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Caption: Prince Charming Arrives with the 108th Button, Credit: Edward L. Ott 1896 sketch, with Illustrator Overlay
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:24
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Many Broadway composers loved the challenge of writing the big choral number. Some were better at it than others. Some fine examples in this progra...

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


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
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The decade of the 1970's; the music almost died. But there were a few highlights from "Company" and "A Little Night Music" to "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Bought by KVNF and WRR


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Cave art in Lascaux, France
Your Brain on Stories examines how storytelling could have given early humans a critical evolutionary advantage. Is homo sapiens really homo fictus...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A walking tour of Chicago's historical disasters

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
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Goes2Eleven starts its run with a tribute to the jazz giant Joe Pass (1929-1994). We take a look at the guitarist’s early years in Johnstown, PA, h...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 54:06
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Dale Jacobson is a native of Marshall, Minnesota and currently resides in Alvarado, Minnesota. The northwest Minnesota poet discusses his efforts ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
Caption: Warroad, MN native and auther - Henry Boucha
Growing up in Warroad, Minnesota, Henry Boucha became an Olympic and NHL hockey star. He was an Olympic hockey standout in the early 1970’s and p...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 08:38
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With a bizarre hobby comes bizarre stories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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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: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
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A generational discussion concerning the issues of infertility

  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 48:40
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Frank Cioffi reads from his new book, One Day In The Life of The English Language. So, may you end sentences with a preposition?

  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC) spokesperson Therese Jacobson shares the latest news of the NWMAC.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
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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: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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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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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: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
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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 and WABE


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Mo Regalado is the Marketing and Promotions Specialist with the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC). She shares information concerning the NW...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 06:45
Caption: NWMAC Executive Director Mara Hanel
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC) Executive Director Mara Hanel has an update on application deadlines for funding from the NWMAC.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 07:43
Caption:  Floor in Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura (library of Pope Julius II). The room signifies unity, and the Star of David which has 6 points represents also the six day creation story which is in the Christian Bible (of course), so there in the floor it
A walking tour of the Vatican's floors, which are frequently made from re-purposed bits of ancient history.

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
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The Guardians of History features seven archivists working at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library. It explores why we archivists do what we do. It...

Bought by KLCC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
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Not only was Washington, D.C., the site of The Beatles' first full North American concert in 1964... It was also the first North American city to a...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 09:45
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Generational discussion on Opportunity...then and now

  • Added: Dec 08, 2013
  • Length: 29:00