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Kooky characters have lessened in number, so has our opportunity to pitch in and help them or to put up with a little misery or embarrassment from ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:20
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Permanence—the state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely—might appear to be an outmoded, unrealistic concept.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:16
Caption: Tom Ireland House, Webberville, Travis County, TX 1937 , Credit:  (via Library of Congress)
30-second promo for "Home, Bittersweet Home: A History of Homeownership" 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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A comparative generational discussion about hippies

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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The Saturday Night Widows are a group of six friends that decided to remake their lives after suffering the loss of their husbands. Aikmans memoir ...

Bought by WCNY and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Catherine King reads at Tales from the South
We go way back in time for this very special show, featuring true stories from the 1930's and 40's, told by the Southerners who lived them. Stories...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 34:00
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Long-Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Oscar Forsman is a elementary school music teacher from DeKalb, Illinois. Oscar has strong ties to his Finnish American roots on Minnesota's Iron ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 17:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Mary Hynes leads listeners on a search for the definition of Sacred Ground.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:47:08
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Realgoodwords is our weekly book program; a place for those who read, write and appreciate the written word.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 18:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Barbara Okun, Joseph Nowinski, and Nancy Rappaport, this week on Prime Time Radio

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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To save his family and other Christian missionaries, Frans Larson led a caravan through the Gobi Desert and into Siberia. That explorer’s great-gra...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
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Older, middle and younger generations discuss loyalty

  • Added: Jan 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Fifty years ago this month, President Dwight Eisenhower gave his farewell speech to the American people. Eisenhower's farewell address is considere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 14:40
  • Purchases: 1
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"The Last Hunter - An American Family Album" by MN Author Will Weaver.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani is back on Realgoodwords this week talking about her grandmothers, including Lucy from Chisholm.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 30:14
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As a kid, Guido envied his friends who had two, hands-on Grandmothers.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
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In Judeo-Christian tradition we track families through the fathers side. Unless of course you are not a landed male heir. It's not that you don't m...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:23
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"...These Grandmothers, man, they don't play by anyone's rule book. Truly, they never have... They weren't always Grandmothers, that's something it...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
Charles Lindbergh made history flying his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927. The trip took over 33 hours! Lis...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
The Liberty Bell is a symbol of freedom for the United States, but did you know it started life as a simple Statehouse Bell for Pennsylvania? Liste...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
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Michael is having a hard time getting into the spirit of it this year...this holiday exists by decree.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 2