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Caption: Grandpa & Ramona Jones
Radio and television star, and Country Music Hall of Fame member Grandpa Jones performs live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arka...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Romance gets a history lesson as Mortified dives into the teenage love lives of Baby Boomers. What was really going on inside the journals of adole...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2019
  • Length: 24:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Unhappy with contemporary America, Avery Thompson travels to Plymouth, Massachusetts to consult the man responsible for bringing his family to thes...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Hour One of the program "Ballad Singer" features 11 original interpretations of old ballads, most of them to be found in the Child Ballads collecti...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 54:38
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Comedian, banjo prodigy, Grand Old Opry star and HeeHaw alum Mike Snider performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkans...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
East Tennessee all-girl stringboard “The Poor Valley Girls” perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, Int...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Nationally recognized clawhammer banjo prodigy and Stone County native Lukas Pool with his band “The Moonlight Ramblers” perform live at the Ozark ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Nashville based neo-folk stringband “Locust Honey” performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Original Ozark Stringband “The Leatherwoods” perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with “T...

  • Added: May 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
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In the early 1980s a mysterious creature stalked the woods and beaches of Truro, Massachusetts, a small town on the far end of Cape Cod. This is th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pee Wee Russell
Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vicki Leon
Author Vicki Leon takes us for a ride through the ages of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leslie M.M. Blume, Credit: photo by Billy Farrell
Try to imagine drinking your way through this book! That’s what author Leslie M. M. Blume has done in order to provide recipes for 144 cocktails.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ted Lewis & his ubiquitous silk hat
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Edythe Turnham & her Band
The early history of  jazz often leaves out some very talented musicians simply because they didn’t move to Chicago or New York.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:59

  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13
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A commentary on today's dreadfully tacky Major League Baseball uniforms.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:33
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Visitor Centers Replace Museums. Discuss.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51