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Two-hundred years ago, an Italian aristocrat traveled to the Northwoods of present-day Minnesota in an attempt to make a name for himself. He wante...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 06:58
Ghuan Featherstone came to StoryCorps with his mentee Jordan Humphreys to talk about their shared love of horses and horseback riding.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
If Beluga whales treat a Narwhal like he’s been one of their own, who’s to say he isn’t?
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Open-sea yacht rendezvous, off-book private jet landings and direct lines of communication to the highest echelons of power are usually the stuff o...
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 12:24
The superbloom is upon us, as is the superbloom mob. St. Minerva help us all!
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
One man's vision led to a vinyl-only record company producing albums of spoken-word horror literature. And the craziest part? It's flourishing.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jan 20, 2018
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
When Wally Funk was 8 years old, she jumped off the roof of her barn while wearing a Superman cape, hoping to fly. That desire never left her, and ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 02:32
Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 04:40
A story about party life at Syracuse University, which was ranked number one party school by the Princeton Review in 2014.
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 03:15
Whether he likes it or not, Sam has become the go-to source for all of our questions, from showing him photos of weird bugs we want him to identify...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 21:41
Denis Du Bois takes listeners on a 10-minute tour of energy technologies shown at the the Innovation Expo at the GLOBE Environmental Conference
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 14:06
The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 36:05
Les Claypool never rests. Whether he’s dealing with his most famous band, Primus, leading his Frog Brigade, or jamming with his new friend Sean Le...
Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 4
Highlights of the top Republicans debating in the first contest for the 2016 nomination, with typically apolitical commentary by Rob MacClanahan
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 03:01:45
A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 17:53
Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 20:21
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of CLASSICAL DARK ARTS, we look at Satan’s cabal of classical composers, players and theorists — a sleeper cell run by Liszt, Pagan...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 23:51
Jim Heath, a.k.a. the Reverend Horton Heat, and I chat about his latest LP, REV. This rocking mix of words and music produced for KVMR radio …
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 14:33
The weekend is a time for relaxing or maybe going to dinner and a show with friends. One typical scenario is you meet up with them, get dinner. Now...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 1
You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 12:06
- Purchases: 1
A man and his date accidentally decide to buy a Christmas tree.
- Added: Dec 15, 2011
- Length: 03:52
Poop talk: when its personal, its embarrassing—at least for most people—but when you’re talking about global access to sanitary conditions, it’s a ...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 1
What makes a neighborhood known for cool...cool? The people? The places? A little of both. This is a SilverLake Tale about Joe Keeper and his shop-...
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...
- Added: Jun 22, 2010
- Length: 57:43