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Two stories about resilience.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 2
It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 03:25
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 32:46
- Purchases: 1
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
Listen in as Fred and Toody talk about their durability as a band & how a DIY mentality attributed to their 20-year success. Alex Kime edited this ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 21:41
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Over 25 years ago curators Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral went to an estate sale in Illinois. Jerri says they stumbled upon a shoebox that would cha...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
An audio essay that combines science, personal moments, and the wit and wisdom of four 100-year-old (and up) women.
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 10:26
The Old Monk is dying!?
Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for the last 6 de...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 06:00
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the San Juan Ridge. On the Ridge, tucked away amongst towering pines, flanked by two forks of the Yuba R...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 28:25
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jul 20, 2014
- Length: 01:19
For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we revisit best-selling memoirist and fiction writer, Anchee Min. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 05:51
The story of how the River East area of Chicago has changed from the land of greasy spoons and parking lots, into one of the most fashionable areas...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 05:50
Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 13:58
In this feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack takes us on the historic home tour which recently wound its way through the SCSU ne...
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 31:11
Yumei Lay, whose parents immigrated to Chile from China, explores how Chinese and Japanese schools teach the Sino-Japanese wars differently.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 05:01
Why are so many sixties radicals so passionate about Obama?
Bought by WDCV, Jenka Soderberg, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 01, 2008
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 3
David visits Boston and rewrites some history.
- Added: Aug 11, 2008
- Length: 03:45
Enid Wizig is a good mentor for the No Limits Theater Group students. She, like them, is profoundly deaf. They prove there are "no limits" for he...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 14, 2007
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
