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RDD: Can You Hug a Ghost?
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's our Halloween Special! Join us as we encounter the spookier side of Fort Meigs with the Garrison Ghost Walk. It's a night-time stroll through ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:17
150 Years after the Navajo Long Walk
From: Alix Blair
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"You can't heal from something unless you really honor that it happened." This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of 1868, which relea...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:35
RDD: RDD at the 577
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Founded by Virginia Secor Stranahan, The 577 Foundation is dedicated to preserving the integrity of the historic property at 577 East Front Street ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 2
88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Betty Reid Soskin
For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
8 - On The Road - Part 2
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The bike journey continues. We explore navigation.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 1
8 - On The Road - Part 1
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids begin their journey to Vandenberg on bikes. We find out about transportation

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 1
7 - Starving Times
From: FOOLY BOO
Series: Shabam!
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The kids decide to hit the road in search of food and safety. We find out how crazy our food supply is.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 32:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
"William, the Love Child"
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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The short, funny, (yet, factually accurate) life of William, the Conqueror

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 11:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
The Working Tapes: Press Agent
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Eddie Jaffee, Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 3
Listening for Our Ancestors
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Eighth Fire Starters Radio
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Guest: Sherrie Dennis speaks with us on reclaiming Indigenous familiarity.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 1
TPV03 My Throwback - Khartoum Goes Boom!
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about the British army in Africa.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
Ep 8: A Night at the Theatre
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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Taking the initiative, June and David infiltrate a society fundraiser at the American Theatre but quickly realize they are in over their heads. Wil...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
Ep 7: A Pleasant Getaway
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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June and David check in to a bed and breakfast on Chuckanut Drive that is so much more than it seems. Will they escape intact? Find out in "A Pleas...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 32:21
Ep 5: The Mt. Baker Detour
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A scenic roadtrip takes a turn for the strange and bizarre as June and David become entangled with a small rural town. Will they escape it's strang...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 26:29
Ep 4: The Graveyard Ghouls
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A case of bodysnatching leads June and David to a rather peculiar funeral home and then a peak behind the curtain of who really runs Bellingham. Wh...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 31:24
Ep 3: The Fairhaven Phantom
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A mysterious encounter in the Mason block of Fairhaven sets June and David digging through Fairhaven's sordid past. What ghastly secrets will be re...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 1: The Beast from the Bay
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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David Phillips of the Bellingham Herald gets a story of a lifetime. Western student Juniper Harper is thrust into the middle of a sinister conspira...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 2: The Sehome Scare
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A strange attack on Sehome Hill brings David Phillips and June Harper face to face with a dangerous assailant. Will they escape in time? Find out i...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 27:49
  • Purchases: 1
HumaNature: One Hour Special #3
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: a man walks from Mexico to the tip of South America with his best friend, a donkey; a man crosse...

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


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 12: Home On The Waves With A Seafaring Cowboy
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded a ship bound for Europe…along with 800 cows.

Bought by KRZA and KUER


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 2
Blues Unlimited #300 - Paul Oliver's "The Story of the Blues"
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: The cover for "The Story of the Blues," as issued in the U.S. by Columbia Records.
On this episode, we pay homage to Paul Oliver’s legendary double LP set, "The Story of the Blues." Published as a companion piece to his critically...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:59
RDD: La Grande Dame of the Arts (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Drafts Diaries first, the connections have run dry. In our last episode, our interview only gave one connection instead of the usual thr...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:11