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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to local jazz legend, Gene Parker. Gene has been a professional musician in the Toledo area for...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 06:06
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We talk with filmmaker Deborah Shaffer and film editor Rachel Reichman about Queen Of Hearts, their wonderful documentary about the life and work o...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 48:39
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Producer Alex van Oss ponders the external, internal, and eternal meanings of buildings in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. The result is a perso...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Prodcuder Jeff Carmack heads over to the University Archives once again to c...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:58
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
Caption: Lee Nye's portrait of Joe Malatare
Jean Belangie-Nye, Aaron Teasdale, and Ben Ferencz discuss their book, "A Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nye's Eddie's Club Portraits."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A portion of the Connie Nelson mural in Hallock, MN
Artist Connie Nelson of Hallock, Minnesota shares her story of enhancing the quality of life and the growth of a city in the far northwestern corne...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 09:50
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Sven Olaf Nelson began his printing press shop with a small table-top proof press and a few drawers of type in 2001, now he has over 300 drawers an...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:11
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we start off Black History Month with an innovative partnership that has come together around the Min...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:58
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An eclectic collection of songs with a familiar theme in their lyrical content. The debut album from 'Moanin' Jack Webb', '2020 Pandemic of Fear'

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:58
Caption: The Last Shift
Mott Hupfel - Cinematographer - The American Astronaut, The Savages, Jack Goes Boating, All is Bright, Eating Animals, The Last Shift

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Author and scholar Gretchen E. Minton discusses her book, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Write...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 31:58
Caption: Veterans Memorial in Viking, MN
Viking, MN resident Cheryl Peters led the charge in creating a Veteran's Memorial in the small Northwest Minnesota town. The response from regiona...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: Paintings by Beau Bakken of Hallock MN
Beau Bakken of Hallock, MN is a chip off the old block.... or should we say "Rock" when it comes to creativity and artistic success!

  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:31
Caption: Rock Bakken of Hallock, MN
Rock Bakken of Hallock, MN is deeply rooted in his community and in the region. He's been and continues to be the proprietor of a shoe and clothin...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 08:09
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Would we know actual Fascism if we saw it? Unfortunately, the answer to that question appears to be “not until it is too late.” Created from act...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Gretchell Cano and Luz Estrella Cruz explore the work of Hai...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 08:40
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Ben Vinarski and Reese McMichael venture to an abandoned hot...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 10:59
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This one hour program is part of a series that explores the finest electric music of the '60's and '70's.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), KEOS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KGLT


  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
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Alicia Spilde of Warren, MN is part of community effort to establish a new military veteran's memorial at the Marshall County Courthouse in Warren....

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:59
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After 43 years of broadcasting, 2020 budget cuts may bring us to an end. This compilation program features audio from four decades of our archives ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us to the movies with a very unlikely journey. ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: 'Touched By The Devil', Credit: Hieronymus Bosh
This spoken word program explores some of the timeless, and profound fables of Bartolomeo Scala. He was a true 'renaissance man', and his literatur...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00