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Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 4
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
Joaquin Miller and other writers have a camp on the slopes of Mt. Shasta. To that camp comes a tenderfoot newspaper editor. He catches some trout f...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 08:08
The Supreme Court case that helped put a ‘for sale’ sign on our genes.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WRPI, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 4
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
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. A...
- Added: Sep 15, 2012
- Length: 27:16
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
Art Fenstad is a descendant of a North Shore fishing family. A lot has changed since Art's ancestors immigrated here in the late 1800s. One thing t...
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 2
Nickson Parmisa tells of hairy, smelly, human-like beasts, which used to roam the Savannah, eating people but not their cattle. Is this just a fabl...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 02:57
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis about his documentary entitled Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison.
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 19:30
- Purchases: 1
Just off the North Shore of Lake Superior, sits an island. Isle Royale. It's 45 miles long and 9 miles wide. It's remote. It's quiet. It has abunda...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:11
- Purchases: 1
Life By the Drop is a close look at the state of water and drought in Texas, looking both to the past and the future for answers on how the state c...
Bought by WZEN.org, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KUHF
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Rolf came to Kenya in 1973 in search of "Real Africa" and he found it. Few people know that Rolf is now a proud Kenyan citizen. I interviewed him a...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 13:28
The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 16:26
Fish, Aquaculture, and the Industrial Revolution
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 20:20
John Mickiewicz maintains and operates the iconic WPA built Railroad Bridge that connects Cape Cod to the mainland over the Cape Cod Canal. He love...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 2
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheese-maker throughout world history and by und...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 17:10
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious Assistant Producer, Christina Aanestad speaks with Darryl Cherney, the Earth First! activist who along with Judi Bari, was car bombed...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the era of sailing vessels, Hog Island became well known to mariners because of the infamous Hog Island Shoals which ran parallel to the island.
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 01:32
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:38
Asbestos, once a miracle product, is now a plague on the aging infrastructure to which it's bound. In this episode we explore a Pennsylvania town w...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 14:03
Some people believe that Coldwater Spring has been flowing for more than 10,000 years. Located south of Minnehaha Park on the former Bureau of Mine...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 29:07
Kenneth Honeycutt tells his wife Gaye about witnessing the New London School Explosion of 1937.
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 3
