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Tom Wall is a West Michigan rock star who uses plants as bandmates. He uses a device to harness the electricity in plants, which then turns those i...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:56
David Exelby was scrolling through Reddit when he came across a mysterious post. This guy had stumbled on a ghost town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsul...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 16:04
In October 1960, Prince Akihito of Japan visited Chicago for 21 hours. Chicago’s mayor presented the prince with a diplomatic gift: 18 bluegill. Wh...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 12:32
Red-eared sliders are one of the most common pet turtle species in the world. But they can grow to the size of dinner plates and can live around 40...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:42
A team of archaeologists looks for signs of prehistoric life 100 feet underwater in Lake Huron. But they need help narrowing their search. So, they...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:20
Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 18:30
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, but ultimately received the ca...
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 27:20
Stories about the joys - and challenges- of living at the intersection of Blackness and Queerness
Bought by WFSU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WRKF and more
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 6
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 24:10
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, and later became the youngest ...
- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 27:25
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 26:36
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 25:47
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 27:06
John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 27:47
The Covid shut down occurred almost four years ago to the day. This piece includes On the Front Lines, with a guy by the name of Leigh Carter, a nu...
- Added: Feb 27, 2024
- Length: 23:28
Abigail Spanberger swore an oath at age twenty-four “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and d...
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 21:33
Some things are temporary.
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
From our words, to dance, to the everyday sounds that surround us, we explore the special ways we express and feel the love..
Bought by KALW, WFSU, KVCR, WGBH Radio Boston, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 52:10
- Purchases: 12
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 26:38
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 48:10
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
