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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: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 1
We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 59:36
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
165 Halloweens on, we still call on Edgar Allan Poe when we want a disturbing kind of classic — all of the horror with none of the guilt. His most ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 58:35
- Purchases: 6
Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 21:16
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 11:09
Author Antonia Hodgson reads from her historical novel, The Devil In The Marshalsea." Just one of our daily readings for July. The Author's Corner ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 56:03
- Purchases: 5
IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:56
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
This show features music related to the Charles Manson murders. Manson was convinced that The Beatles were speaking to him through their music, ur...
- Added: Oct 16, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 04, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
What if you knew your teacher was lying to you? In 1956, ten year old Carolyn Himmer watched the classic "Duck and Cover" film in school, knowing i...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 06:34
Why are they here?. Many Latin Americans came to the US because dangerous or deadly conditions-which the American government helped create. In pa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 07:03
April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 59:47
Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 3
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
In this installment, the topic is the notorious Wannsee Conference.
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 05:53
The second of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:05
