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Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist and Retired California Supreme Court Lawyer Michael Nava
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pride Month begins with former California Supreme Court attorney, Michael Nava. The author of now ten novels in the Henry Rios mystery series, seve...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ed Stone and Forty Years of Voyager in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Voyager image of Jupiter's moon Io taken as the volcano called Loki erupted., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
It is most space fans’ favorite planetary science mission, and with good reason. We visit with the man who has been in charge of Voyager mission sc...

Bought by WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Nazis in Space? Rod Pyle’s Amazing Stories of the Space Age
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Declassified artist's concept of the 1960s Manned Orbiting Laboratory, Credit: National Reconnaissance Office
Rod Pyle reveals bizarre yet fascinating space projects of the past in his new book. Pyle also exposes previously classified information about mis...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
World Histories of Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Two history books are profiled that both provide a timeline of history for peace periods, peace leaders, key philosophers, important turning points...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 3
Rogue Traders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Scott E.D. Skyrm
When one of Wall Streets biggest scams was revealed in a segment on 60 Minutes, viewers were outraged. Front Running. Although it is legal, it’s, a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of The Past: Part Three
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we feature Part 4 of The Winona County Historical Society's "Voices of the Past" Cemetery Walk" This years theme...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Minnesota Author, Tom Berg
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of, Art Beat - we visit with an individual who penned a book about Minnesota politics during the span of 1968 through 1978. The boo...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota: An interview with Brian Laidlaw, an essay from Alison Scott, and a review a review of the Trampled By Turtles and Actual Wolf concert in Grand Rapids by Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Brian Laidlaw, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek
Brian Laidlaw is a singer / songwriter out of the Twin Cities. For the past year he's been working on a project inspired by Bob Dylan, and made pos...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota: Scott Macdonald and Rob Graber of Arcwelder join Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Arcwelder, Credit: Jesse Keenan
This week's feature is a conversation Charlie Pulkrabek recently had with two members of the mainstay Twin Cities punk/hard rock band Arcwelder, Sc...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Magna Carta Online
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.

Bought by WJCT and WMNR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of MN Author Eric Dregni
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we examine the author. MN author Eric Dregni is here to talk about his new book "Vikings in the Attic: In search of Nordic Americ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 3
A Symphony of Hopes and Dreams
From: With Good Reason
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A recent classical music piece was inspired by the poetry written by children in Birmingham, AL, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KRPS, WNMU-FM, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Why Thanksgiving?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Why is it that Thanksgiving is celebrated almost exclusively in the United States and Canada. How has it been celebrated and how is it celebrated now?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRZA, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 6
Girl with a Red Hat: The Secret Genius of the Vermeer Family
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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The groundbreaking discovery of an unknown master painter and perhaps one of the greatest women in art.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
1968
From: Talking History
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Our interview features Mark Kurlansky who joins host Bryan Le Beau to discuss just what made 1968 "the year that rocked the world," and Robert Bren...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:00