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EARLY UPLOAD! THIS SHOW SHOULD BE USED THE WEEK OF 1/3 THROUGH 1/9. I CANNOT SCHEDULE MY UPLOADS. This is the second Anniversary show for 2022....
Bought by KSRQ, KWIT, KTRL, WOUB, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 19, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
There's a trivia questions goes around asking, what is the first posthumous number one hit? The answer that is probably expected is Sittin on the ...
Bought by KTRL, WYAP, KSRQ, KWIT, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: May 30, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This week in 1969, Rolling Stone made their cover story, Groupies and Other Girls. It is generally believed this is where the word came into commo...
Bought by WNYO, KSRQ, Harford Community Radio, KWIT, and WOUB
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Tired of cold feet and longs nights huddled under not quite warm enough blankets? Maybe you need a box bed. Originating in medieval times, making a...
- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 04:45
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
Dr. Dave Champlin joins Scientifically Speaking to learn more about his experience meditation, doing breath work, and we discuss the ideas presente...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 29:59
Trace follows a trail from shoving boulders downhill to the 18th century sport of hoop rolling.
P.S. Trace mentions in the beginning of the episode...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
From 1920 to 1933, the United States had a ban against the sale and import of alcohol. Almost immediately the whole nation began to find innovative...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...
- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 4
Irish poet Anne Marie Fyfe explores parallels in her poetry with work of the renowned William Butler Yeats for the "Mapping Yeats Symposium" at the...
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: KVSC
The Husky Sports Band at SCSU has had a long and strange tradition throughout the years. From having the fight song banned to having issues with s...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:07
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
A society of weavers and spinners shares their textured, multi-stranded history with the next generation.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 07:24
It’s Garage Sale Season in central Minnesota, but before you put that $1 sticker on the broach you inherited from Aunt Betty, you might want to lis...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 30:02
A beloved Old Monk is dying in India. Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for t...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Bringing listeners back to historic rock moments with clips of breaking media coverage...again!
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight Part One
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 28:59
Potpouri - Program #1 Featuring the Bikersons, Andy Griffith, Tom Lair, Florence Foster Jenkins, Harry Brewer Group, Arch Obler (The Dark)
- Added: Oct 19, 2013
- Length: 29:00
In the last few decades, the general belief that habitual, high-octane swearing should remain the domain of criminals, vagrants, and frustrated hou...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 06:35
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 59:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory hears from Kembrew McLeod – journalist, professor, and intellectual property “prankster” – on how a system meant to encourage innovation ...
Bought by Louisville Public Media, Radio Newark, and KBRP Community Radio
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 3
This is a commercial for a fake product I created to air in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes radio play. It's for a product that acts as an umbrella...
- Added: Mar 10, 2013
- Length: :30
