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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 02:49:23
HOUR ONE: "Facing Hate" - Is fascism back? Neo-fascist groups are winning hearts and votes in Europe and beyond. This hour, why we should be worrie...
- Added: Feb 23, 2018
- Length: 01:58:56
In the very soil of the surrounding mountains of Tucson and within the city boundaries lays an age-old history of this local tribe and this story i...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 36:27
Today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, January 27, with the first half of a two-part...
- Added: Jan 21, 2018
- Length: 30:12
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 52:00
Guiding thoughts to live by. All sorts of music and one spoken word (Martin Luther King Jr).
- Added: Nov 10, 2017
- Length: 02:58:46
In part two of this interview with husband and wife writers, poet Geoffrey Brock and novelist Padma Viswanathan, the couple discusses their shared ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Should we deface or remove artifacts based on political or religious beliefs of the day? Destroy statues or remnants of societies how may not belie...
- Added: Oct 28, 2017
- Length: 04:56
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
Jamie Harrison discusses her new historical novel, The Widow Nash. She also reads passages from the book.
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Listen in as Fred and Toody talk about their durability as a band & how a DIY mentality attributed to their 20-year success. Alex Kime edited this ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 21:41
Many people have heard of the brutal dictatorships that ruled Soviet Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. RadioActive youth producer and high s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 04:55
From: Out of Bounds
Journalist (LAT) and author BILL CARLSEN discusses his compelling book "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & T...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
The Last Flapper is a one woman play co-produced by Visions Theatre and Long Lake Theater that retrospects the life of Zelda Fitzgerald. Wife of...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 14:19
Five previously undiscovered Kurt Vonnegut short stories have been discovered in Indiana University's Lilly Library.
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Over many years, Grand Portage resident Rick Anderson and his family collected thousands of historic artifacts near the Boundary Waters. Now, he ha...
- Added: Aug 21, 2017
- Length: 21:17
Standalone fundraiser spots and handoffs for use by stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program, or who regularly feature Ken...
Bought by WHQR and Delta College Public Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2017
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
The Big Winnie Store and RV Park along Highway 2 at Bena is a place you can't miss. Its Bavarian style architecture combined with the pagoda style...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 14:23
An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 20:40
We asked our members where were you during the summer of love?
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 10:33
