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Caption: Host Martha Burk
Wake up and view the solar eclipse, last one 'til 2044. If you think really has no significance except crazy superstition, think again. Ancient voi...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Summer in August is known as “dog days” – hot and muggy, panting canines with tongues hanging out, alongside their disgruntled people. Some of th...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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The weather is cooling, the leaves are changing, and all of my neighbors are putting pumpkins on their porches. It got me thinking, what is the env...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2
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One question. Four choices. One answer. You now know in 90 seconds! Set of 4.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:26
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Will Rogers was a cowboy until the day he died. He visited ranches around the world to see that the cowboy way of life was still alive.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00
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Will Rogers proposed we could look at political change like we look at Groundhog Day.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:17
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Even though he wasn't a great student, Will Rogers knew the value of a good education.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00
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For as much as he poked fun at those who ran the nation, it was clear that Will loved America.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00
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Will loved to joke about politicians at all levels and on both sides

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A dog in the movie Pariah Dog, Credit: Pariah Dog the movie
The dogs that wander the streets in Kolkata are not strays, but part of an extended family, cared for and fed by many of the cities lesser known in...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Rod Clarance has traveled to more countries than you can shake a stick at. His Song Story is pulled from his memories of his first time in Europe.

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:22
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Furiture maker, Aspen Golann describes a handmade Nantucket Windsor chair.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:06
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Dianne Reeves can effortlessly sing in whatever style she wants with her far-reaching range, whether it’s rhythm-and-blues, gospel, Latin or pop. B...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
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Three short moments celebrating 2017 NEA Jazz Master, Dave Holland.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 11
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We move in a noisy world. Hear biomechanics professor Alaa Ahmed describe motor learning through modeling and commands. In this light, elite athlet...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 12:16
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NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission. Eddie Ramirez remembers a cruising in the newest car he'd ever owned, black, all pow...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2016
  • Length: 05:34
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Sly Watts performs his poem "Passion" in City Park.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:35
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Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: :58
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59
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A city girl, Sophie finds a tiny gap between her house and the next, wriggles through it and finds herself in a magical, secluded fairyland.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:49