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A cartoonist’s journey: an unlikely path to finding awe, family, and a place in the world.
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 52:49
Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts
Bought by WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 52:47
- Purchases: 4
Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts
- Added: Nov 17, 2021
- Length: 52:47
Beth Houlihan and her husband Chris own and operate Haunts of Richmond. And for a city this this size, Richmond has an abundance of ghoulies and gh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 26:58
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
After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...
Bought by KENW, WEZU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 3
Penny Lane talks conspiracies, manipulation, and the nature of reality.
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 21:43
Milt Lee speaks with Louie Fournier, logger and collector of chainsaws.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KKRN
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 2
On fifty-two square miles of rural land in Kankakee County Illinois there is a unique sand savannah sandwiched between corn and soybean fields wher...
- Added: Aug 09, 2015
- Length: 11:26
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
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 01:46
Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller talk revealing human nature, looking a Galapagos tortoise in the eye, and babysitting Cate Blanchett.
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 21:31
Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 23:26
- Purchases: 7
For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who conquered Nashville on her own terms.
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a keyboard player who was part of Texas music royalty
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of May (5/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texas singer who was as popular abroad as he is he...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
For the third week of May (5/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who managed to turn lemons into lemonade.
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of November (11/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented drummer whose career was almost dera...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of November (11/1): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who worked with comedians, snakes and ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
For the second week of October (10/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a black R&B singer who appeared on the grand ol...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of September (9/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a performer whose name you might find in your ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of September (9/21): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering songwriter who got an electrifyin...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of August (8/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a successful artist whose music career almost end...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:35
For the third week of August (8/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a duo whose first taste of success involved tequila
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of February (2/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a honkey tonk legend whose health problems almos...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
