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HOUR ONE: "Building Twisted Worlds" - What’s scary today isn’t haunted mansions but haunted… tape decks? Cassette recorders? HR manuals? We'll intr...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

Bought by WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 52:47
  • Purchases: 4
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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
Caption: Winona Municipal Band
Welcome to our coverage of the 2017 season of the Winona Municipal Band, Directed by Levi Lundak. The band has been entertaining locals for 102 yea...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 55:22
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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. And: looking to the past by colle...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KKRN, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: A family listening to the radio in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1939. Photo by Arthur S. Siegel., Credit: Library of Congress.
Pledge drive hour for stations carrying BackStory with the American History Guys. Includes special content on the history of pledge drives and fund...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Tri States Public Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 38:20
  • Purchases: 11
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Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:33
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While waiting for the sunlight of a bright new, less-needful day to wake all of us from our collective buying frenzy, there are a few steps we can ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
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It’s generally agreed that the silent film era lasted from 1894 to 1929; however, the history of projected images is much longer. Beginning in the ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
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They came to Hollywood to escape the Nazi regime.

Bought by WCRI, KPVL, WCPN, WEKU, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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This week on The Score with Edmund Stone we are looking back at the amazing soundtracks from 1939.

Bought by WVTF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, and WEKU


  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4