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A well-meaning illustration in a children's book sparks controversy over segregation in the nation's capital in the 1930s.
Bought by Listenwise, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 07:41
- Purchases: 3
Off the Beat explores secret spaces around Providence, including the abandoned underground railroad tunnel, Keeney tunnels, and some less literal p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:47
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting December 31st, 2011. Benjamin starts the show with a variety of computer and technology...
- Added: Dec 30, 2011
- Length: 54:00
A 20-something pianist is making old-time piano new again... with a little help from Darth Vader and Super Mario Bros.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2011
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
When the tiny African American community on Georgia's St Simon's Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize that the buildi...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Oct 09, 2011
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 1
Only 120 copies of John Audubon’s Birds of America are known to exist and one complete set is stored in a climate controlled vault at the Minneapol...
- Added: Oct 03, 2011
- Length: 05:30
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, more than 50,000 rescue and recovery workers converged at the World Trade Center. Among them were the 62 members o...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:55
What happens when Africa and the Caribbean culinarily collide in the U.S. capital? Dig in and find out!
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 04:46
After losing a home and two breweries to fire, one German beermaker vowed not to let history repeat itself... and built an extraordinary house that...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 09, 2011
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
Many refugees in the United States have complicated stories to tell. The plight of the Meskhetian Turks spans six decades and four countries. Now s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 1
“Grounded: The End of the Shuttle Era and the Future of Manned Space Flight,” is a special report from KUT News exploring mission, place and what i...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 52:25
- Purchases: 1
Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 04:48
- Added: Feb 23, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
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It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 07, 2011
- Length: 34:10
- Purchases: 1
Theories and advances in Miami University's missing student from 1953.
- Added: Dec 15, 2010
- Length: 03:36
Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 17:01
West Side Story, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Amadeus, Wicked-- You may not know Chic Silber, but you probably know at least some of the spectacles ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 08:09
Although the World Bank wants to be thought of as green, figures reveal that the Bank is flooding the third world with fossil fuel energy projects.
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 02:00
A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.
- Added: Oct 13, 2010
- Length: 02:00
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
The Herndon Home is facing financial uncertainty just as it's celebrating its centennial year. The imposing two-story brick mansion sits largely un...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2010
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:38
Dick Armey, the former House Majority Leader, speaks about conservatism at the National Press Club.
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 54:01
