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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Advertising has had a major effect on how we view our bodies and on our individual self-im...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today
- Added: Mar 05, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain That Has Gone Wild
In this Halloween, 1997, edition of Radio Curious, I spoke with Nicols Fox, the...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Terminal Velocity
The concept of memoir versus fiction leads many authors to transform their personal experiences and life to fiction. Blanche Boy...
- Added: Feb 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Three musical acts are featured - Sisters Morales, Irene Farerra and Bonnie Bluhm - from recordings made by Paul Ingles during the 1999 Folk Allian...
Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech and Sexual Harassment
Certain words, said at the wrong time or place, may get a person into a heap of trouble. ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The decade that became known as “The Jazz Age” consisted of a lot more than the music. The youth became style conscious thanks in large part to pop...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The word millet is a term from the Ottoman Empire that ruled parts of Europe Central to the Near East from 1430 to 1921 and means “a recognized peo...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Generational discussion on birth defects
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 51:26
The Wisdom of the Body
From developmental perspectives, both in individuals and in mankind as a whole, the brain, language, and civilization have ...
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Wayne Knight, an artist based in Mendocino County, California with over 40 years of experience, traveled very little before he found himself in Phn...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Stockton, CA, has been called the most diverse community in the world. Fourteen distinct and primary languages are spoken in the Stockton area elem...
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We like to think of America as a country that, until recently, welcomes immigrants. In reality, that’s never been the case. You may have read abou...
- Added: Dec 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Few moments in American history have held the tension of the early 1970s. The nation was fundamentally divided between the jaded counter-culture an...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Attorney Linda Kremer, a Public Defender in Marin County, California, worked for thirteen months in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, in 1996 and 1997 as Direc...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Older, Middle and Younger generations guests discuss the nature of female sex drive over time.
- Added: Nov 18, 2019
- Length: 51:26
Love Invents Us
Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the e...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and politica...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Chaim Potok, the author of “The Chosen,” “The Gift of Asher Lev,”Davida’s Heart,” and many other novels, chronicled the life of a Russian Jewish fa...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We humans like to discuss all kinds of topics, but we seem to have trouble when it comes to sex. We are very interested in it even though our comfo...
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 51:26
Musicians were known to violate their recordings contracts fairly regularly in the 1920s. It’s the old story that the talent was underpaid. So, it ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Greening of America & Opposing the System
The market economy often seems to have many inherent problems. Indeed, a Marxist historical view pre...
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
There is strong historical and anthropological evidence that dogs came across the Bering land bridge with people migrating from Siberia to Alaska. ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Some of the most studied glaciers in the world are found in Glacier Bay National Park located in southeastern Alaska. These expansive ice sheets co...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories for Creative Forces
Series: Stories for Creative Forces
Gary Emmert was interviewed by Cherry Woodburn about his military experience. Gary enlisted when he was 18-years-old as a combat engineer, and reti...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 06:37
