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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - What are you doing for the holidays this year? We know we need to keep it small, keep it safe. But maybe we c...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: The Wine Fellers
A funny look at the things French People Find Strange About The U.S.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Taff Roberts gives his presentation at the Historic Bunnell House in Winona MN
On this very special Halloween edition of The Live Feed, Winonan Taff Roberts takes us on a ghastly journey to main and then drops us off in Pickwi...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 49:51
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Southern songwriter who penned Polk Salad Annie and Rainy Night In Georgia sat down with us to talk about his newest CD, Hoodoo.

Bought by KMUW, WRNC-LP, Delta College Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of December (12/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped build a gospel music empire.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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In honor of National Poetry Month, Distillations looks at Lord Byron and his classic Don Juan. Also, opium and The Age of Wonder.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 11:41
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What do Isaac Newton, yeast, and Harold Urey have in common?

  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 12:28
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Women scientists, past and present.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 2
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A look at self-sacrificing scientists and home DNA test kits.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2008
  • Length: 11:55
  • Purchases: 1