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Discounts and Sales
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Generational discussion on the impact of Discount and Sale buying on our culture.

Bought by WRNC-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Civil War Reconciliation
From: With Good Reason
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For better or worse, this show is not about an end to all those re-enactments. It is a tale of post-war reconciliation between Union and Confederates.

Bought by KWIT, KRUA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Ten Cents a Dance
From: With Good Reason
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Tools
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Roy Underhill - host of PBS's Woodwrights Shop along with Steve Johnson of www.tooltimer.com discuss older and middle generation perspectives on to...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
What if the South had won the Civil War?
From: With Good Reason
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Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:39
Children Seen and Heard
From: With Good Reason
Caption: The Atcheson children, Washington, DC, Credit: Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) Courtesy: Library of Congress
Elementary school teachers may want to encourage a noisier classroom this fall. Adam Winsler’s recent research shows that 5-year-olds perform bette...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
Darwin of the Mind
From: With Good Reason
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Two interviews for the curious among us: Why we can thank the anarchist movement for an 8 hour work week , then a discussion of new insights into t...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
Interview with DIANE ACKERMAN, author of bestseller "The Zoo Keeper's Wife."
From: Out of Bounds
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
Waking Up Together
From: With Good Reason
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Zen and coupledom (and other Valentine's treats)

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2006
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 1
War Memorials: Who Controls the Past?
From: With Good Reason
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Who decides how to commemorate sites of wars and what do those monuments say about us?

  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:46
Monticello's Jewish Hero
From: With Good Reason
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The story of one man who saved Jefferson's estate from ruin and one "being" that captured authors' fancies.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
Heirs of the Fisherman
From: With Good Reason
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J. Peter Pham, a former Vatican insider, chronicles the history of the modern papacy and reveals what goes on behind closed doors when the College ...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1