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Last year, when the St. Paul Public Library vacated a building in East St. Paul, another venture moved in—and its dynamic focus is spelled out in i...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious continues its series on racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man from Ohio who now lives in Mendocino Count...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Phyllis Allen is Kaitie Marshall?s grandma. She recently spent three months as an aid worker in Darfur for Doctors Without Borders. In this intervi...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 13:29
- Purchases: 1
In Monte Rio, a rural community on the Russian River a few miles south of Guerneville, volunteer Fire Chief Steve Baxman is on-call 24 hours a day....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
When most of us talk on the phone we don’t think much about the cost—it’s pennies. If we don’t like a phone company or can’t afford a plan, it’s pr...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:39
Radio Curious visits with Cuban born singer-songwriter Marcos Pereda, who now lives in Ukiah, California. Pereda shares songs and stories about hi...
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 29:01
How long would your relationship last without a kiss or more than a kiss In America, only three states allow prisoners and their spouses or domesti...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 17:48
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious discusses the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting near Marysville, Wa, the Native American communities impacted by the shooting,...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 29:01
Radio Curious visits with Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness,” a book about hope and it...
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 29:01
Arthur Streeter is taking me to meet an inmate who’s going to be released from jail today.
“So we’re going to pick him up and get something to eat...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s guest is long-time critic of genetically modified organisms and foods, Marti Crouch, a noted academic research scientist in plant molecul...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 56:10
Part of getting older means you can’t get around like you used to. Maybe you can’t drive a car anymore, or hike up those big San Francisco hills to...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:24
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Artist and Chicago native, Maria Gaspar, interviews neighbors to uncover their opinions about what it means to live next to one of the largest pre-...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 13:37
On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 06:12
San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
For high school senior Paula Dinh, the path to graduation has been a long one, with times when she questioned her ability — and desire — to finish ...
Bought by WNIJ
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
We spoke with Generation Justice’s inspiring Victor Torres about some of the challenges he faces as a student with a disability.
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 24:18
The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:35
Radio Curios brings you the second of a two part conversation with former Pentecostal pastor turned atheist, Jerry DeWitt. He's the author of the m...
- Added: Dec 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir ab...
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 29:01
As a kid, Tom Llewellyn fought gentrification with his beloved Thunder Bombs.
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 14:52
This episode of Rumble Strip Vermont is about the high art of Vermont road maintenance.
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 49:42
As a follow up to last week's program, Radio Curious revisits a 2006 conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, psychologist, quadriplegic and author of “...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 01:57