real and emerge daily from the secret source at the back of my clo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 05:00
A collection of handpicked songs exploring the sounds of three prominent members of the mallet family of percussive instruments - Xylophones, Vibes...
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 58:55
- Added: Mar 07, 2008
- Length: 08:01
- Purchases: 2
John Waters & The Hellfire Club: an audio stop on a tour of Creative Time's 33 Years of Public Art series
- Added: Mar 04, 2008
- Length: 02:19
