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Episode 2: Settling Down
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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For over 10,000 years, communities grew in the desert, with elaborate roads and structures that remain today. The complexity of Chaco Canyon’s arch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 19:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: Footprints
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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We begin 23,000 years ago at what is today called White Sands National Park with footprints discovered in the sands that tell a story of a mom, her...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 20:24
  • Purchases: 2
Breaking the Habit
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The botanical name of our 3 needle per fascicle (bundle) Chihuahuan pine is Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana. Further south into Mexico where the ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 04:35
Le Quatro Volte Review
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
Asclepias Lemmonii
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
Condalia correllii in the Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
Coral Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Bigtooth Maple
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The bigtooth maple is no longer in its own family of Aceraceae, but is in Sapindaceae. Molecular taxonomy keeps us plant geeks on our toes.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:29
The Melampus Daisy
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:28
Fall Festival of Fall Blooming Asteraceae
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:19
Mountain Oxeye and Red Bordered Satyrs, Oh My!
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:03
Watersheds and Fire
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn about watersheds, and what happens to them after a wildfire. Watersheds which provide the water source fo...

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221107: Watersheds and Fire, 11/7/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn about watersheds, and what happens to them after a wildfire. Watersheds which provide the water source fo...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Little Free Libraries
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

Bought by KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221031: Little Free Libraries, 10/31/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Being A Leader
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Kids Crew talk with Grammy nominated children's musician, educator, Emmy winning TV producer and Durham NC City Councilor, Pierce Freelon about...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
20221017: Being A Leader, 10/17/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Kids Crew talk with Grammy nominated children's musician, educator, Emmy winning TV producer and Durham NC City Councilor, Pierce Freelon about...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Running
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Kids Crew explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of running with blind Olympic champion runner George Mendoza, kids and adults...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK, WVTF, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221010: Running, 10/10/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Kids Crew explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of running with blind Olympic champion runner George Mendoza, kids and adults...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Whales
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about the largest animal on earth, that still can be found swimming in our oceans today: whales.

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Alphabet Rockers
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Kids Crew on The Children's Hour are joined by two time Grammy nominees, Alphabet Rockers for a lively discussion about the power of music to c...

Bought by KCHU, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220926: Whales, 9/26/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about the largest animal on earth, that still can be found swimming in our oceans today: whales.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Wolves
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore wolves. We learn about their role as an apex predator, and how conservation efforts are saving them fr...

Bought by KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 12
WOS 22-12 / LAP 22-12: Southern California’s leading performing arts institution, 9/6/2022
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The WFMT Orchestra Series
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On this week's broadcast from the LA Philharmonic... Alle Menschen werden Brüder - "All people will become brothers and sisters." Gustavo Dudamel c...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Whistles & Flutes
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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On this episode of The Children's Hour, we explore the oldest wind instruments in the world: whistles and flutes through stories, poetry and music,...

Bought by KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10

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