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Radio Curious discusses whales and the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedfor...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 29:01
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
As the temperature and population continue to rise in the southwestern United States, water becomes scarcer than ever. How did we get here? Will th...
Bought by KVNF, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 29:20
- Purchases: 3
Who doesn't enjoy that refreshing feeling when you walk in from 90 degree heat to the cool blast of an air-conditioned room? Last month extreme hea...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Social media is very prevelant in our society today, on this episode of Culture Clique, we delve into it. On Tuesday March 15th, WSU hosted the 2nd...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 51:41
Host Bob Kustra interviews Charles Fountain about his book, "The Betrayal: the 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball."
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 30:31
- Purchases: 1
The Fifth Symphony opens very famously with four memorable notes. Beethoven was asked what he meant by this opening and he’s said to have replied, ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 59:18
The decade of the 1970's; the music almost died. But there were a few highlights from "Company" and "A Little Night Music" to "Jesus Christ Superstar"
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
RENT, THE LION KING and RAGTIME are just a few of the highlights of the 1990's.
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WVTF, and WRR
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 3
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 16:04
Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Bo...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 2
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 13:30
Brian Fagan discusses how animals have shaped our history and how our conception of them has changed over time.
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 22:57
- Purchases: 3
Nathan Ward, who was an editor with American Heritage, has written for The New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, n...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 12:44
Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 14:06
Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 12:26
Musa Gurnis describes the characteristics and lasting influence of theater in Shakespeare's time.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 13:50
A shelterbelt is a line of trees, meant to protect from the wind and snow. Farmers plant them to keep fields from eroding or topsoil from blowing a...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
Levinson, a former finance and economics editor at The Economist, discusses the compelling history of what was once the world's largest retailer.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 30:41
On this episode, Jimena Canales discussed the debate of Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein.
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 31:58
- Purchases: 2
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
Grant Frashier attends the Indigenous People's Day celebration and mini-powwow in Grand Rapids, MN. October 12, 2015.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 1
TJ English is an award winning journalist and screenwriter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 16:14
