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20240219: Negro Baseball Leagues, 2/19/2024
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 from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Falling Into Autumn
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

Bought by KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20230911: Falling Into Autumn, 9/11/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
20230102: A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special, 1/2/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore the unique history of our region: the high desert southwest United States in the radio special of our ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore the unique history of our region: the high desert southwest United States in the radio special of our ...

Bought by KECG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
King Denslow
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The Wizard of Oz started as a perfect partnership between L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow -- until they became bitter rivals, with each owning half ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 12:22
  • Purchases: 3
Unlocking Family History & Frida Kahlo
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Mrs. Antillon's 2nd Grade Historians, Credit: Katie Stone
We learn about using music to pull out family stories from our elders, and 2nd graders teach us about the legendary painter, Frida Kahlo

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 110: Baby Snatcher
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 36:44
Digging Up the Dirt Behind Cemetery Statue of A Boy and His Dog
From: renee wilde
Series: WYSO CURIOUS
Caption: Johnny Morehouse Memorial, Credit: Renee Wilde
Johnny was the son of a local cobbler who fell into an old canal that cut through the center of Dayton where Patterson Boulevard now runs. His belo...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Free to Be at Forty
From: Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Temple University
Caption: Free to Be....You and Me album cover (1972), Credit: Free to Be Foundation
In 2014, Free to Be... You and Me, the iconic feminist children's album, turned forty. Despite its age, the music and its message of gender equalit...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:12
All Mixed Up with Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: MLK Jr-Washington,DC 1963
A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place in August 1963, with new mixes featuring Israel Kamakaw...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KVMR, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 26
Memories of the Traveling Carnival
From: Traveling 219
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In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:21
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 6
The Retroactive Radio Ensemble celebrates Service
From: Third Coast Live Radio Theater
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A short, lighthearted look at the significance of service played out with the "Retroactive Radio Ensemble" Series. In this piece, we feature orally...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2009
  • Length: 04:38
The One-Room School in the Twenty-First Century
From: Neenah Ellis
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Veteran producer Neenah Ellis travels to rural communities in the US to visit some of the last remaining one-room schools.

Bought by WNIJ, KUT-HD, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WCBU, WKSU and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 32
The Orphan Train
From: Annie Wu
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Orphan Train riders re-live their journeys in search of a home in the West.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 33