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When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...
- Added: Jul 02, 2016
- Length: 17:13
This show is a compilation of a wide variety of guests that have appeared on the Wall of Power Radio Hour since it's inception in April of 2014. Th...
- Added: Jun 30, 2016
- Length: 53:30
Today, the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota once again visits the world of local music in St. Cloud as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Ca...
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 30:21
Beltrami county celebrate its sesquicentennial this year, a fact not lost on the Beltrami County Historical Society. Dan Karalus, Executive Directo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 10:23
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
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
Kyle Meredith talks with David Lowery and Johnny Hickman of Cracker about their 25 year journey from the ashes of Camper Van Beethoven to writing m...
Bought by KPIP-LP, KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 4
A new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center creates a picture of Twin Cities suburban life from after World War II to the 1970s. Dan Spock, direc...
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 18:04
The St. Paul Winter Carnival has been a tradition in the Twin Cities for over 100 years! Today we learn from the carnivals cast of characters just ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 32:54
The Black Panthers weren’t the only ones arming themselves in the 60s and 70s. And as Making Contact producer George Lavender found, not everyone h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 06:26
- Purchases: 1
Everything you didn't want to know about mountain lions!
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: 03:00:01
"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 03:21:46
Retired Marine Corps Major Donnie Dunagan, who was the voice of Bambi in the 1942 Disney film, tells his wife, Dana, about hiding his acting credit...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVBI-LP, Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU and more
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 6
Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich about the race to...
Bought by WQCS, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 6
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
The first of the post-college series, this episode brings you Max's roots reggae picks along with exclusive, unreleased material from Stick Figure ...
- Added: May 28, 2015
- Length: 58:53
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 10:21
- Purchases: 1
In 2014 the United States had 650 reported cases of measles, a disease made preventable by a vaccine introduced 30 years ago. The majority of these...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 01:27:06
Rebecca McInroy welcomes guest host Jody Denberg to talk with Michael Priest, Eddie Wilson, Jim Franklin, Joe Nick Patoski, Danny Garret, and Guy J...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:25:18
Author/music journalist Allan Kozinn discusses The Beatles' remastered mono LPs, the "Paul is Dead" rumor/phenomenon, and other things Beatle-related.
- Added: Nov 29, 2014
- Length: 01:39:42
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in ...
Bought by KZYX, KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and WABE
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 4
Using creative adaptation to overcome the bugs in our systems
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 24:35
Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 5
We mark the centennial of the start of World War I with the acclaimed author of 29 books, including the well-known SCHINDLER'S LIST (originally SCH...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
