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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A night of great interstitials from the Firesign Theater and a reading and music ab...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 02:48:30
Ferrato's Later On Decatur and a round of "before they were."
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 02:38:09
Get set for the twisted tale of Anna Marie Jarvis, the mother of Mother's Day. I'll warn you, it's not all hearts and flowers. While many of us kno...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 06:34
A retrospective of 2012, mixing the sounds and emotions of an incredibly dark and stormy year into a hour long montage.
Bought by KCLU, KVMR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, North Country Public Radio, KSFR and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2012
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 7
In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 15:33
Poet Trish Reeves draws inspiration from family history, human resilience, and a series of glass negatives which are featured in NEW LETTERS magazi...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, Brian Williams, Richard Nixon's Head and others wrap the 2012 Electi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 59:44
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 33:33
THE TALKING DRUM, is a program which samples the rhythms of the descendants of African slaves brought to the new world of South America and the Car...
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 51:29
For the second week of December (12/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who used music to break down the barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
The Radio Rounds crew takes a trip to the famed Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia — a museum that welcomes tens of thousan...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 59:12
- Purchases: 1
From the squeamish advertisements and sweatshops of the 1890's to the risqué bullet bras and silk sleepwear of the 1940's and 50's, Susan Marks chr...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 16:17
- Purchases: 1
Today on Don't Cha know we continue our coverage of The Big Muddy River Rendezvous that took place in Winona at Prairie Island campground in the mi...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 15:23
- Purchases: 1
A witch sits atop a monster who has been turned to stone and brews the weather for those below.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 02:46
More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The woman who became a man so she could become a doctor.
Bought by KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 09:18
- Purchases: 3
Sharon Chmielarz has had poems published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent,...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 16, 2011
- Length: 23:45
- Purchases: 1
He was shy, geeky ... a genius ... and helped turn the tide in World War II.
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Walter Breuning is believed to be the world's oldest man. He was born in 1896...
- Added: Oct 18, 2010
- Length: 04:56
Someone beamed the Woodstock festival into the new millenium: Woodstock Artists remixed, mashed-up and mixed with original festival speeches and at...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 13, 2010
- Length: 01:59:26
- Purchases: 1
A provocative tour into one of America's most curious museums, The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
- Added: May 23, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 3
The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their haunting...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
Who invented radio? Marconi or Tesla? 90% of people get this wrong. Find out by attending the Supreme Court trial in 1943. The answer will surp...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2010
- Length: 49:13
- Purchases: 1
It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 03:50
