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This time we profile Lightnin' Hopkins, who, in 1954, laid down some hard rocking sides for Herald Records.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Etta James, who landed at the top of the Billboard R&B charts this week in 1955, with "The Wallflower."
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Elmore James, who was in a recording studio in Chicago, this week in 1953.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
An interview with Venice Wiliams the executive director of Alice's Garden, an urban agriculture facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Added: Oct 23, 2017
- Length: 13:41
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
Many people have heard of the brutal dictatorships that ruled Soviet Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. RadioActive youth producer and high s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 04:55
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45
Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 04:22
A so-called spiritual medium, Clara Barton’s so-called spirit, and the man whose dedication swayed him to fall for an elaborate swindle.
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 07:20
Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
Many observers including his biographers would say he’s the most famous artist in the world. Master of sunflowers and starry skies, Vincent Van Gog...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
Taking place mostly in the Vatican and the tiny town that surrounds it, this fast moving, thoughtful novel features two brothers who are priests, t...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 2
Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
