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Technology advances at breakneck speed, so why hasn’t the electric grid changed in 60 years? This week’s episode explores things, that for one rea...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:28
Caption: Ep 3 title card, Credit: Greta Rybus
Tyler Armstrong is 12-years-old. He loves video games, laser tag, and he wants to become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest. In this episo...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
Caption: Episode 2 title card, Credit: Greta Rybus
Ever since becoming a reporter, Sam has heard stories about a secret hunting reserve in New Hampshire, stocked with elk and 200-pound wild boar. I...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:28
Caption: Title card, Credit: Greta Rybus
How do you define wilderness? Why are humans drawn to summits? Will the cold-hardy kiwi save a struggling local economy, or will it destroy a nativ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:29
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How the heck do you get a silent film star on the radio?

  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:16:54
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Joaquin Murrieta became notorious during the California gold rush, and even inspired an author to write a famous swashbuckler. And an ancient city...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:25:39
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Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of The Live Feed we bring you the Winona Municipal Band and their 2016 season. You will hear selections such as Hosts of Freedom by...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 54:42
Caption: William Jennings Bryan
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 22
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Johnny Appleseed was a real man...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:31:51
Caption: Mortified logo, Credit: Jered Bogli
Need relief from all the juvenile antics of campaign season? From PRX's Radiotopia, "MORTIFIED'S TOTALLY JUVENILE ELECTION SPECIAL" is your antidot...

Bought by KPIK-LP, WUTC, KJZZ, Troy Public Radio, KALW and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 26
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man utters a curse that comes true, a summer stint at a dinosaur quarry challenges a woman’s s...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KHNS, KSKA, KSUT and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Caroline in "Romeo and Juliet" at Great River Shakespeare Festival, Credit: Dan Norman
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a cast member of Great River Shakespeare Festival. This individual has the unique challenge of playing a...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 20:20
  • Purchases: 1
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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
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A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 20:25
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On this episode of Art Beat, we learn about the journey in creating, Lost Conquest. Lost Conquest examines the authenticity of the Kensington Runes...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 23:52
  • Purchases: 1
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The Lolligaggers Band sets the stage. And the late Robert Lavoy Finicum educates us concerning our rights...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:27:24
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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
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The Winona Municipal Band, under the direction of Myron Haug, has been a summertime tradition at Lake Park Winona Bandshell for 99 years as of 2014...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 56:39
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On this episode of, "The Live Feed" we continue our coverage of the 2014 Season with The Winona Municipal Band. The band, under the direction of My...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:37
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On this episode, we present the Winona Municipal Band Concert, recorded July 16th, 2014. The Winona Municipal Band - under the direction of Myron H...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:10
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On this episode of, "The Live Feed" we take you to the Winona Municipal Band Concert of July 9th, 2014. The Concert was performed at the Lake Park ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 55:28
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In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 59:08