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The Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show - Episode 1013
From: Cowboy Jubilee Show
Series: The Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Minnesotans and Bragging - "No Time To Brag. Holes To Dig, Or Talk About Digging. You're Welcome."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown: "Jettisoning Important History To Brighten the Future?"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
Liberace & His Spectacular Crystal Closet
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

Bought by WORT, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 3
How Richie Havens Started Woodstock (5:20)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Veteran Repays Near-Half-Century Debt
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Cliff Brody looks at an old photo of his deceased friend/sergeant, Joe Blakely, who changed Cliff’s life during the Vietnam War., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 3
Platinum Gospel "Shirley Caesar"
From: Barbara Kovacs
Series: Christian Minstrel Pioneers
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Join host Bill Bulbeck as he explores the life, times and music from the reigning "Queen of Gospel" Shirley Caesar in Episode #2 of Christian Minst...

Bought by KZYX and WSGE


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 2
A Little Bit of Hartford History
From: Catie Talarski
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Reminiscing on Hartford's past.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
209: Canals
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Göta Canal, Credit: Insightguides.com
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
Chapter 19 - Saying Good-bye
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 20:05
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Beaver House in Grand Marais closes its doors
From: WTIP
Series: Moments In Time
Caption: The Beaver House, Credit: www.thebeaverhouse.com
The Beaver House has long been known for its giant jumping walleye and custom made "Beaver Flick" lures. But after 48 years as a fixture on the co...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Mmm...first-ever food exhibit opens at National Museum of American History
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted the day after Thanksgiving with Paula Johnson, curator at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 18:39
  • Purchases: 1
Fields of Remembrance
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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To honor the young men who sacrificed their lives in the D-Day invasion, Brigadier General Casey Brower takes young cadets on tours of the American...

Bought by WJCT, Indie3 Radio, KVSC, Radio Catskill, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 17
Culturology: "Yorkville Twins" - Authors Joseph G. Gindele and John F. Gindele talk with Heidi Holtan and Scott Hall in a Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Yorkville Twins" by Joseph and John Gindele
Joseph and John Gindele are twin brothers that grew up on the unforgiving streets of Yorkville on Manhattan’s ethnic Upper East Side over 60 years ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
Norman Rockwell
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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American artist Norman Rockwell paints nostalgia as we would like to have remembered it in pre-WWII sport art. And, an original poem by Doc to hon...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Landmarks: Time traveling in San Francisco's Tenderloin district
From: KALW
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The Uptown Tenderloin Historic District is trying to preserve its history with funding from SF Grants for the Arts and the city’s Neighborhood Arts...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 08:51
Culturology: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, MN
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Live Feed Presents: Chocolate, Shakespeare and Champagne! Season 9 Preview Night of The Great River Shakespeare Festival
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On The evening of June 9th, the Winona community gathered at the Historic Huff Lamberton House for one of the most anticipated events of the summer...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 35:48
  • Purchases: 1
Nu-mis-ma-tics!
From: George Drake, Jr.
Caption: New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London
What's all the fuss about coin collecting?

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 09:59
Our History: Kaleva Hall - A history
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Kaleva Hall
Aila Ivonen talks with Scott Hall about the history of Kaleva Hall, a temperance hall in Virginia built in 1906.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Peggy and Hugh: An Oral History
From: Laura Herberg
Caption: Peggy and Hugh, then and now.
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:18
Collective Memory of the Arts in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with retired SCSU Arts Professor Ted Sherarts about the Collective Memor...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:39
The Great Trade of '62
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Best friends in first grade trade Mantle for Mays baseball cards in a Berkeley schoolyard during a magic year of innocence before the storms of soc...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1

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