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The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bob...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 42:01
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
Hour 1 of a 2 hour radio program produced by top public radio music documentary producer Paul Ingles that offers a deep dive celebration of the 197...
Bought by North State Public Radio, KFSK, WRVO Public Media, and KUHF
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Single hour version of a program spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks abo...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...
Bought by WHRV and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:52
- 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
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 29:23
There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Bu...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barrier...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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 one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 36:45
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
In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:05
1894 Cazadero train wreck, Gaye Lebaron on Black Bart, the restoration of Duncans Mills, the History of Pole Mountain Lookout, and more!
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 57:30
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 59:01
We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...
Bought by WNCW, WHRV, WKMS, North State Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 7
