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Interesting events that happened at a state fair.
- Added: Sep 08, 2006
- Length: 05:35
birthday cake batter runs amok
- Added: Aug 28, 2006
- Length: 02:21
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
The "Wheatland Riot" nine decades ago laid the foundation for creation of an effective union and other steps to improve the miserable conditions of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2006
- Length: 03:14
Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, exploring culture and technology.
- Added: Jul 11, 2006
- Length: 02:00
Part of the audio sketch series, Micro-Texts, exploring culture and technology.
- Added: Jul 11, 2006
- Length: 02:01
Relationships to skin: an artful approach to dealing with pride and self-destruction.
- Added: Jul 11, 2006
- Length: 01:33
Peter Mattox alone in the woods, contemplates wilderness in America.
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 04:36
A musing on the consequences of frequent traveling.
- Added: Jun 21, 2006
- Length: 01:06
- Purchases: 2
How do we remember best - through people or the buildings we live in?
- Added: Jun 21, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 2
David Greenberger's monologue introduces his work with the Duplex Planet, interviews with the elderly that began at a Boston nursing home. Here Gre...
- Added: Jun 18, 2006
- Length: 02:15
Passage of the constitutional ban on same-sex marriages sought by President Bush could make him an Eliot Ness, chasing violators as Ness chased vio...
- Added: Jun 15, 2006
- Length: 03:25
Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" is featured, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.
- Added: Jun 08, 2006
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 30
Sound Rich Journey on a traditional wagon train in North-Central Nebraska.
- Added: Jun 06, 2006
- Length: 04:02
Rembrandt , as he has been seen and portrayed through the ages by admirers and critics, from his contemporaries to the present-day, in various coun...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KFAI Minneapolis, KREV-LP, and WYSO
- Added: May 31, 2006
- Length: 29:31
- Purchases: 4
A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT
- Added: May 27, 2006
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
A Peruvian farming community weighs the risks of entering the market.
Bought by WBEZ and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: May 09, 2006
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
How do divorced moms keep their sanity when their children are visiting the other parent? Sometimes not so well...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 08, 2006
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Although increasingly used by the CIA, FBI and other agencies and private employers, so-called lie detector tests are highly unreliable and serious...
- Added: May 07, 2006
- Length: 02:57
Norml Stamper, fomer Seattle Police Chief, speaks about his first Marijuana bust in 1968
- Added: May 03, 2006
- Length: 07:31
Why do Americans spend billions of dollars and countless hours to maintain a "perfect" lawn?
- Added: May 01, 2006
- Length: 03:49
- Purchases: 2
Ernesto Galarza, now largely forgotten, played a key role in the rise of the farm labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
An ironic look at the efforts to survey frogs as a way to assess the health of rivers.
Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 26, 2006
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, The WFMT Radio Network, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2006
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 3
The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2006
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 1
