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Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk, 2020
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Do you love history? This Thursday on Culture Clique Winona history comes to life with the Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk. This years theme is ce...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:05:29
Memorial Day Memories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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This special Memorial Day episode brings you stories from the Civil War and both World Wars. These stories help us remember and appreciate the sacr...

Bought by KTXK, WVIA, KUHF, KALW, Morehead State Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 18
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 6
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: Cutting The Stone', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This series explores the fables...the renaissance fables of four great authors. This show highlights the work of Leon Battista Alberti...a 'renais...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Sing the Old Songs: Part 2 (episode 4)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old, Credit: Growing Old Project
Picture what it would look like for Seattle's housing and hospital infrastructure to reflect Coast Salish culture. Consider the role that forced st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 2
Sing the Old Songs: Part 1 (episode 4)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Explore the systems of assimilation that aimed to eliminate Native culture in the United States, systems that began in Washington State. Travel to ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 34:44
  • Purchases: 3
Be the Hummingbird (episode 2)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 3
This is the kind of story that begins in a forest
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Growing Old
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old
This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: :59
Spectrum 03/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? - We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today....

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Jeannette Rankin Pacifist and voting rights advocate
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jeannette Rankin, was born in 1880 in her parent’s ranch in Montana and became the first woman elected to Congress in 1917. She was a key organi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 4
Women's History Month Special: The Great American Songbook's Feminist Anthems
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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The Great American Songbook is chockablock with antiquated notions of gender roles, but a few songs flip the script. On this special, we explore so...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Troy Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUNM and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Women100 Gloria Steinem
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
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Women like Gloria Steinem, the voice of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 70s. She used her skills as a journalist and organizer to inform and...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KGHI


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 5
GPS
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS s...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 32:27
Chanukkah In Story & Song
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: The Western Wind
Chanukkah In Story and Song Sung by the The Western Wind Narrated by Leonard Nimoy The acclaimed vocal sextet and the renowned actor present 25 ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WCQS, Radio Kansas, West Virginia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 59
We Are Still Here - "Mir Zaynen Do!"
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: We Are Still Here!
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory; Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1
W.S. Merwin: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Spectrum 03/19/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today. So...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
The Big Pond #12: A House for Reconciliation
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 3
Clyde Bellecourt
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Spirituality Circle
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Clyde Bellecourt talks about his experiences with AIM, native american culture and heritage.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:20
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
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Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Husayn Means Beauty: The Attraction of the Seventh Century Martyr (1 of 2) (ENCORE)
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 15-20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine each year. Part 1 o...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
Legacies
From: Wind & Rhythm
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We owe a great debt to those who come before us in any new endeavor.  Through their trials, hard work, and experimentation, they help lay a solid f...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 4
Independence and Liberty Encore
From: Wind & Rhythm
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1776 was 239 years ago and it has been quite journey. Celebrating the 4th of July, at least to those of us here in the US is a time honored traditi...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4