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- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:31:51
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
In a Rough Drafts Diaries first, the connections have run dry. In our last episode, our interview only gave one connection instead of the usual thr...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 06:11
Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:43
In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
This week, The Rough Draft Diaries takes a visit of the National Museum of the Great Lakes, a museum that spans hundreds of years on the Great Lake...
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 06:24
Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. People thought no jail was strong enough to keep hi...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
We discuss diseases and syndromes that distort reality, past societal failures with mental health as well as the brave story of young Nellie Bly. W...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 32:39
- Purchases: 1
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
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
In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson J...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 29:53
In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets Rachel and Jared owners of the design company, Deep In Design. They recently inherited a 13...
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 06:19
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...
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- Length: 01:00:14
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 20:25
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:54
On this episode of Art Beat, we learn about the journey in creating, Lost Conquest. Lost Conquest examines the authenticity of the Kensington Runes...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 23:52
- Purchases: 1
Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Bo...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 2
The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called “the most perfect specimen of a North American tree.” But in 1989, Austin’s city fores...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 22:17
- Purchases: 1
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...
Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 15:05
- Purchases: 4
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 29:01
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
