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"Whats Race Got to do With It ?" part 3
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part 3 of “What’s Race Got to do With It?” Media Management of Minority Images”. previously, Bryant...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:24
Listener Supported: A BackStory Fundraising Special
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: A family listening to the radio in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1939. Photo by Arthur S. Siegel., Credit: Library of Congress.
Pledge drive hour for stations carrying BackStory with the American History Guys. Includes special content on the history of pledge drives and fund...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Tri States Public Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 38:20
  • Purchases: 11
#112 - Small is Beautiful
From: HowSound
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Want to learn how to write an essay? Study The Memory Palace. Nate DiMeo, the podcast’s host, is a master of the form. Though, he says he’s not an ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 24:41
New Orleans Calling: "After The Flood" - How Community Radio Station WWOZ Was Saved In 2005
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: WWOZ's abandoned studio in Armstrong Park, New Orleans
Ten years ago, there was a storm, and then there was a flood, and they changed New Orleans forever. Many stories from that time have been told, but...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
The People's Pope and the Changing Face of Catholicism
From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts
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Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
Just Call me NOLA
From: Nina Feldman
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The genesis, lovers and haters of New Orleans newest nickname.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Dislike Club Finale
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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Your host makes his final attempt to build the ultimate anti-social-media-social-platform. Things continue to decline: the phone in the hand become...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 33:04
  • Purchases: 2
David Degraw Talks About the Psychology and Economics of Revolution on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: David DeGraw
We talk with David DeGraw, author, journalist and Occupy activist, credited with coining the rally cry, "We are the 99%." Two of his books, Econom...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Pavek Museum of Broadcasting is under-the-radar gem
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park focuses on the history of radio and TV broadcasting, especially in Minnesota. Steve Raymer, mana...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 21:22
Small town movie theaters surviving in the digital age
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Albert Maysles - on how childhood experiences shape our art
From: Susan Doran
Caption: Al Maysles and me at The Maysles Institute, Harlem NY
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:44
Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Nila Mack
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 4
Architect Jack Liebenberg's theatrical legacy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:33
President Obama Message to GOPs
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: President Obama with a Message for Republicans
Coverage of the 2015 Annual Democratic National Committee Meeting with keynote speaker, President Barack Obama

  • Added: Feb 22, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
Radio Retrospective: George Burns Loves Gracie Allen
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: George Burns and Gracie Allen
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:51
  • Purchases: 3
Logical Fantasies (the dislike club part V)
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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In the penultimate episode of our series, Kathy Sierra tells us how one tweak could fix everything and ToE’s Chris tells us the secret origin of Fa...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 22:34
  • Purchases: 1
Oddball Film and Video creates an unusual night at the movies
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: In the stacks at Oddball Film and Video.
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
The "last bastion of freak culture" on Valencia turns 30
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If you look beyond the new restaurants, cafés and boutique shops, on Valencia Street there are hints of what gave this neighborhood the reputation ...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 08:24
Interchange - The Hoarders: Pathologizing the Packrat
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:36
Blue screen of death
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: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Radio Retrospective: Radio at War
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Frank Sinatra being interview during World War II, Credit: Wikipedia
Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Retrospective: Rod Serling
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Rod Serling, Credit: Wikipedia
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...

Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 5
Radio Retrospective: The First Woman of Sound Effects
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Ora Nichols (left) and the CBS Sound Effects Team, Credit: Wikipedia
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Retrospective: The March of Time
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
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The 1940s pre-movie newsreel "The March of Time" reenacted news events using actors. Henry Luce called it "fakery in allegiance to the truth." The ...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 3
End of the Rope: How a botched hanging ended the death penalty in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: William Williams
Before Minnesota became the third state to abolish the death penalty in 1911, legislators instituted the nation’s first law to make executions secr...

Bought by WDSE, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 3

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