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Ep 2: Teddy Meets the KGB
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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Teddy assumed the KGB would monitor his travels around the Soviet Union. In Kiev, Teddy discovers that someone went through his luggage. And half-c...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 37:27
Scary Moments
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This season has focused on women in aviation. Thus far, we’ve heard stories of triumph, adversity, and everything in between. Today, we’re going ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Denali Base Camp
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this season, we’ve been focusing on women in aviation. For this episode, we’re going to focus on a job unique to the area, effectively running ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women Aviators
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is The Blue Tarp, stories of Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley as told by those who lived them. On this episode, we’re going to hear what it m...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Air Taxis
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is The Blue Tarp, stories of Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley as told by those who lived them. On this episode, we’re going to begin our look...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Flying in the Susitna Valley
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
For this season, we’re focusing on aviation in the area, particularly the stories told by and about women in the field. For this episode, we’re g...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women in Alaska Aviation History
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Thank you for listening to this episode, which marks the beginning of our third season, which will focus on women in aviation.

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Riding Jane Crow (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Riding Jane Crow (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
Caption: Barbara Johns
From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KCSB-FM, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Riding Jane Crow (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
Caption: Barbara Johns
From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by KZYX, RadioStPete Florida, KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 12
Riding Jane Crow (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Take Me To The River: New Orleans - a celebration of music history and legacy
From: World Footprints LLC
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Music is a powerful universal language where white musicians and black musicians come together, protect and stand by each other to create something...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 34:06
The Apple Seed - A Titanic Survivor's True Story from Storyteller Pippa White
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, storyteller Pippa White will tell us the tale of a woman who, faced with a long ocean voyage, makes kind of a stub...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Ep 1: Teddy Greets the Soviet Union
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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Teddy Roe took an extraordinary trip to the USSR in 1968. For three months, he travelled from one end of the USSR to the other. Most Americans at t...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 51:20
The Time of the Roadrunner
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the oth...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
3: A Primer on Midwestern Cider, 05/24/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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In this hour, we are drinking our way through the Midwest starting with hard cider. Our guests introduce us to the multifaceted world of cider maki...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 2
2: Midwestern Cocktail Culture, 05/19/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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Capri is joined by author Jeanette Hurt. Jeanette has written 12 books about food and drink including Wisconsin Cocktails and The Joy of Cider: All...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 2
Escaping The Narcissism of The American Dream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tiffanie Drayton, Credit: © Marcus Duncan 2021
Next, a conversation with Tiffanie Drayton, author of the new book Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of The American Dream. Drayton e...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Yosemite // Hetch Hetchy
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from one of America's favorite national parks.

  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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Americans believed the Soviet Union was cut off from the West. Nothing went in. And very little came out. Yet, tens of thousands of Americans visit...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:42
Constant Wonder - Lost at Sea
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jonathan Franklin shares the story of how Salvador Alvarenga survived for more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Joan Druett shares the para...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Last Blast of Winter
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode about the desert in winter, appropriate for our spring blast of rain and snow and cold, cold te...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
28: Unexpected Slices of Life from Iowa and Missouri, 04/21/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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On this episode, we share two different slices of life from across the midwest. First, we focuses on experiential learning in the food space. The C...

Bought by KRPS and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Phantom Plane Crash on a Utah Highway
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happened to Army Private Gerry Irwin on a Utah two-lane? There was no plane crash, no passengers, nothing by Pvt. Irwin unconscious in the Uta...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
27: The Effervescent World of Midwestern Craft Soda...or Pop, 04/07/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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In this episode, we are drinking in the effervescent world of Midwestern craft soda. We meet makers and purveyors of unique pop products. Mark Laz...

Bought by KRPS and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 2

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