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Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 05:45
Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 05:45
The star... the origin and history of the Christmas tree... and oh, it's a wonderful life!
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 02:27:46
World renowned country music recording artist Suzy Bogguss performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, int...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 58:59
A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:22:46
Welcome to our coverage of the 2017 season of the Winona Municipal Band, Directed by Levi Lundak. The band has been entertaining locals for 102 yea...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 55:22
The entire 1951 movie is narrated -- and commented on -- in this sound-rich radio show...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 02:36:58
When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...
Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 4
The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of one Rob Roy MacGregor...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:29:26
One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 03:54
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:15
There’s a new season brewing for a television series about the Salem Witch Trials. A scholar puts one of the witches under the spotlight. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 3
"The Butler" didn't do it - or so says real-life White House butler Alan DeValerio.
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 06:15
The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...
Bought by KENW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
On The evening of June 9th, the Winona community gathered at the Historic Huff Lamberton House for one of the most anticipated events of the summer...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 35:48
- Purchases: 1
Off the Beat explores secret spaces around Providence, including the abandoned underground railroad tunnel, Keeney tunnels, and some less literal p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:47
A 20-something pianist is making old-time piano new again... with a little help from Darth Vader and Super Mario Bros.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
West Side Story, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Amadeus, Wicked-- You may not know Chic Silber, but you probably know at least some of the spectacles ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 08:09
Every year, thousands of people flock to Austin from all over the world for South by Southwest Music, which officially gets underway today. Many v...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
April Fool’s Day piece. New Hampshire hunters ‘discover’ 15,000 year old human remains. The finding leads to political discussion about replacing O...
- Added: Apr 01, 2009
- Length: 06:48
