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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
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
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
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
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
Julie Crabb moved to the tiny town of Meadowlands from California. It was a move that changed her life for the better. Hear all about it in this ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 10:48
Akins High School has an annual fall festival called Blue and Gold Night. It's a night with many activities, including a pig kissing "contest." Pro...
- Added: Dec 20, 2019
- Length: 04:19
Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
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
The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 33:17
- Purchases: 2
When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...
- Added: May 09, 2018
- Length: 12:37
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
At the turn of the century, Carry Nation was “America’s foremost lady hellraiser” and “the apostle of reform violence.” In her own words, she was “...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 23:24
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
A funny look at the things French People Find Strange About The U.S.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with author Connie Lounsbur...
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 29:58
Steve Harwin bought his first diner in 1987...and has been preserving this special part of American history ever since. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg caught...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 18:05
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
Everybody loves Grand Marais' World's Best Donuts--so WTIP's Julie Carlson invited second- and third-generation donut makers Dee Brazell and Stacey...
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 23:54
Local historian Bill Pagel, who runs the Dylan website boblinks.com, has an enormous collection of Dylan memorabilia. He's chosen some of the best ...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 19:08
- Purchases: 1
Beltrami county celebrate its sesquicentennial this year, a fact not lost on the Beltrami County Historical Society. Dan Karalus, Executive Directo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 10:23
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
A teenage misfit tries to empower himself by taking on the persona of a medieval Scottish King.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 21:44
- Purchases: 1
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
