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One question. Four choices. One answer. You now know in 90 seconds! Set of 4
- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 05:05
One question. Four choices. One answer. You now know in 90 seconds! Set of 4.
- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 05:26
Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word....
Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 20
On this episode of Eat Your Heartland Out, we visit with writer and journalist Nina Mookerjee Furstenau. Nina is the author of Biting Through the ...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 1
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a f...
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Songs about disasters in the mines. Featuring a few different mine disasters and talk about them paired with songs about them.
- Added: Jan 27, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 27:08
What kind of book do people ask for most often in prison? Romance Novels? No. The Bible? No. The most requested books by far are . . . dictionarie...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Twice a day the River Thames recedes, revealing a muddy shoreline. Hobbyists known as mudlarks stroll the surface searching for objects that have f...
- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic...
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton's best-known novel. Today the annual ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem "Beowulf" in high school. But what if you could actually hear "Beowulf" in the English of today? The...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 1
What's it like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada? You'll end up with sore muscles and blisters, and great stories t...
Bought by KUAT, WYAP, WSLR, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Dec 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
Astronauts returning from space say they experience what's called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our n...
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
If you have ever wanted to learn more about the food and culture of the Ozarks, today’s show is for you. We are joined by Rob Connoley, founder of ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 2
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...
- Added: Dec 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Some TV commercials launch catchphrases that stick around long after the original ads. The exclamation Good stuff, Maynard! is still a compliment a...
- Added: Nov 29, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Asthenosphere, a geologist's term for the molten layer beneath the earth's crust, sparks a journey that stretches all the way from ancient Greece t...
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
A collection of lost American music on 45 rpm discs. You are guaranteed to hear something you've never heard before.
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
A documentary film called My Beautiful Stutter" follows youngsters at a summer camp specifically for stutterers. It's a place for finding acceptanc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
We use the term Milky Way for that glowing arc across the sky. But how people picture it varies from culture to culture. In Sweden, that starry ban...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In our introductory episode, we set the stage by discussing the people, places and products of the midwest that inform the region's foodways. Featu...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 2
In the 15th century, the word respair meant "to have hope again." Although this word fell out of use, it's among dozens collected in a new book of...
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
