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Too Soon? The First Family 60 Years On
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
Open Spaces, October 6, 2023
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces
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On today’s show, we remember Mathew Shepard - a gay University of Wyoming student murdered 25 years ago this month.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 45:11
9 Jul: The Sun Sets On ‘Eldorado’
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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One of the BBC’s biggest-ever flops, soap opera ‘Eldorado’, broadcast its final episode on 9th July, 1993 - just one year after it had begun, at a ...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:50
Radio's First Announcer interviewed
From: JAMES MEHRLING
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On the centennial of the first US commercial broadcast, this is a rebroadcast of an interview with its announcer, recorded 65 years later, in 1985,...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 07:44
IE: Inside Europe, 5/24/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Secret video footage brings down Austria's government . Is Istanbul's mayoral election re-run a blow to Turkey's democrac...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
9/11 Unmasked: A Conversation with Elizabeth Woodworth and Graeme MacQueen about the 9/11 Consensus Panel
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Graeme MacQueen and Elizabeth Woodworth
The 23-member 9/11 Consensus Panel is building a body of evidence-based research into the events of September 11, 2001.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
Danny Goldberg, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Danny Goldberg
Music executive, Danny Goldberg, discusses 1967 and the counterculture.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 3
Big Talk: Kristin Leaman-Morris
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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IU Bicentennial archivist Kirstin Leaman-Morris joins Michael Glab on this week's edition of Big Talk!

  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
The Year Without a Summer
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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How a cataclysmic volcanic eruption inspired a teenage girl to write a literary masterpiece.

Bought by KZYX, KSFR, PRX Remix, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WABE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 17:23
  • Purchases: 5
Judgment of Paris 40th Anniversary
From: Jeff Davis
Series: On The Wine Road
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May 24th was the 40th Anniversary of the Judgment of Paris, when California wines beat the best the French had to offer in a blind tasting heard 'r...

  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 37:30
"The stuff dreams are made of" - the search for the Maltese Falcon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Litography Project
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The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Gone With The Wind, The Holiday Premiere
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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75 years ago, on December 15, 1939, Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel (1936) turned blockbuster film, Gone With The Wind, premiered ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 15:17
Making Contact’s 20th Anniversary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A 20th anniversary edition of Making Contact. We hear the story of the program’s creation by volunteers, and how this little radio show became part...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Northern Community Radio - "Bicentennials and Beginnings."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Fresh Fruit: 35 Years of Queer Radio
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
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Fresh Fruit: 35 Years of Queer Radio chronicles the history of the nation's longest running LGBT radio show. Fresh Fruit first aired on Twin Cities...

Bought by KALW and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:18
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Back to Dallas-The 60th Anniversary Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Love Field 11/22/1963
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas. We mixed...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Radio New Zealand, and WXDU


  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Ruben Salazar
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Experience Hispanic Heritage
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In the 1960s, a Civil Rights Movement in the Latino community was beginning to take hold. Young Mexican Americans began to organize for greater pol...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 2
#22 - Happy Birthday Studs
From: HowSound
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Studs Terkel would be 100 today! We mark the occasion with an excerpt from the radio doc "Working with Studs."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 1
Police Tape: From Rodney King to Aiyana Jones
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Police filming students during the anti-cuts demonstration in London, Credit: Cleaner Croydon
It’s been 20 years since four white police officers were cleared of unlawfully beating Rodney King in Los Angeles. But we might never have heard of...

Bought by WCSU-FM and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Producer Profile: Bennie Klain
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Bennie Klain
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with award winning filmmaker Bennie Klain.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 17:11
1971: 'An American Family'; Our First Reality TV Show
From: Action Speaks Radio
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What's Real? What's Not? Does Anybody Care?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Freedom Riders (Student Narrated Version)
From: PBS
Caption: From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Pictured: In Annisto, Credit: Corbis
From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Freedom Riders
From: PBS
Caption: From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Pictured: In Annisto, Credit: Corbis
From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 4
NPR's Scott Simon Remembers Space Shuttle Columbia
From: Feliks Banel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon recalls anchoring live breaking coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2011
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
"The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
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Interviews with John Houseman and Howard Koch highlight this 1988 documentary, reissued for the 70th anniversary of the infamous Orson Welles radio...

Bought by KHNS, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 14