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A public domain reading of Sappho's "Epigrams" set to public domain jazz from Pixabay.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 03:45
Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 10:00
Songs about saying goodbye performed by a variety of artists recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Mark Jones ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 58:59
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack speaks with Anna Marie’s Alliance Executive Director C...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 30:00
The metro area hosts a variety of cemeteries and mausoleums. You may have a favorite – Uptown’s Lakewood perhaps? Or maybe a smaller, more secluded...
- Added: Apr 13, 2022
- Length: 06:34
HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...
- Added: Apr 09, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Richard reflects on the connection between his life’s work and that of his daughter Erika, who is leading the Biden/Harris transition team for the ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 10:30
Happiness - Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice is an Italian television personality, a member of the House of Savoy and the son and heir...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 03:32
"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Shig Yabu tells his grandson Evan about an unlikely friend he made as a Japanese American internee during World War II.
- Added: Feb 25, 2020
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 2
In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 41:32
- Purchases: 1
Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:01
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: journeys to freedom, on two legs…and four. Ten years ago, more than 50 pit bulls were discovered...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 58:28
- Purchases: 4
Barbed Wire and Flowers: A daughter’s story of her perception and relationship with her father. He, a survivor of the holocaust, and she, his adul...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 1
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 18:40
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 09:40
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller, writer, and poet. Following Paul Wellstone's death she wrote this poem to honor his legacy.
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 02:03
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world! That voice! That smile! That golden trumpet! Jazz writer Gary Giddins on the incomparable Louis Arms...
Bought by Prairie Public and KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 32:17
- Purchases: 2
Edward R. Murrow called them “ The Lost Class of 1959”. The kids who had nowhere to go when some Virginia public schools closed their doors rather...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
