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In this episode of The Flyovers, host Alan Wartes talks with centenarian and radio DJ, Felix Belmont.
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
Alexei Romanoff tells his husband, David Farah, about a mentor who taught him to be proud of who he was.
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 03:12
Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded a ship bound for Europe…along with 800 cows.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 19:18
- Purchases: 2
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
This audio was recorded in 2008 when I asked my uncle Mike Alexander to talk about his service as a bombardier in World War II. Mike was a proud Je...
- Added: Dec 27, 2014
- Length: 13:10
Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Margot Karp, 86, moved with her family to Washington Heights, Manhattan, in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Karp has fond memories of her mother's str...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:04
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 04:40
With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
Radio Curious presents a memorial to Michael Toms, the executive producer of New Dimensions Radio in an interview recorded at his home in Ukiah, Ca...
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:07
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 04:52
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
A retired history professor from Montana reflects on a childhood during the Depression, and on the nature of poverty...and happiness.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 5
Central Pennsylvania residents who lived during the Great Depression share their stories.
Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Apr 27, 2009
- Length: 29:49
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 22, 2007
- Length: 08:49
In May 2002, seniors compare the post 9/11 world to Pearl Harbor and World War II.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 28, 2007
- Length: 26:44
- Purchases: 1