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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 28:57
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I wa...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 39:19
Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 51:52
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 36:45
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...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:05
Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 02:00
YOU SHOULD KNOW BILLY JOE SHAVER is a program about the Texas singer-songwriter who ROLLING STONE magazine called "an outlaw-country pioneer who wr...
Bought by WUTC, KMSU, KUHF, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and KWMR
- Added: Nov 05, 2020
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
Award-winning author Terry Hodges, inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame, was a game warden for over 30 years. Combat Fishing is a true...
- Added: Oct 20, 2020
- Length: 18:34
"...articulate, thoughtful, moving"
A LIMITED SERIES. Producer Paul Ingles gathers 7 top music writers to talk about their favorite Bruce Springs...
Bought by WHRV, KUOW, KSUT, KSRQ, and KRCU Public Radio
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 5
A trailer to an upcoming series of 3 - hour long programs featuring 7 top music writers picking Bruce Springsteen songs to do deep-dive commentary ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2020
- Length: 10:00
A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...
- Added: Aug 22, 2020
- Length: 48:31
These three musicians changed the public's view of the Blues.
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:49
A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 59:49
Change - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional styl...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 02:25
Happiness - Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice is an Italian television personality, a member of the House of Savoy and the son and heir...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 03:32
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes a look at the life of an artist during the time ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 29:54
When Kayleigh Davis saw Kyler Bourgeous’ profile on a dating app, she liked that he loved the outdoors as much as she did. But what really stood ou...
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 33:19
The story of a color marked by effort and desire.
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 21:30
On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford w...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 16:42
An experiment in living together, forever.
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 23:04
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 29:27
In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack gets in his car and drives around St. Cloud exploring ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 30:00