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Trees, menorahs, and hair caught on fire.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:29
There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 07:56
Will you visit your library this summer? To kick off a season of reading, we thought we'd have some fun! How many Brooklyn and library trivia quest...
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 28:49
Sisters Suzi and Donna Wong remember growing up in the back of their parents’ laundry business in Hollywood, CA.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.
Bought by Vermont Public
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
In 1532 the Spanish found out what everyone in South America already knew--potatoes are amazing. But when they brought them back to Europe the rece...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Series: Women in the Austin Music Scene
Punk Musician & Creator of Community Record Store, Kana Harris merges all. This story was produced by Mary Hollyman, Tony Plata, and Cynthia Luna w...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 02:37
Kay Johnston Massar tells her husband, Cy Massar, about being the first girl to play Little League baseball.
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 21:32
John and Carol met in 1964 when a computer dating service matched them up. This December, they will have been married for 52 years.
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 2
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...
Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 10:32
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 39:29
When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 14:42
- Purchases: 3
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:05
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
If you look beyond the new restaurants, cafés and boutique shops, on Valencia Street there are hints of what gave this neighborhood the reputation ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 08:24
California seems to be getting it from both sides. The state is in a serious drought at the same time coastal areas are studying ways to avoid bein...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:46
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 07, 2014
- Length: 01:46
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 01:53
