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From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.

Post-Roe America: 2. The Canary

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP

The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut

Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #45: The Passion of Chris Strachwitz

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

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

The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

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

The Big Pond #38: Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #29: Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR

Stonewall 50: The Legacy of the Uprising that led to the Gay Rights Movement

From: WFUV

Caption: June 2019 Pride Month marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. In "Stonewall 50" WFUV News explores the events leading up to the night of June 28, 1969 and the past five decades of the LGBTQIA+ movement., Credit: Photos: AP Images, Creative Commons; Collage: Valeria Villarroel

The Gay Liberation Movement is widely recognized as having begun nearly fifty years ago in New York City. On June 28, 1969, patrons at a gay bar ca...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WHFR and more

The Big Pond #20: Hessian Barracks in Maryland

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

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...

The Big Pond #19: German Bread – A Nourishing Craft

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With its diversity of more than 3,000 varieties the Germans are world champions of bread. Since ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #13: German-style Wines in the US

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

Reaching the High School Girls Who Didn’t See Themselves in Tech

From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Among the various STEM education organizations that have developed throughout the last several years, there is ChickTech. The local Austin chapter ...

Smackdown: City Hall vs Big Oil

From: Claire Schoen

Richmond California is a working class town that grew up in the shadow of a Chevron refinery. The company ran both the economy – and the local gove...

Bought by KUOW, KUNM, WFAE, WAMU, WUTC and more

You Are How You Sound

From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language

How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA

Linguistic Insights

From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language

In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix

The Life and Music of Thomas Talbert with Richard Hammergren, Part 1

From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know

Today on Don't Cha Know - we explore the life of Thomas Talbert with the help of Winona State University professor and professional musician Richar...

Donald Jeffrey Herbert (Mr. Wizard), June 13, 2007

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

If his name doesn't ring a bell, it's because we knew him ... millions of television viewers ... from the 1950s all the way through to the Nickelod...

Big Time Baseball in a Small Texas Town

From: Marfa Public Radio

The real life version of "Field Of Dreams" takes place in Alpine, Texas in the 1940s and 50s. This is a story about a man, his baseball field and ...

Bought by KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, KMXT, and KUT

Minnie's Uptown Restaurant

From: Stephen Shealy

Southern hospitality and down-home Southern cuisine meet to create a dining experience that can only be found on the corner of 1st Ave. and 8th St....