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We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 28:49
- Purchases: 2
Marielle Heller and Bel Powley talk hormones, patriarchy, and the importance of bangs.
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 12:03
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 23:44
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...
Bought by WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Kelly Jones and scholar Barbara Meek talk through Hollywood Indian English - a grammatical stereotype that often endures in today's media ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
For nearly 75 years, children from the orphanages of New York and other cities were shipped west to families in the West who needed farm labor. Som...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 2
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Filmmaker Debbie Lum talks facing her fears, keeping the conversation going, and why she ended up as a character in her own documentary.
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 14:25
This week on War News Radio, “Peace News in Wartime”, we discuss the role of Morocco in the Arab Spring. Then, we learn about the process of establ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 30:01
Reverend Eric Williams tells his co-worker Jannette Berkley-Patton about his first experience with AIDS.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 2
Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about volunteering at the polls nearly every Election Day for 20 years.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 4
Special education teacher Ken Rensink tells his friend Laurel Hill-Ward how surviving a near-fatal car crash influenced his teaching.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Rian Johnson talks whimsy, unintended consequences, and the illusion of quick fixes.
- Added: Sep 23, 2012
- Length: 11:47
U.S. Navy veteran Denny Meyer remembers what it was like to be gay and a sailor in the late 1960s.
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WDBM, WEZU, KMUD, KISU and more
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 8
Max Good and Nate Wollman talk passion, law-breaking, and late-night stake-outs in the world of graffiti artists and the buffers who hate them.
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 19:10
It’s no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it’s among the top contributors to carbon di...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...
- Added: Mar 05, 2009
- Length: 04:30
Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbo...
- Added: Dec 05, 2008
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 2
One {....} of a captain. Kathy Broughton grew up in Birmingham Alabama but soon learned fishing from
Bought by WBHM
- Added: Aug 01, 2008
- Length: 11:10
- Purchases: 1
