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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
In this Valentine's Days Special, we'll meet Jo and Harvey. Tune in and hear how they met and married 58 years ago in California.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 06:11
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 39:29
The Rough Draft Diaries visits the Historic Vistula district of Toledo to check out The Casey-Pomeroy House.
Sue had two connections for our next...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 06:10
A teenage misfit tries to empower himself by taking on the persona of a medieval Scottish King.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 21:44
- Purchases: 1
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 10:26
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 1
On top of the highest hill in San Francisco is the Mount Davidson Cross -- a monument to the Armenian Genocide. Friday, April 24th marks 100 years ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
As part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, Maija (May-jah) Rhee (ree) Devine recounts how her extr...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A small unknown town in India has a history that makes it worth stopping in to have a look.
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 04:30
On this episode of Culture Clique, we meet Charley Goddard. He is the newest character brought to life by the Minnesota Historical Society's Histor...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:00:40
- Purchases: 1
This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 26:31
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
Michael shares the empowering journey of claiming his own gender.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 08:17
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
We time travel backwards to talk vinyl, old sounds and collecting records
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Following the ancient path of Ulysses, Soundwalk Collective continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 58:00
While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 12:11
- Purchases: 4
A Generation Putin *extra*: Audio postcard from a military jeep ride in the former Soviet stronghold of Balaklava, Ukraine.
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 3
A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 07:35
Boston Irish mob boss "Whitey" Bulger and his girlfriend spent 15 years hiding out in Santa Monica. Residents say the most wanted man in America wa...
Bought by KMUZ, WFMU, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 5
