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Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 20:08
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 17:53
- Purchases: 1
Author Stanley Booth recounts little-known tales from the night before the Altamont Free Concert (December 6, 1969), when Booth accompanied Mick Ja...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 27:44
Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
Just who were the Pilgrims and what did they want?
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 46:15
- Purchases: 2
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race
- Added: Feb 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Much has been written about the life, times and experiences of Abraham Lincoln, but perhaps the nicest part of the truth is the story of Lincoln an...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2011
- Length: 50:47
- Purchases: 1
It’s been 10 years since the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students. Ar...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Apocalyptic tv, the sounds of The End and the quirk (and power) of memory.
- Added: Mar 10, 2008
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 4
When we light a candle for Lincoln's day we rekindle ours
- Added: Jan 23, 2006
- Length: 02:51
On the 40th anniversary of the recording and release of The Beatles song "Norwegian Wood," commentator Sarah Karni says the song's been a riddle to...
- Added: Oct 15, 2005
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
The voices of men and women who served in the military during times of war.-
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KPIK-LP, Louisville Public Media, WNIJ, and KCUR
- Added: Oct 11, 2005
- Length: 56:15
- Purchases: 5
Christmas day at Ground Zero--Essay
- Added: Oct 02, 2003
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 7
Making a Flute on Sept. 11, 2001 to process the day
- Added: Sep 08, 2003
- Length: 03:44