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08: Goldmines & Gum Boots (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
'In Good Conscience': Shizue Seigel And An Exhibit At The National World War II Museum
From: WWNO
Caption: Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, Credit: Ansel Adams
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
Curtis and Kathy
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Curtis Billie from N'MPower
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:32
SITPE # 1415
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Branching out a bit (especially in the last half-hour).

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KKRN, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Winona and Bytów Poland Connection
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Bytow (Poland) Mayor Ryszard Sylka, at left, along with Father Paul Breza and Bytow City Council Chairman Leszek Waszkiewicz, at the Winona Polish Heritage Museum., Credit: Sarah Squires - Winona Post
Today on Culture Clique, we visit with city officials from Winona's sister city in Poland, and with Father Paul Breza. Fr. Paul Breza spearheaded t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 22:23
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of The Past - Part Seven
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you the Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk, which is presented every year by the Winona Country Historica...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 10:17
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of The Past - Woodlawn's History
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you the Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk, which is presented every year by the Winona Country Historica...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of The Past - Part Six
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you the Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk, which is presented every year by the Winona Country Historica...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of The Past - Part Five
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we feature Part 4 of The Winona County Historical Society's "Voices of the Past" Cemetery Walk" This years theme...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 11:38
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1405
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A hermit's eye view of classic rock and other things.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Dave Holland Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
43: The Legacy of Spence Broughton
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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How would the legacy of your great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather be passed on if he was a notorious criminal?

  • Added: Dec 05, 2013
  • Length: 20:54
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
Ojibwe Women; Gender and Socio-Economic Changes with the Fur Trade
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
Series: History of Leech Lake
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Elaine talks about Ojibwe Women and the socio-economic changes that came along with the Fur Trade.

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 13:04
  • Purchases: 2
You Are There
From: KSLU
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Based on the Walter Cronkite series of the same name, this week Rock School grabs excerpts of historic rock n roll events and discusses the impact ...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Radical Skeletons
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Anirvan & Barnali during a tour, Credit: Sandip Roy
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People - Hour Two
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People
This is the second installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 6
Charles McDew "We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For" - Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Previously on Culture Clique, we featured Charles McDew's talk "We Are the People We Have Been Waiting For" as presented at Winona State University...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 15:07
  • Purchases: 1
Charles McDew "We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For" - Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at Winona State University, Charles McDew, former chairman of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (from 19...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 1
Building a traditional Norwegian grindbygg timber frame
From: WTIP
Series: Moments In Time
Caption: Grindbygg style timber frame at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN., Credit: Carah Thomas
In this edition of WTIP's ongoing historical series, Moments in Time, producer Carah Thomas learns about an ancient style of timber framing from so...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Tackling the Market
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Kevin Plank
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Episode 17: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, Karikatura - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa
Bobby speaks with Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, founder and president of the Italian American Museum in New York City. Dr. Scelsa has a doctorate in sociol...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:08
Good Seed Bad Seed Quanah Parker
From: sarah parker
Series: Good Seed Bad Seed
Caption: Quanah Parker, Credit: Texas State University
Middle School Students at Roots and Wings Community School interviewed, Quanah Parker, a relative of the Legendary Comanche War Chief Quanah Parker.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
08: Gold Mines & Gum Boots
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" - Author Stewart Van Cleve talks with Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Heidi Holtan and Stewart Van Cleve have an in-depth conversation about the history of "queer" in Minnesota. Stewart Van Cleve's book "Land of 10,00...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 39:38
  • Purchases: 2