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Host Bob Kustra and Hampton Sides discuss the riveting true story of a "grand and terrible" polar voyage.
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: :30
The St. Paul Winter Carnival has been a tradition in the Twin Cities for over 100 years! Today we learn from the carnivals cast of characters just ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 32:54
Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with Lawrence Goldstone, author of "Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, And The Battle To Control Th...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 30:16
- Purchases: 1
Sides tells the the thrilling and harrowing story of an early attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole in his book, "In the Kingdom of Ice: ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 30:31
Imagine being packed off to an exotic foreign land to be immersed into a wholly different culture -- back in the 1870's! (Sorry, no Skype here.) Au...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
In 1987, russians and americans rafted together in siberia as teammates for the first time.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
It's evident author Michael J. Martinez is enjoying writing this series where "worlds collide." He reads from the first book, The Daedalus Incident...
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 01:40
James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 2
Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story chronicles the history and peoples of America’s most famous and best-loved road. Produced by David Dunaway and...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Apr 07, 2014
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
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
Many generations of people once lived and worked on Virginia's barrier islands — until erosion and hurricanes drove them back to the mainland.
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 06:10
Boontling is a dialect spoken in the tiny town of Boonville, Calif. While every word of the homegrown language tells a story, how and why it emerge...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 12:50
- Purchases: 1
The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 14, 2013
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 5
Michael from Let's Travel radio explains the wonders of provence france. With full detail's from food to music , art and tourist attractions. This...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 58:29
A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 4
Peace Talks Radio rebroadcasts excerpts from the 2011 program produced by Amy Mayer. Produced in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace ...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 4
Who were the mysterious Maya? Their predecessors were nomadic hunters. They followed game animals across the Bering Land Bridge, and populated the ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 27:00
The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in Detroit in 1831 to the quote: “utmost limits of European civilization” and wrote ‘Democracy in Amer...
Bought by The Story, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 4
WYSO producer Aileen LeBlanc takes us to the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta.
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 03:29
Off the Beat explores secret spaces around Providence, including the abandoned underground railroad tunnel, Keeney tunnels, and some less literal p...
- Added: Jan 17, 2012
- Length: 27:47
A short 5minute documentary based on and around the Black Country Waterways based in the Midlands, UK. Interview includes Graham Fisher MBE. One of...
- Added: Dec 03, 2011
- Length: 05:01
A ghostly tour of Washington, D.C.'s second-most haunted house, where many a thing may -- or may not -- go bump in the night...
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:38
