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Weddings today do not mean what they used to, and for this very reason, people do their best to resurrect that lost meaning. In this episode, we tr...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
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Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second instal...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 24:25
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Freeman “Buzzy” Buzzell has been a barber in Madison, Maine for the past fifty-five years, and he keeps at it because he loves his customers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
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We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 13:13
Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 3
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
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Conversations about where women are (and aren't) in pop culture, from the impact of "Free to Be You and Me" to the evolution of Wonder Woman.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCPN, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:24
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The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States - author Gordon S. Wood shares his thoughts on the generations that were at the ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 45:32
Caption: Dr. Inoue and his "Shinya Scope". , Credit: Photo by Chris Inoue
Dividing cells are what make up all life. The idea of cell division was first published in 1855, but for nearly a century scientists debated, “How?...

Bought by Listenwise and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 2
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This week's episode of " What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" is a personal journey thru 4 decades of radio...as both a listener...and as a practitio...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
Caption: "Rez Life" by David Treuer
Leech Lake Indian writer, David Treuer, has a new book, “Rez Life”. The author of three novels and one collection of essays, “Rez Life” is his firs...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:40
  • Purchases: 1
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We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Jean Cinquambre feeding his cows, Credit: Addie Goss
Through much of the last century, French and Spanish Basques herded sheep, alone, in northern Wyoming's mountains. For company, they listened to a...

Bought by WMMT and KVNF


  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
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When he was a teenaged boy scout, Bill Johnson met a girl from Alaska on a westbound train. He only saw her once more. But nearly two decades later...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:20
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Monday, November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. KUNC’s Grace Hood sat down with University of Northern Colorado polit...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 1