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Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: Anti-smoking ad campaign, Credit: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

The Tiny City That Almost Wasn't

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: The water tower of Hilltop, MN, Credit: Matthew Schneeman

There’s a tiny town just north of Minneapolis that is entirely surrounded by Columbia Heights. It's called Hilltop. In a way, Hilltop was forced in...

Space Oddities: Episode 10-Odds 'n Ends

From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

Chapter Nine – Inside Studio 54 – The Real Story of Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

Chapter Nine: The Battle for the Liquor License In spite of the raid on Studio 54 in December 1978, the club remained open and hotter than ever f...

Episode 145: How to Sell a Haunted House

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case th...

The Story: Veterans Day Special (narrated by Alec Baldwin)

From: Stephanie Postles

This immersive Veterans Day one hour special is narrated by Alec Baldwin and uncovers the backstories of six veterans who have built companies, pro...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, KTOO, KCPW Salt Lake City, Raven Radio, KUNM and more

How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Will and Big Business

From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute

Will Rogers had friends in big business, but that did not make them immune from his criticism.

Bought by WYAP

Re:sound - The Whatever Suits You Show

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast

This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make.

Bought by KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, Troy Public Radio and more

Trophy Hair & Antiques

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

My mom raised us to be honest and and sell things not tell someone a big story about them that wasn't true

Bought by PRX Remix

The Man Behind the Projector

From: Out of the Blocks

It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.

Bought by PRX Remix

Bill's Problem With Piracy

From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing

Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.

Work in Progress

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

From “the most expensive pigeon roost in the world” to one of the world’s most unique libraries, Brooklyn’s Central Library has many stories to tel...

Bought by PRX Remix

Episode 108: The Numbers

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...

Bought by ABC

Episode 107: The Widow and the Winchester

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...

New Pine Valley Restaurant

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Brendan Koerner, author of "The Skies Belong To Us"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra Interviews Brendan Koerner about his book "The Skies Belong To Us"

Bought by KRZA

An Absolute Massacre: The 1866 Riot At The Mechanics' Institute

From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300

Caption: The Riot in New Orleans... the Struggle for the Flag. 900 block Canal Street., Credit: The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey at The Historic New Orleans Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns to remember the 1866 massacre at the city’s Mechanics' Institute. It’s part of a series of episodes on the Recon...

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more

Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: The Vidalia Onion Museum in Vidalia, Georgia. , Credit: Photo by Tyler Pratt.

If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Episode 56: Don't Let Me See You In The Whirl

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime in St. Louis with a style all its own, using allit...

Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape (Gravy Ep. 50)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...

Bought by KVLU

When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row

From: Radio Diaries

For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

The Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...

Bought by KSRQ

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