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The final piece in a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Have a listen to our first episode of Tabled Fables where we discuss Little Red Riding Hood with analysis by author and fairy tale scholar Jack Zip...
- Added: Nov 03, 2012
- Length: 17:55
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 07:46
- Purchases: 1
Martin Blackwell reads Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:36
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
A program containing 3 short stories of the old west by Frank Bird Linderman in which the rough dry humor of the cowpuncher is evident.
- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 28:11
The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 20:25
- Purchases: 3
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
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 1
The segment goes into detail about the departure of General Douglas MacArthur to Australia. The American-Filipino troops had to start a retreating ...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 06:54
- Purchases: 1
This segment is about the Naval Ground Battalion that was created using sailors from the U.S.S. Canopus. The Imperial Japanese had started to land ...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 1
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This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
War brings on tales of predictive dreams and wondrous signs.
- Added: Aug 25, 2011
- Length: 04:22
A New Amsterdam doctor has bought some property way out of town (roughly 23rd St.) and the locals claim it's haunted. Dolph, an adventurous young m...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:58
Before it was Ellis Island it was Gibbet Island as that was the location of the gallows used for pirates and mutineers. This is a tale of the dead ...
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 05:05
Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 52:09
Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 17:01
Revised edition. A report shows that the last 50 years of tax cuts benefited the very rich but left the middle class without improvement.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
What if Apollo 11 had crashed?
Bought by KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2010
- Length: 15:21
- Purchases: 7
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 07:34
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.
Bought by KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Marfa Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2009
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 10
