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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning takes a look at some haunted houses and separates the historical facts from the ghost stories.
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2007
Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights
The life of...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Andrew Wyeth, an American artistic luminary, transcended the canvas to become a masterful chronicler of the human condition and the natural world. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 10:27
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 07:02
With Beyonce and Taylor Swift setting records with their two new concert films, we decided to offer up some other concert films for you to enjoy th...
Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KWIT, KSRQ, KECG and more
- Added: Dec 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we’ll explore the challenges surrounding conflicts around cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation invo...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Though some people dislike the idea, money has become an important and complex aspect of life. Many choose to invest in stocks and mutual funds, ho...
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Back in 1981, The Go Gos album Beauty and the Beat hit number one making it the first time an all woman rock band topped the charts. To that end, ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
A special broadcast marking 20 years of the PEACE TALKS RADIO series and podcast on peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution. On this annive...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI
- Added: Feb 13, 2023
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
To start each year, Rock School goes back every ten years to find out what this new year will be the anniversary for. We have a nice long list goi...
- Added: Jan 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
The Journey of Man, A Genetic Odyssey Around 60,000 years ago, a man – identical to us in all important genetic respects – lived in Africa. Every ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite World Ocean episodes that highlight optimism in ocean news, science and advocacy. In this episod...
- Added: Jun 20, 2022
- Length: 05:03
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820 to 2000
The development and the expansion of homes, where they are and why they came to be ...
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we speak with an author who dives into the efforts of "committed citizens" trying to change the world. We'll ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 58:57
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we speak with an author who dives into the efforts of "committed citizens" trying to change the world. We'll...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In June, 2002 I overheard an American woman now living in Israel passionately describe her belief that teaching children to be suicide bombers is t...
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Imagine leaving home and traveling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to co...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
There are clear lines that connect the legacy of slavery to many of our present day issues, including the racial inequities of COVID-19 infection a...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 19
We dig into the history of a once-unacknowledged African burial ground in East New York, Brooklyn, and ask how a new library branch can honor that ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 33:36
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
This Independence Day special explores how Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. viewed equality. We also learn about our first president,...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, KUHF, Wyoming Public Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 52:56
- Purchases: 8
In this program, we are going to go back into California history about 150 years, and visit with the last Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico....
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
