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- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 01:03
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
Just last year the U.N. reported that malnutrition rose to about 768 million people. Sandip Roy wonders if the time for insects as food is upon us.
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A postcard from Lake Titicaca, Peru.
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- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons....
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- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'Mysteries of Migration' - Millions of animals migrate every year to a destination they've never seen. How do they do it — and what can w...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
In an essay for The Believer, the Black Mountain Institute’s flagship magazine, the writer Kyle Paoletta declares that there is a singular ethos of...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:13
Sam Forbes is a writer, photographer, and actor. For many years, a significant part of her creative practice took place inside what she calls a hid...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 12:28
Investigating subversion - written and voiced by Emily Pratt.
Emily and I get trapped in a necropolis in São Paulo, then speak to bassists Joe Lal...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 25:31
The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 54:04
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:14
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 04:00
The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 17:05
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
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
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...
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- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 16:34
- Purchases: 3
This week Mike McGrath interviews Lorraine Ballato, Author of "Success With Hydrangeas: A Gardener's Guide"!! And as always, guides your fabulous ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 54:59
“I will never forget it.” That’s something you’ll hear, something you’ll hear quite a lot out here. “I know what I saw.” Do they know? Do you?
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- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We stand with our backs to the future, watching the past roll away, and trying to guess what next the past will hold. On Stay Human, Steve Downing ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2019
- Length: 58:18
The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
One of the biggest threats we find ourselves defending against as conscious beings is the unknown in its many forms. So in this episode we’re gonna...
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 26:38
- Purchases: 2
I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...
- Added: Sep 16, 2018
- Length: 13:08
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00