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Another week's worth of country hits and misses from the Dollar Country archives. If you've heard all of these before then I owe you a coke.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 5
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
HOUR ONE: "Journeys Through Gender" - Once upon a time there were two genders. He and She. Not anymore. So what are your pronouns? HOUR TWO: "The...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
This week's episode is all Cajun music! Pull out your cajun french dictionary and give it a listen.
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Eighteen more widely unknown country tunes from the history of the genre.
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
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
HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Up All Night" - On...
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
A look at what happened in Dollar Country and some of my favorite finds of the year.
Bought by Radio Bristol, KSTK, KHNS, and KIYU-FM
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
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
“Discovering Mars” is the new chronicle of humanity’s long relationship with the Red Planet, assembled by space historian William Sheehan and Mars ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 11
Sixteen more forgotten gems from the history of American music.
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Eighteen more hard to find country tracks from the forgotten history of country music.
- Added: Dec 15, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
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
All country Christmas songs this week on Dollar Country.
- Added: Dec 07, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Nineteen country tracks from the Dollar Country vaults for this week's episode.
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
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
