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In 1927, balloons of cartoon characters were introduced to the Macy’s Thanksgving Day Parade! Find out what happened to those balloons when they we...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1939, President Franklin Delano actually moved Thanksgiving up a week! Find out the reasons why in this episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 01:00
For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the very first Czech musicians to perform i...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 3
The origin of his nickname is disputed. Regardless of the reasons, Francis Joseph Julian Spanier was simply known as Muggsy. Before Bix Beiderbeck...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 19:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 09:59
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 01:52:09
Steampunk among the steam trains: lifestyle/fashion event celebrates a past vision of the future. Amy Clark brings us a conversation with Richard R...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 05:39
- Purchases: 2
In this special 2-part Tin Roof Project, White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier tells stories of his White House years.
- Added: May 05, 2012
- Length: 57:59
Benny Golson's life is a who's who in jazz! [40:38]
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 40:39
- Purchases: 2
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
The story of the great horn band THE TOWER OF POWER. A special interview with founder Emilio Castillo about the history of this legendary band.
Bought by WUFT
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 01:00:23
- Purchases: 1
“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 12:33
- Purchases: 3
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
In 1921, the Coconut Grove nightclub was the place to see and be seen. Hollywood stars frequently the club located in a peaceful rural setting sur...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
The pirate, Captain Kidd, was reputed to have buried treasure all up and down the Atlantic Coast and in the Bahamas. Much more gold has been spent ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 15:23
On today's show we look at the real and imagined implications of genetic modification in the middle of the 20th century.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 14:40
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with retired SCSU Arts Professor Ted Sherarts about the Collective Memor...
- Added: Mar 01, 2012
- Length: 28:39
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with award winning filmmaker Billy Luther.
- Added: Feb 20, 2012
- Length: 21:06
In this interview author Angie Abdou brings to her latest book themes from an ancient English text first made popular in the middle ages to put a m...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 12:29
- Purchases: 1
Three well-known Southern writers tell stories of tragedy and comedy in their own personal lives, and see Shakespeare in themselves, others, and ev...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 58:59
