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Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.
- Added: Sep 01, 2016
- Length: 09:20
Women are only mentioned in the Constitution once: in the Nineteenth Amendment which grants women the right to vote. In 1923, suffragists proposed ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 2
It’s been 50 years since the University of Texas Tower shooting – long considered the first modern mass shooting of its kind. On Aug. 1, 1966, a sn...
Bought by WVTF, KUER, Prairie Public, WBEZ, KUOW and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 53:49
- Purchases: 13
On this episode of The Live Feed we bring you The Winona Municipal Band and its 2016 season. You will hear selections such as Ballad and Dance from...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 50:47
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
On June 24, 1973, an intentionally set fire tore through a New Orleans gay bar killing 32. Rev. Troy Perry came to StoryCorps to recall the aftermath.
Bought by Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and WRIR
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 3
Though the national parks have famously been called “America’s best idea”, this sentiment is not universally accepted. Native Americans were dispos...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
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
May 24th was the 40th Anniversary of the Judgment of Paris, when California wines beat the best the French had to offer in a blind tasting heard 'r...
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 37:30
In honor of the 131st anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a tribute to Paraguayan guitarist-composer A...
Bought by Ohm Radio , New Hampshire Public Radio, WKMS, KXIQ , KTXK and more
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 42
A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 20:25
:20 Promo for Monacan Voices
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: :20
:30 Promo for the full length program
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: :30
:30 Promo for the full length program
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: :31
Beltrami county celebrate its sesquicentennial this year, a fact not lost on the Beltrami County Historical Society. Dan Karalus, Executive Directo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 10:23
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:00
A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 07:57
How is a region of the far north—Canada—intimately connected to a region 2,000 miles away in the Deep South? In this episode of Gravy, the story of...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 25:55
- Purchases: 2
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
Grant Frashier attends the Indigenous People's Day celebration and mini-powwow in Grand Rapids, MN. October 12, 2015.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 1
From the trading room floors to the Milongas of Buenos Aires, how 9/11 and the days that followed took one man on a path of self-discovery.
- Added: Sep 17, 2015
- Length: 26:15
One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
Pink Saturday is a huge street party that takes place every year on the night before the San Francisco Pride Parade. Thousands of people from all o...
- Added: Jul 14, 2015
- Length: 08:39
