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Imagine leaving home and traveling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to co...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 32:22
Radio Curious is a program of interviews with those we wonder about. I’ve often wondered about Woodstock of 1969. I’ve often wondered how it got go...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 30, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in Florida. When he told an insurance investigator he wa...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 41:57
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Bio-Hazard: The Chilling Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World — Told From Inside by the Man Who Ran it
Biological w...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: :00
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Topic 1: What We Learned From the Crack Crisis in America. Topic 2: The Future is Peat
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KQRU FM LP, KOWS, and WYAP
- Added: Aug 17, 2020
- Length: 51:38
- Purchases: 4
This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...
- Added: Aug 13, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Radio newsman Art Schreiber was one of only 2 American reporters allowed on The Beatles historic 1964 first tour of the United States. Schreiber t...
Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
Host Paul Ingles talks with drummer Doug Clifford of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Creedence Clearwater Revival about the early days of the ...
Bought by KUHF, KUPR low power FM, and KSJE
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Cultures that have no written language pass on their histories through oral traditions. The stories are the way that social values and traditions a...
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Cultures that have no written language pass on their histories through oral traditions. The stories are the way that social values and traditions a...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The Virtues of Aging
Considering the alternatives, growing older is really not all that bad. The frame of mind that we develop and carry with us a...
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We all know that people listen to radio and watch television. The difference between radio and television is in the image. When you listen to radio...
- Added: Jun 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Vladivostok, Russia, at the very eastern end of Siberia, is a city of about 800,000 people. It is the same distance north of the equator as is cent...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit Dennis del Castillo and Mercedes Lu, two environmental activists from Peru. I met with them in Lima, Per...
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Country music historian Bill Malone writes about Southern life with the immediacy of someone who’s lived it. The authoritative voice in Ken Burns’...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 51:59
Bill Zacha, the leading force behind the creation of the Mendocino Art justify was a person with vision and moxie and one who made a dream come tru...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 29:00
John Sutter was an migr from Switzerland who came to California to establish his New Helvicia in the land of opportunity, located in what is now cl...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In this program, we are going to go back into California history about 150 years, and visit with the last Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico....
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Emily Dickinson, better known now than she was then, was known well for her phrases which sang out in a multitude of forms, meters and styles. Her ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00