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For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 04:36
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about George Washington Cable, and the beautiful danger of writing New Orleans-based historical fic...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 10:22
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
Space tribute to Ziggy Stardust, the State of Jefferson is declared from the West steps of California's capitol and elongated skulls found by arche...
- Added: Jan 16, 2016
- Length: 02:20:36
CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 20:24
- Purchases: 1
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
Yeats for a Day: The Dublin Musical Saunter 2015 (an all-day event in the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival on June 15 2015) brought together a...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 28:28
In a makeshift library in Ethiopia, Yikealo Beyene – an Eritrean refugee – made an unlikely friend. Her harrowing tale stayed with him as he fled h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 13:59
- Purchases: 1
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 3
An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 24:05
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 03:07:20
- Purchases: 1
California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 15:58
Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:50:47
The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 02:20:44
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven’t resurfaced in the marke...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 21:34
- Purchases: 2
Boneshaker Books is a collectively run, all-volunteer, progressive bookstore in the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis. It has a year round. free b...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
