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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:03:24
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
Sixteen more forgotten gems from the history of American music.
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
Nineteen country tracks from the Dollar Country vaults for this week's episode.
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
Sixteen more country tunes forgotten to history.
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
An episode I've been setting things aside for, this one is ALL country gospel tunes!
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 58:00
Another episode of all 78 rpm shellac discs.
- Added: Sep 22, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.
- Added: Sep 23, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
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
Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:08:20
Would you fall off a horse eight times in one weekend? And not get paid for it? KFAI’s Emily Bright reports on one man who lives to be part of a re...
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 2
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Wonder Woman first hit the comic book page over 70 years ago. We look at how she's changed at what she means today.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 39:32
- Purchases: 1
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
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
Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 57:44
