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Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 4
Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:56
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 46:15
- Purchases: 2
Karol Wojtyla's path to papacy is laid out in this episode of Kaleidoscope.
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 46:52
“Whoever would understand the heart and mind of America had better learn the game of baseball...” As this quotation sums up our attitude toward the...
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 58:48
- Purchases: 2
Jesus, in this narrative, emerges from the shadows to walk in a world peopled by simple hard-working men in a town called Nazareth. A town where a ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 48:58
Nobleman, soldier, gambler, womanizer, priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus—and all this of just one man!
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 46:50
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with this edition of Kaleidoscope. From Mose the Firefighter to terminology and Irish practices, here is a look at th...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 47:56
- Purchases: 1
Dedicated to the late broadcaster, J.P. McCarthy—Detroit's #1 Irishman—here is a two-hour celebration for St. Patrick's Day. In song, poetry, and p...
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 01:33:41
- Purchases: 2
Much has been written about the life, times and experiences of Abraham Lincoln, but perhaps the nicest part of the truth is the story of Lincoln an...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2011
- Length: 50:47
- Purchases: 1
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Here presented is the life and times of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave wh...
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: 49:49
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. In this program, we hear the history of the first North African to set foot in ...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: 47:27
- Purchases: 1
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month.
Remembering: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Estaban, Phillis Wheatley, Bill Pic...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 37:38
On the anniversary of his birth, the life and work of the civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His own voice and words make this a mean...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, KCNP, KCNP and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 44:36
- Purchases: 6
An account of the life and works of George Frederick Handel, most notably the writing of "Messiah."
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Nov 19, 2010
- Length: 45:47
- Purchases: 1
Our Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers—Mike Whorf details the first few years of the Plymouth colony and the natives they befriended.
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 44:09
Host Sara Fishko considers composers who perform their own work.
- Added: Jan 29, 2008
- Length: 06:53
5 generational essays on Community from This I Believe archive
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 29:00