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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with members of the Civil War Roundtable group t...
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 29:55
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Patti McCracken is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and many oth...
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 24:20
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke records in three different sports. Today his...
Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WILL, KOSU, KAAD-LP, KUT and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...
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- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Whose Land Is It?" -...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. How can we travel more e...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 01:59:02
What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 54:01
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - They’ve been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake, but witches are still practicing the craft. We take you fr...
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? The pandemic has brought us a period of global mournin...
- Added: Oct 21, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...
- Added: Oct 14, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...
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- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'The Secret Language of Trees' - Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 36:31
- Purchases: 1
