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Tackling the Market
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Kevin Plank
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Chapter 21 - Reinie
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 26:22
Acoustic Stories : Robert Jevne - "Hot Stove"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne discusses his former love of the Chicago Cubs in a lighthearted tone and how their incessant losing seasons defeated his passion for b...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Trick That Turned Skateboarding Upside Down
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: The February 1985 cover featuring McGill unveiling the McTwist, Credit: Transworld Skateboarding
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Shirley Muldowney
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Julie Krone
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Furious Love
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. Plus, a satire of college football. And, a conversation with the son of a scienc...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Muhammad Ali Goes to Mars: The Lost Interview from 1966
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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It was the summer of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a high school radio show near Chicago got the interview of lifetime: Muhammad Ali. But...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WABE, KJZZ, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 6
Life Before & After Title IX in Southern Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Cindy Davis talks about life before and after Title IX in Southern Minnesota.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
Road to Valor
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Gino Bartali
A new book, Road to Valor, by Aili and Andres McConnon is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
HV Special: Home Team (Baseball)
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
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Baseball Stories from Public Radio's Hall of Fame

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNIJ, KQED, KSUT, KERA and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2009) Documentary Review
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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College football classic in 1968 eerily reflects and portends America's political and popular culture future.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly Diamond Innovation - July 18, 1912
From: Michael Scherer
Series: 100 Years Ago Today in The Washington Herald
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Spitball in the Hands of Hostile Hurler is Vicious and Baffling. From the July 18, 1912 edition of The Washington Herald.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
Fifth Olympiad Closes; Glory for United States - July 16, 1912
From: Michael Scherer
Series: 100 Years Ago Today in The Washington Herald
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James Thorpe Wins Decathlon, and America Lands the 1,600-Meter Event. FIVE STRAIGHT VICTORIES From the July 16, 1912 edition of The Washington He...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:59
The Greatest Sports Writing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Sport Poetry
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.

Bought by KSLU and KPVL


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
William Devine Golf Course Audio Postcard
From: Mason Sand
Caption: Mr. Jones on the course, Credit: Mason Sand
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
Culturology: The Mail Run Sled Dog Race
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Gunflint Mail Run
When the John Beargrease sled dog marathon was cancelled, racers banded together to offer an alternate course. The Mail Run race, only a couple wee...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:50
John Wooden
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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An impressionable high school student witnesses a small act of grace on the basketball court involving the legendary college basketball coach John ...

Bought by KSLU and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Great Trade of '62
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Best friends in first grade trade Mantle for Mays baseball cards in a Berkeley schoolyard during a magic year of innocence before the storms of soc...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Canterbury Trail
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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In this interview author Angie Abdou brings to her latest book themes from an ancient English text first made popular in the middle ages to put a m...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 12:29
  • Purchases: 1
Film Review: A League of Their Own (1992)
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Penny Marshall's film brings awareness and respect for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Women Warriors
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Women Warriors in antiquity set the bar high for future female role models.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Johnson and The Great "Race" Race
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight of the Century: Ali - Frazier I
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Two undefeated heavyweight boxing champions capture the imagination of a polarized America on March 8, 1971.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1