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Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Barbed Wire and Flowers: A daughter’s story of her perception and relationship with her father. He, a survivor of the holocaust, and she, his adul...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
A decorated veteran who served 24 years in the U.S. Army talks with his wife for the first time about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05
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Kathleen Lindsen interviews Ron Sheckler on "Fat Kat Kountry" (another awesome KFOK radio show)...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 26:46
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Marriage is historically ... and hysterically ... a nontraditional tradition.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:10
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How old is old to you? Imagine what it would be like if the only tool you had for determining a person’s “oldness factor” was the vibrancy of his o...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 24:21
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Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid. Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
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The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:23
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Georgetown Preservation Society's attorney talks about their case against El Dorado County

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 15:58
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Celebrating the life and work of Beatrix Potter

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, The Rough Draft Diaries takes a visit of the National Museum of the Great Lakes, a museum that spans hundreds of years on the Great Lake...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 06:24
Caption: Shenandoah National Park, Credit: Charles McGuigan
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:41
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For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.

  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 48:42
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Dollar General is coming to Georgetown...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 02:53:07
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Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 23:29
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Yip Harburg is remembered mostly for his lyrics to Harold Arlen's music in "The Wizard of Oz". But lets not forget "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" ...

Bought by KMUW, KUPR low power FM, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Poet Carl Phillips explores how life influences the creation of his poetry. Professor Timothy Moore then takes us back to ancient Greece and how an...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:05
Caption: John Carter Cash and Anna Christina duet on a Carter Family classic.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes John Carter Cash, Dale Jett and Al, Alice and Ruth as we celebrate the le...

Bought by KENW, Interlochen Public Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, WETS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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In this Valentine's Days Special, we'll meet Jo and Harvey. Tune in and hear how they met and married 58 years ago in California.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:11
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Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:59
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Groundhog Day fully explored...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:27:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cover Designed by Riverplace
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
Caption: Jerry Benham and Stanley McMurray, Credit: renee wilde
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:23