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In October of 2015 Peter Neill, Director of World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, attended the bi-annual conference of the Interna...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 05:32
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Bradley Boyd and reporter Ashley Creek head to the top of an old hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, which made provisions for a future that never came. ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 2
Which is the better way to “feed the world” – with organic or “conventional” agriculture? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Mel...
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Marjane Ambler talks about and reads from 'Yellowstone Has Teeth: A memoir of living year-round in the world's first national park.'
Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The ocean has served as a means of exchange for all manner of cargo: oil, chemicals, waste, arms, manufactured goods, raw materials, and human bein...
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 05:06
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 05:23
A topic that we covered more than a year ago, but was just as relevant in 2013 is fire, more specifically wildfires. When we aired our show, The Bu...
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
When Chicago was up the proverbial creek.
Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 19:14
- Purchases: 3
Maritime Museums are one of the key conduits for modern day understanding of maritime history, yet many are struggling. In this episode of World Oc...
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 05:19
Atlantic Memory is a concept which includes every aspect of maritime culture in order to inspire greater public understanding of maritime endeavors...
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 05:10
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 4
In this episode we investigate the science beneath our streets. First how a team of amateur speleologists are keeping Howe Caverns safe. Then a loo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 16:35
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Chautauqua scholar Lee Stetson, who portrays environmental conservationist John Muir. Muir founded the ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 29:01
In this episode we see old bones made new again. First the ongoing restoration of Philadelphia's 19th Street Baptist Church. Then a discussion abou...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 17:11
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 06:11
Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 29:01
On today's show we track the evolution of smog from symbol of industrial progress to public-health catastrophe.
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 14:19
We bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: animal communication in the Sonoran Desert and the toll of a...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 13:33
Today on Don't Cha know we continue our coverage of The Big Muddy River Rendezvous that took place in Winona at Prairie Island campground in the mi...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 15:23
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of "Don't Cha Know" we venture back to Prairie Island Campground in Winona, Minnesota, and partake in a lesson on fur trading. The ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 18:01
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses two such recent presentations of Red Sea and Arabian-Persian Gulf history.
- Added: Oct 05, 2011
- Length: 05:12
Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Klamath River and it tributaries in the northwest corner ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
