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Surrounded by three generations of her family, 92-year-old Ruth Ellis reflects upon 70 years of marriage to her 94-year-old husband, Paul, learning...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 09:24
A one-hour documentary special in honor of the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary, Peace Corps Voices uses historic recordings and contemporary intervie...
Bought by KALW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KUNM and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 12
A timely generational discussion on Infidelity
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 14:30
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Karol Wojtyla's path to papacy is laid out in this episode of Kaleidoscope.
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 46:52
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...
Bought by KTXK
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 44:32
- Purchases: 1
The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:01
Billy Taylor played with the best in the business. But his contributions to jazz went far beyond the bandstand.
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 09:46
- Purchases: 8
“Whoever would understand the heart and mind of America had better learn the game of baseball...” As this quotation sums up our attitude toward the...
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 58:48
- Purchases: 2
Lenny Rico and wife Cindy talk about inheriting the longest running Italian-American radio show from Lenny’s parents, Emelino and Mary Rico. Their...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:52
Legendary radio broadcaster Stan “Stas” Jasinski was a fixture of Buffalo’s Polish community for decades before his passing in 2005. His longtime ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:23
Jesus, in this narrative, emerges from the shadows to walk in a world peopled by simple hard-working men in a town called Nazareth. A town where a ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 48:58
Nobleman, soldier, gambler, womanizer, priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus—and all this of just one man!
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 46:50
The life, times, and music of Irish tenor, John McCormack.
- Added: Feb 17, 2011
- Length: 50:54
Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with this edition of Kaleidoscope. From Mose the Firefighter to terminology and Irish practices, here is a look at th...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 47:56
- Purchases: 1
Dedicated to the late broadcaster, J.P. McCarthy—Detroit's #1 Irishman—here is a two-hour celebration for St. Patrick's Day. In song, poetry, and p...
- Added: Feb 11, 2011
- Length: 01:33:41
- Purchases: 2
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race
- Added: Feb 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Jan 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Older, middle and younger generations discuss loyalty
- Added: Jan 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Much has been written about the life, times and experiences of Abraham Lincoln, but perhaps the nicest part of the truth is the story of Lincoln an...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2011
- Length: 50:47
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 03, 2011
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Here presented is the life and times of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave wh...
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: 49:49
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. In this program, we hear the history of the first North African to set foot in ...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Dec 14, 2010
- Length: 47:27
- Purchases: 1
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month.
Remembering: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Estaban, Phillis Wheatley, Bill Pic...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 37:38
