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Bruce Henry has dual careers: He is a singer and an educator. Bruce created a syllabus on the history of African American music, and used it as a b...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Avant interviews Betsy Peters, director of programs at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum. She shares her perspective on designing experiences for the...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 18:36
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 27:08
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from 0 to 6. But have you considered the asexual ...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 53:11
Casey Lamb and Roger Horton work with the nonprofit organization Schools That Can. Schools That Can aims to promote real-world learning in educati...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 52:13
A generational discussion on the evolution of grammar in our society and culture.
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 51:27
Anton Treuer has been immersed in higher education for many years. Some of the most common barriers to higher education disproportionately affect s...
Bought by WGZS
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
Generational discussion on the changes we have seen from the older generation doctor visit down to our future telemedicine.
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 57:00
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss
- Added: Oct 10, 2015
- Length: 29:00
One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
What’s patriotic about bluegrass music. Some of it is obvious. And some is just a little under the surface.
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 06:52
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
Laura Poitras talks irony, leaps of faith, and being nominated for the Homeland Security Watch List.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 18:35
The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
The gun control debate often centers around homicides and the fear of someone else with a gun. However, attention is rarely paid to the link betwee...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUER, WXDU, PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 7
Generational discussion on the impact of phones in society
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 02:27
Five times as many people get a brain injury than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be devastatin...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
People born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom turned 65 last year, with more and more Americans entering what experts call “young old age.” One ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 4
A short review of the apocalyptic drama, starring Willem Dafoe and directed by Abel Ferrara.
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 01:59
