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Voice of the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The storms continue, the wildflowers begin to appear, and Chantel (our mysterious PCT through-hiker) probably made it to the Canadian border withou...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith - The Hagia Sophia
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Steve explores the history and influence of the Hagia Sophia.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 53:02
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - The Next Everest
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Imagine being caught in an earthquake on Mount Everest!

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
The Nigiri Mountain Railway
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Nigiri Mountain train, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip takes a ride back in time on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, one of the oldest mountain railways in India and part of the UNESCO World Heritag...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "The Big Sugar" by Mary Logue
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Mary Logue talks about her new book "The Big Sugar"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
Thru-Hiking With Tahquitz
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that th...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who By Fire, Who By War
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It’s a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldi...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Nature of Vision and Color
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especia...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Persistence of Tulare Lake
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, bles...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wolf Woman, Wild Woman
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a st...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
God's Little Acre: Revealing underrepresented stories of America's African heritage, Part 2
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
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Join World Footprints as we uncover the hidden stories of this important piece of Newport's and America’s past from God's Little Acre.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 39:27
God’s Little Acre: America’s Colonial African Cemetery preserving history in stone – Part 1
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
Caption: Arthur Flagg and family markers, Credit: Photo: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tonya and Ian Fitzpatrick walk through the grounds of God's Little Acre--the oldest and largest colonial African burial ground, and they share unde...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:36
Encounters With Coyote-Man
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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For as long as people have lived in the desert southwest, they have told stories of Coyote, that peculiar personality that’s both a common wild can...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
763: How To Be An Ethical Traveler / 764: Searching For Order In The Universe, 1/28/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
In the Haunted Mountains (with Betty & Barney Hill)
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted W...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Grouse and the Goddess
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
31: Welcome, Tourists! Iowa and Indiana's Ag and Culinary Trails; 09/29/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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We head out to Iowa and Indiana to highlight two of the midwest's many agricultural and culinary tourism trails.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
17: A Smattering of European Influences on Midwestern Foodways; 09/22/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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This week's episode showcases the culinary traditions of Scandinavian, Germanic and Eastern European immigrants into the American Midwest. Capri's ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 2
Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here in the Mojave. Just a few days after massive flash floods washed out a number of roads within ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
11: Old World Influences of Southern Europe: Spotlight on Greek and Italian Immigrants in the Midwest, 07/21/2022
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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This episode of Eat Your Heartland Out is a special one for host Capri Cafaro. As an Italian-American from the Midwest, Capri shares her own person...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Chettiars
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A grand hall in Chettinad, Credit: Sandip Roy
The great mansions in the  villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Area 51's Mysterious Petroglyph: Pahranagat Man
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Now that it's good & hot outside, let's wander the high desert boulder-strewn hills of Nevada's Lincoln County. Home to Pahranagat Man, a very spec...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Winston Churchill's Connection to a Small Midwestern Town
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Timonthy Riley in the Churchill Museum., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Hear why a small Midwest American town pays tribute to Sir Winston Churchill and where you can walk in the footsteps of his life.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 31:43
Riding Jane Crow (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4