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On this episode of Art Beat we talk to local historian and stereo photography buff, Bob Taunt. Bob recently gave a presentation about the history o...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:06
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The term Jimmy Legs describes both a syndrome and the restless leg bumping up and down that some of us do when nervous or full of energy. Let's fin...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
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In this edition of Lives in Music, Robin Valk talks with John Mostyn, who has been, if anything, more involved with more music that almost anyone i...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 44:20
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Born in Kansas in 1877, Maud grew up to be the first white female tattoo artist in the United States.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:29
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What does it mean to be born a U.S. citizen?

Bought by PRX Remix, KVSC, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 3
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hal Blaine
Celebration of one of greatest drummers of all-time, Hal Blaine with dozens of his classic contributions to thousands of sessions and a record num...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:37
Caption: Engraving on marble reproduction of the painting of the execution of Francisco Ferrer, made by Flavio Costantini. Behind the soldiers, two monks, a bourgeois and a civil guard attend the execution.
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
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Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:25:52
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Professional criminal...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:25:04
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
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He's running for El Dorado County Supervisor, District 4 (so say goodbye to the incumbent while you can)...

  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:50:30
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Kate Magruder, who portrays Louise Smith Clapp, who, under the pen name Dame Shirley, documented Califor...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:02
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Radio curious revisits a conversation with Diane Eickhoff, who portrays early women's rights activist Clarina Nichols in this chautauquan style int...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Hypatia of Alexandria. It's a tale of murder, mayhem an...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 32:47
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode I talk to Tiff who started Fanny Adams Vintage as well as Project Awesome, a project bent on advertising local artists & creating a...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 35:59
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The star... the origin and history of the Christmas tree... and oh, it's a wonderful life!

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:27:46
Caption: The Rape of Eve by Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 3
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For the first time in history, the Roman Senate elects an emperor... sonic weapons attack an American embassy and doom's day is this Saturday!

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:28:52
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Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:20:37
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Lizzy Borden had an axe...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:42:35