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Author Timothy Cochrane talks about his new book "Making the Carry"
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 13:57
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke records in three different sports. Today his...
Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WILL, KOSU, KAAD-LP, KUT and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Whose Land Is It?" -...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
The Buffet with students in the Radio Training Program 02-04-23
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 58:14
A Rocky Journey Into Deep Territory
Bought by WPVM 103.7, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KRZA, Raven Radio and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
Ancient Roman Parasites
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 02:00
Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. How can we travel more e...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 01:59:02
An unhappy coincidence.
Bought by WMTNradio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM, WFHB and more
- Added: Jan 21, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 22
Hot tunes for cold times.
Bought by WMTNradio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KZUM, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 21
Music on the Sunny Side 01-08-23
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 02:57:04
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 01:58:52
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Beatles vs. Stones (once again)
Bought by WMTNradio, WFHB, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more
- Added: Jan 01, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 20
- Added: Jan 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Living With Loneli...
- Added: Dec 30, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the story of Verdelle Louis Payne from Ithaca in Tompkins County, who joined the Army Air Forces during WWII...
- Added: Dec 28, 2022
- Length: 29:30
HOUR ONE: "When Mountains Are Gods" - Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are...
- Added: Dec 23, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Offbeat characters both imaginary and real in musical portrayals by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Slim Gaillard, Cab Calloway, and others.
- Added: Dec 22, 2022
- Length: 59:04
