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Destination North Star State Radio Project is an invitation to learn more about and to explore the North Star State, and is produced by Highway 61 ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2022
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Microsoft's first case of piracy actually happened with their very first product.
- Added: Dec 28, 2019
- Length: 10:25
In 1986 the BBC released a comprehensive survey of Britain. Burned onto two LaserDiscs, the early computer encyclopedia was a technological marvel.
- Added: Dec 28, 2019
- Length: 33:04
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 23:01
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
Computer viruses today pose a very real threat. However, it turns out that their origins are actually very non-threatening. Today, we are going to ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:11
Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 59:42
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 25:35
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 08:19
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...
- Added: May 28, 2017
- Length: 03:23
A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 14:46
- Purchases: 2
This particular Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is the first in a series of three concerning the Untold Story of Immigration in our area. As ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 28:35
A short radio documentary about the 1981 Memorial Day Flood in Austin, Texas that killed 13 people.
- Added: Sep 25, 2016
- Length: :00
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 12:24
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 12:23
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how the God Intoxicated Man, Benedict Spinoza, seeded the Englightenment and became the philosopher for today.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 23, 2016
- Length: 53:38
- Purchases: 2
