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This I Believe - Warren Christopher
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Public service and private life shaped former Secretary of State Warren Christopher's belief in trust.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 4 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 4 features Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins and William Stafford. Optional 5-minute drop-in also available.

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, KWIT, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
  • Purchases: 12
Holiday Series: Memorial Day
From: Talking History
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Guest Matthew Dennis and Talking History's host Bryan Le Beau delve into the history and meaning of Memorial Day.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2006
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
Private Thompson
From: Talking History
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Laura Leedy Gansler joins Talking History's Linna Place in conversation about Sara Emma Edmundson, who disguised herself as a man, and joined the U...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:02
Spring Forward: Daylight Savings
From: Talking History
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Have you ever wondered why we have Daylight Savings? Michael Downing joins Bryan Le Beau to answer this and other questions.

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 11
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10
First Tuesday in March
From: Vermont Public
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Every year, Vermont citizens gather at their annual town meetings in a remarkable showing of democracy. Experience this moving example of grassroot...

Bought by KQED, KTNA, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Mar 02, 2006
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Children's Blizzard
From: Talking History
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Guest, David Laskin discusses the surprise blizzard of 1888, that claimed lives of Midwesterners- many of them children. The program includes comme...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:02
Sundown Towns
From: Talking History
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Our interview features James Loewen who discusses the historical practice of banning minorities after sundown in American communities, plus our reg...

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Public Enemies
From: Talking History
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Interview features Bryan Burrough, discussing the gangster era of the 1930s, along with our regular features, History in the News and Site of the W...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
Influenza
From: Talking History
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Author John Barry discusses the influenza pandemic of 1918, Chris Crenner comments on the forerunner of today's medical advice columnist- Dr. Logan...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
From: Talking History
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Main feature is an interview with Jared Diamond, along with our regular segments on History in the News, and a reading from recollections from the ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
Tribal Canoe Journey 2005 Aluets Join Family Canoes
From: Robin Carneen
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Mark Daniels a non Native becomes skipper and boat bulider for Aleuts

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Sólheimar, a place in the sun
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story of Sólheimar,a village in Iceland where mentally disabled persons live together with people without a handicap.

Bought by WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Alexander Hamilton
From: Talking History
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Interview with Ron Chernow author of "Alexander Hamilton," and we continue our series of special readings from the unpublished recollections of the...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
American Secularism
From: Talking History
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Interview features a discussion on the history of freethinking in America; program includes our regular segment History in the News and a reading f...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
United Nations
From: Talking History
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Interview features Stephen Schlesinger Director of the World Policy Institute, regular segments History in the News and series of special readings ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Teaching History
From: Talking History
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Interview focuses on the teaching of history in today's classrooms, commentary examines what we learn from history,

  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Teaching History
From: Talking History
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Jacquelyn Hall, Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill discusses teaching history in schools with host Bryan Le Beau and...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Redeveloping Oakland
From: Nathanael Johnson
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A history of redevelopment in Oakland, California.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Jul 26, 2005
  • Length: 16:06
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with James Morone: Hellfire Nation
From: Talking History
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Interview with James Morone: how “America became a nation with the soul of a church.” Anna Rubin comments on the new exhibit at The Smithsonian "W...

  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
The Death Penalty interview with Stuart Banner
From: Talking History
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Interview on the death penalty, regular features on history in the news and site of the week along with commentary on the centennial celebrations i...

  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
Einstein
From: Talking History
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Elizabeth Stoddard explains Einstein's theories and historian William Ashworth comments on Einstein's personality.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paternalism
From: Talking History
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Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00

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