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Going heavy on the AK music this week and chatting with an AK Music legend, Kurt Reimann! He runs Surreal Studios in Anchorage, has produced countl...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
On the menu this week:
A new cover from Dolly Parton
A new version of Money from Roger Waters himself
plus, new music from The Mountain Goats, Ple...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 6
On this week's episode, new tunes courtesy of M. Ward, Blonde Redhead, and Hiss Golden Messenger. Plus sampling some tracks out of Juneau & talking...
Bought by KHNS, KNBA, KSTK, Raven Radio, KTNA and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Guitar genius and NEA Jazz Master Pat Metheny talks about Song X with Ornette Coleman, his first album, Bright Size Life, and guitar improvisation.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 9
Physical record stores have made a comeback in recent years, but there's one in Boston that never went away. At Skippy White's CDs & Records, owner...
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 21:17
Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Kathryn Chesney
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 07:04
The Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel holds renown for being the only outdoor bonspiel in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The ice is bad, the c...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 05:06
You're looking for your perfect partner, but dating sites keep matching you with duds. So what do you do? Conduct an elaborate linguistic experimen...
- Added: Feb 06, 2016
- Length: 41:57
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s u...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:35
CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
Naming something after yourself: a grand display of egomania, or the humble willingness to be overshadowed by your own product? Stationery expert J...
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 17:56
A want-to-be ghost hunting narrator thinks she finds Electronic Voice Phenomenon when she playfully searches hard enough for it.
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 12:53
A business designed to exploit amateur songwriters winds up making lots of them really happy.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 08:48
- Purchases: 1
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
Every day the Hiawatha Blue Line light rail trains transport Minnesotans from Minneapolis to Bloomington for work, shopping, travel, and home again...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
The Falmouth, Massachusetts, Senior Center poetry group hosted a public event to read their work. But it turned out to be less about sharing their ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 2
This story is about Paul Marcus Earle, who for many years had a day job in Pathology, but on nights and weekends became Marcus the Magician.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 28:10
Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 10:04
In 2007 the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
researched why people in Minnesota were spending less time outdoors.
They found three problem...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 55:45
A true love story for those who have loved, lost and then gone on a cruise to forget... if only she hadn't picked the same cruise as her ex.
- Added: Jul 26, 2010
- Length: 11:15
- Purchases: 2
You might say that Malort is Chicago's signature drink. Which would be fine, if it weren't so disgusting. For the uninitiated, here is the story of...
- Added: Jun 15, 2010
- Length: 10:05
- Purchases: 2
Confederate Civil War reenactors in Maine?
The 15th Alabama is the largest Confederate Civil War reenacting group in the state.
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 1
Life on the Duwamish, Segment 3
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 08:28
