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901: Tasting the past / 902: When mountains are gods, 5/25/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Tasting the past" - What food reminds you of a certain time - or maybe a particular person - in your life? This hour, we’ll meet kitchen...

Journey's End

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

The classic World War I story about life in the trenches

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KKRN, KFCF FM, KUOW and more

Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House

This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

Bought by KMUN

Nuts and Bolts

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

How frequently do you think about fasteners like screws and bolts? Probably not very often. But some of them a storied history, dating back to Egyp...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KZUM, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more

895: Reframing the portrait / 896: Hope: Are we really doomed?, 5/4/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Reframing the portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...

Shelf Discovery: Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin two flower-selling sisters as they search for a killer in Chinatown in Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee.

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Exactly Who We Are: The Portraiture of Jana Marcus

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

What happens when a photographer, a mature woman herself, welcomes older women into her studio to get the full glamour treatment? In this episode o...

Who Invented Mother's Day? Not Hallmark or the Florist Society

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

893: Giving up / 894: Hope: How do you make it?, 4/27/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Giving up" - Our lives are full of lists and responsibilities. Things to do, things to be. Maybe it's time to let go and give something ...

Candice Millard on Good Citizen

From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V

Candice Millard tells intimate stories of great leaders, digging into their most vulnerable moments to reveal their true character. She is the auth...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Lost Oldies of the '80s & '90s, New Indie Music!

From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour

It's a wacky selection of tunes from decades past – Todd Rundgren just wants to bang on the drum all day, the California Raisins are sweet and deli...

Lost Oldies of the '60s & '70s, New Indie Music!

From: The Goober Hour
Series: The Goober Hour

We've got some forgotten musical gems today from the likes of The Pointer Sisters, Wings, Tom Jones, The Mills Brothers, Sparks... plus new tunes b...

The Origins of Zionism

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers

In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer

I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Caption: Oscar Nunez and Sarah Drew. , Credit: Photo by Matt Petit

Sarah Drew and Oscar Nuñez channel their inner Lucy and Desi.

Bought by KCHW, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KFCF FM and more

Journal of Discovery

From: KALW

Caption: "Dispatches" Producer Eric Wayne and Host Sandip Roy enjoy a moment in San Francisco, Credit: Sandip Roy

Sandip began his Dispatches from Kolkata thinking he would tell listeners in the Bay Area stories from India to show that we were ultimately all co...

With fake weapons and phony uniforms, they helped win WWII. Now, they're finally getting medals.

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: A soldier sits next to a fake inflatable tank used by the U.S. Army during World War II. The inflatables and other decoys were deployed in Europe to fool enemy troops about the positions and movements of real Army units., Credit: Ghost Army Legacy Project

The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations.

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, KUT, and WHRV

Incident at Vichy/The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

A dark tale from Arthur Miller, plus a docudrama about the brilliant, controversial physicist

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more

EE 24-07: Author Jori Lewis on the natural and human history of the peanut , 2/16/2024

From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats

While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

The Man in the President's Limo

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB

Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW

An Economy of Our Own with Rickey Gard Diamond

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

In this episode of The Babblery, we talk about the origin of the disconnect between economic indicators and our household realities. Women operate ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF

Tech in Check

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Worried that AI will replace you? It may not seem like the Hollywood writers’ strike has anything in common with the Luddite rebellion in England i...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more

Civics 101: How Should We Teach Civics?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Civics and social studies education are getting a lot of attention these days. How do we teach about our democracy?

"Agent Heine: The Man from the Stars", by Edgar Wallace

From: Michael Henrik Wynn

Michael Henrik Wynn (me) reads a very funny first world war satire by Edgar Wallace, the man who created King Kong.

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