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Guiding thoughts to live by. All sorts of music and one spoken word (Martin Luther King Jr).

  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:58:46
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
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The Anniversary of the Death of the Hippie

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
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You use it to help design devices that end up in more than your kitchen.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:22:46
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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
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Welcome home!!! Join Warrior Blue Tarp Tenali for a Part III mashup of 16+ years of field recordings he's made at rainbow gatherings around the wor...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:52:11
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The unnatural history of a carbonated drink.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
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Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:23:48
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Interactive media means bringing in the least and most uncommon denominators so to do interactive radio, it's gotta be really simple. Especially S...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
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John and Carol met in 1964 when a computer dating service matched them up. This December, they will have been married for 52 years.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: World's Best Donuts, Grand Marais, Minn.
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
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Lester Blackiston was the pirate of Shockoe Bottom. He was a minor Beat poet, a questionable inventor, a man who avoided work at all costs. He had ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 23:27
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On this episode of The Live Feed we bring you The Winona Municipal Band and its 2016 season. You will hear selections such as Ballad and Dance from...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 50:47
Caption: Ancient Romans created this statuary to memorialize the two finger, five beer joke they loved so much., Credit: Pompeii Statue Photographers, Inc.
The non-commercial music that influenced popular music and rock and roll. Ah, that's the same as every week and who really cares about that? T...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:14
Caption: Myles Standish reenactor
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
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Not always short and seldom to the point.

Bought by KSRQ, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
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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
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Visiting old friends one year at a time.

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Album review for New Jersey band Titus Andronicus's break out Lit-Punk album The Monitor. By Paolo Rosen

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
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Selected shorts (at least until the last 10 minutes or so)

Bought by KKRN, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KEOS and more


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
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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