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The Charles Manson Family Hours
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Professional criminal...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:25:04
191: In the Company of Wolves / 192: Making a Home, 8/5/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Mommy Dearest: A History of American Motherhood [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Special Programming
Caption: Twin mothers with their newborn babies at Columbia Maternity Hospital, Washington, D.C., April 7th, 1939 , Credit: Library of Congress
Some say motherhood is the hardest job in the world; turns out, there's a lot of history to back that up. In this special Mother's Day episode, the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WUFT, KISU, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 24
Sometimes It's The Simple Things
From: WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
Series: Versify (shorts)
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In many families, there’s that one person who plays family historian.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 3
Moonshine and Prohibition
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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South Carolina saw the statewide prohibition of alcohol in 1915. But not before the state established its own dispensary system more than a decade ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WYAP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
December 31, 2017, Episode #1
From: Colloquial Podcast
Series: Colloquial
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This week's broadcast includes New Years folklore, this week's history lesson, celestial viewing, and a short story titled "Winter's Dreary Fog." ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 09:13
The History of Pumpkin Carving and jack-o-lanterns
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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This episode of Culture Clique we go the Minnesota Marine Art Museum where we will explore the history of jack-o-lanterns at their event The Great ...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 14:59
TriPod Xtras: Broadmoor Neighborhood History Dialogue
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Bohn Motor Company Building , Broad Avenue, Broadmoor, New Orleans, Louisiana. On the National Register of Historic Places., Credit: Infrogmation / Wikimedia Commons
This is another edition of TriPod Xtras. We’ve cut together some highlights from a really interesting panel we went to a little while back, put on ...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 11:31
I'm alive because of a dictator's ego and my family's clever thinking
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: RadioActive producer Jad Vianu with his father Alec Vianu., Credit: Courtesy of Jad Vianu
Many people have heard of the brutal dictatorships that ruled Soviet Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. RadioActive youth producer and high s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Trial of Liz Borden
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Lizzy Borden had an axe...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:42:35
Life in the 70's with Richard Nixon
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Life in the 1970's with Tricky Dick...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:37:32
The Petersons
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Music Notes
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In the 1930s, Jeanie Arland met her future husband and fellow musician Willie Peterson at WCCO. Producer Daniel Zamzow describes how, over time, th...

Bought by WTIP, KQAL, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Steele Singers
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Music Notes
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The Steele Singers have been a powerful musical force since they moved to Minnesota in the early 1980s. Producer Daniel Zamzow points us to some of...

Bought by WTIP, KQAL, KFAI Minneapolis, and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
Weekly Arts Calendar – NW Minnesota and Beyond!
From: KSRQ
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The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:35
Dog Stories
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
Caption: Elaine Fleming
Along time ago, the dogs would meet in the lodge.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:30
Shaynowishkung II
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
Caption: Elaine Fleming
1825 Treaty of....

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 10:21
First Immigrant Historic Marker in Virginia
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Virginia's first historic marker to recognize immigrants.
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 08:45
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 66: Bully
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:10
Kitty Keeps On Singing
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Kitty Flanagan Barrett Curran
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.

Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 2
Weekly Arts Calendar – NW Minnesota and Beyond!
From: Rom Ogaard
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The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:01
Behind the Scenes at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Samuri Armor, Credit: Renee Wilde
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is nestled in a beautiful stretch of public parks that mark the confluence of the Stillwater and Great Miami Rive...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:02
Episode 65: The Kingfish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Drift
From: Courtney Naliboff
Series: 12 Knots
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Stories change. People change. Communities change. The first episode of 12 Knots, The Drift, features three stories from the small island communit...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 43:06
Cherokee Country (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Cherokee Nation was one of the most powerful tribes living in Virginia, five hundred years ago. Today, the Cherokee are one of the largest Nati...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3

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