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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 30:33
- Purchases: 1
Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional, regional, down-home music of the US, his adopted hom...
Bought by WDCB, KICI Iowa City, WNYO, and KWMR
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 4
Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 13:32
- Purchases: 2
In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 23:47
Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
An audio story about working in the Herman B Wells Library.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1