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Millennial History
From: Andrea Voets
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In Millennial History, we relive recent history through the eyes of millennials who were there when it happened. The murder of anti-mafia judge Fal...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:39:06
The Big Ponder #37: Street Names
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #31: Winterreise
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Alex Michaelides
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Beth Milligan talks with Alex Michaelides, author of "The Silent Patient" and "The Maidens."

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
619: Is War Ever Worth It? / 620: Is The Universe A Number?, 9/11/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Is War Ever Worth It?' - On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, photographer James Nachtwey reflects on his life as a war photographer, a...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - A Corner of Space and Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Lee Nye's portrait of Joe Malatare
Jean Belangie-Nye, Aaron Teasdale, and Ben Ferencz discuss their book, "A Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nye's Eddie's Club Portraits."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
History of Stereo Photography with Bob Taunt
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we talk to local historian and stereo photography buff, Bob Taunt. Bob recently gave a presentation about the history o...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:06
Lives in Music: the man who brought you the Beat and Fine Young Cannibals
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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In this edition of Lives in Music, Robin Valk talks with John Mostyn, who has been, if anything, more involved with more music that almost anyone i...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 44:20
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Martyrdom of Francisco Ferrer: A Conversation with Mark Bray
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Engraving on marble reproduction of the painting of the execution of Francisco Ferrer, made by Flavio Costantini. Behind the soldiers, two monks, a bourgeois and a civil guard attend the execution.
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
The Author of the Declaration of Independence
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women and the Gold Rush Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Kate Magruder, who portrays Louise Smith Clapp, who, under the pen name Dame Shirley, documented Califor...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:02
The Revolutionary Heart and Life of Clarina Nichols
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio curious revisits a conversation with Diane Eickhoff, who portrays early women's rights activist Clarina Nichols in this chautauquan style int...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance (Celene Lillie) ENCORE
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: The Rape of Eve by Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 3
Boilermaker Classics
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Purdue Boilermakers, Credit: Purdue
We’ll hear music about trains, and learn some little known facts and myths about Purdue on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Underground Railroad in New Bedford, Massachusetts
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Rooster and the Moonster
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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Georgetown Preservation Society's attorney talks about their case against El Dorado County

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 15:58
American Cougars
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Everything you didn't want to know about mountain lions!

  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:00:01
State of Jefferson
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
Caption: Seal of the State of Jefferson, Credit: wikipedia.com
"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:21:46
Meet the Last Mexican Governor of California
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with the last Mexican Governor of California, Pio Pico, as portrayed by historian Roberto Garza. Pico fled California during ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
The Glass Sho: Episode 30 (Allan Kozinn)
From: Chris McGovern
Series: The Glass Sho
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Author/music journalist Allan Kozinn discusses The Beatles' remastered mono LPs, the "Paul is Dead" rumor/phenomenon, and other things Beatle-related.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:39:42
Episode 8: Stuttering, Dancing, and Detours
From: Faye Reiff-Pasarew
Series: The Art Of Medicine Podcast
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Using creative adaptation to overcome the bugs in our systems

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 24:35
The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: URS Corporation archaeologists excavate at a site beside I-95 in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia., Credit: Mariel Carr
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 36:50
  • Purchases: 1