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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 29:01
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
In this episode, we ask how Colorado Springs' evangelical Christian community has changed in the decade since former New Life Church Pastor Ted Hag...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 58:59
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 04:23
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 54:26
- Purchases: 88
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
Real Country Time showcases the roots of classic country music.
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 08:20
In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But whi...
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 24:53
- Purchases: 1
A brief look at the issues Saginaw, MI is currently dealing with.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 22:14
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 03:54
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
No one wants to go to prison, but when the St. Cloud Correctional Facility opened its doors to the press last year during its 125th anniversary, KF...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:12
The golden dome of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church has long been a part of the south Minneapolis skyline. KFAI producer Britt Aamodt visits the ch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:17
The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 17:18
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:33
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
