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Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:25:52
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The star... the origin and history of the Christmas tree... and oh, it's a wonderful life!

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:27:46
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For the first time in history, the Roman Senate elects an emperor... sonic weapons attack an American embassy and doom's day is this Saturday!

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:28:52
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Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:20:37
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Lizzy Borden had an axe...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:42:35
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Trump defended it... Obama derided it and the Pope wants to dictate it...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:23:52
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Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:09
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A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:22:46
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
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Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:17:14
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Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
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How to Fix U.S. explores the two-party system and a simple change that's gaining traction to end Republican and Democratic dominance.

  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:29
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He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Time travel is really possible, in theory...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:33
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The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of one Rob Roy MacGregor...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:29:26
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05
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The first two-party debate of the 2016 presidential election; wreaking havoc in Africa and the Spanish Main, Sir Francis Drake disembarks at Plymou...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:22:44
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Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 11:51
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Everything you wanted to know about earth's companion. And the catastrophic fire that burned much of Rome in 64 AD...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:30:58
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Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:20:46
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Joaquin Murrieta became notorious during the California gold rush, and even inspired an author to write a famous swashbuckler. And an ancient city...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:25:39
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How did the sixth James get first in line? It happened when his job description changed from Scottish king to monarch of all Britain...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:25:25
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Georgetown Preservation Society's attorney talks about their case against El Dorado County

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 15:58
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The spirit of Judith cries out to us even if the names of her enemies are masked, even if exiled to the Apocrypha, even though she was -- but a wom...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:31:22
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:41