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Think of your favorite Motown song. If there is a flute or piccolo on that song, it was played by Dayna Hartwick. For close to a decade, she was ...
Bought by KTRL, KSRQ, WYAP, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 34:07
In part two of this interview with husband and wife writers, poet Geoffrey Brock and novelist Padma Viswanathan, the couple discusses their shared ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
Penny Rosenwasser is an activist and author of “Hope Into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite our Fears.” On this edition of Making Co...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Award-winning author James Lee Burke talks about and reads from 'House of the Rising Sun,' the latest novel in his Hackberry Holland Series.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
A teenage misfit tries to empower himself by taking on the persona of a medieval Scottish King.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 21:44
- Purchases: 1
At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.
- Added: Aug 30, 2015
- Length: 03:54
Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota goes downtown. In the 1850’s, three small villages of Southerners, Yankees, Protestants and German Cat...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 31:24
- Purchases: 1
A sheltered American teen is quickly in over her head as a foreign exchange student in post-apartheid Johannesburg.
- Added: Jun 22, 2015
- Length: 24:06
The Guardians of History features seven archivists working at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library. It explores why we archivists do what we do. It...
Bought by KLCC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 08:55
- Purchases: 3
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Erik Floan, Director of Worship Music & Arts at Central Lutheran in Winona stops by to talk about the "World Organ Day Concert" taking place May 5t...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 28:19
- Purchases: 1
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
The life and ideas of media theorist Marshall McLuhan and the effect of those ideas on 1960s Canada. Meet his son, Eric, his biographer, Terrence G...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 51:48
Tom Keith, long time sound effects man for A Prairie Home Companion, could have worked during the Golden Age of Radio. He preferred to create sound...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Nov 01, 2011
- Length: 06:39
- Purchases: 1
In this feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack takes us on the historic home tour which recently wound its way through the SCSU ne...
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 31:11
Pianist Earl Wild performed before an enthusiastic audience at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to celebrate his 90th birthday.
Bought by WFIU and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 50:58
- Purchases: 4
