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The Search for Fort Holes, Dakota Conflict Era Settlers Fort, Begins on the SCSU Campus
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is about a critical St. Cloud building that hasn’t existed for over 100 years and the Minnesota Histori...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:45
How Many Wives are Enough?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with David Ebershoff, author of "The 19th Wife," a book about Ann Eliza Young, and her realization and then quest to speak out...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans Calling: "After The Flood" - How Community Radio Station WWOZ Was Saved In 2005
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: WWOZ's abandoned studio in Armstrong Park, New Orleans
Ten years ago, there was a storm, and then there was a flood, and they changed New Orleans forever. Many stories from that time have been told, but...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Violence Against Women
From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts
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Violence against women is a global problem. We discuss the origins of gender violence and its existence throughout history.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:01
Ellis Island:  Those Who Arrived There, Why, and What Was it Like?
From: Barry Vogel
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about Ellis Island, it's history and the people who arrived there, with Andrew Weiss, a historian and then to...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
SITPE # 1527
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A seedy road trip

Bought by KWMR, KSRQ, KKRN, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Author Peter Gorton Talks About the Greatest Baseball Player You May Have Never Heard Of, Negro League Pitcher John Donaldson, and His History in Minnesota
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Summer is the time for baseball all over the country, and in Minnesota that’s no different. The history of baseball in Minnesota, however, has inc...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:56
The Pentagon Papers
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked top-secret, military documents about the Vietnam war in 1971. ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
After Attica
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Naomi Oreskes on “Merchants of Doubt”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
A recent Pew survey found that 48% of Americans are still unconvinced that global warming is happening and that human activity is causing it. How c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
1968 Bullock Museum
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
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Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
Life of the Law #50: The Diaper Wars
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In the 1980's, the world's two largest diaper companies set out to destroy each other, in a patent battle known as the Diaper Wars. The court battl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 17:55
  • Purchases: 1
Bob Marshall: Louisiana Encroachment, Pt. I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
http://kalw.org/post/evolution-affordable-housing
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 12:13
RACE: My Story and Humanity's Bottom Line
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Lauren Nile
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces her readers to some provocative ideas in her book RACE: My Story and Humanity’s Bottom Line. Her work delves deep in...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Redevelopment on Oretha Castle Haley is Slow but Steady
From: Nina Feldman
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Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City has recently seen a lot of redevelopment. Why has it been so hard to bring business back to this bou...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
William J. Mann discusses "Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 21:16
Her Honor
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Lori Sturdevant of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reading an excerpt from her book "Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minne...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Eruption that Changed the World -- Groks Science Show 2014-10-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Gillen D’Arcy Wood discusses the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Bought by WYAP, KPVL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 35:00
  • Purchases: 3
All the Presidents' Bankers
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wall Street during the Panic of 1907, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
From family friends and trusted confidants to the present day, Nomi Prins, journalist and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, retraces the...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Why the Chicken Became a Nugget and Other Tales of Processed Food
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Crisco and chicken nuggets, Credit: CHF collections and Evan Amos, Wikimedia Commons.
Have you ever wondered how chicken nuggets are made? Or what propylene glycol monostearate, monocalcium phosphate, or other listed ingredients are ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 4
Berlin Journal - Richard Holbrooke's Legacy
From: The American Academy in Berlin
Series: Berlin Journal
Caption: Richard C. Holbrooke
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:36
SITPE # 1429
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Most songs ever!

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Classic Rock Originals - Part Two
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Pt. 2 from last week's show! Get your fill on who ORIGINALLY wrote your favorite classic rock songs with Dr. Joe Burns and Monique Gregoire. The hi...

Bought by KSKQ and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2

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