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When Space Mountain Saved EuroDisney
From: Matt Hill
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Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:14
Hypnosis Goes Legit
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
The Exploding Whale
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 11:18
Let's Go On Strike
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:11
The Queen's Soviet Spy
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when P...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
The Exploding Whale
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 11:18
Music Archive Showcase #159 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Fred Parnes & Peter Case on Peter Case Documentary
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Peter Case
Music Specials Producer Paul Ingles talks with Fred Parnes, the director of a film documentary about the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Pet...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
National Writers Series: Ken Follett
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - We Don't Agree on America's Founding Story. Do We Need To?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Was America founded by divine intervention, or profit-seeking slaveholders, or noble men in pursuit of freedom? The angst over America's Founding s...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Black and Fine (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by WUTC, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Black and Fine (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Black and Fine (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by KCBX, KVCR, KZYX, Morehead State Public Radio, KUAC and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Black and Fine (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by KCBX, KVCR, Morehead State Public Radio, KUAC, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 8
Colette Pichon Battle on Climate Justice Reparations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Holidays at the White House
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Trees, menorahs, and hair caught on fire.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 04:29
Inauguration Day
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Pomp, circumstance and 35 words can transform a person into a president.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:31
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Victoria, TX - A Town Like Yours
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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Join host Eddie Robinson for a special edition of I SEE U, featuring award-winning director, Li Lu with her latest PBS docu-series, “A Town Called ...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, KUNM, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 5
The Democratic Party
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the party that supported slavery become the party that nominated our first African-American president?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
The Temple of Reason
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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The French government introduced a new State religion on 10th November, 1793: the ‘Cult of Reason’, which attempted to reflect the anti-clerical at...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 11:10
Roosevelt’s Panamanian Photoshoot
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Presidential diplomacy now routinely involves hundreds of trips on Air Force One – but, until Theodore Roosevelt travelled to inspect the Panama Ca...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
The Declaration Revisited: Native Americans
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The anti-Native American sentiments within the Declaration of Independence, and where those same sentiments can be found today.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 2
HARM 23-48: The Museum of Renaissance Music, 11/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, we’re visiting The Museum of Renaissance Music, or at least, listening to it. Editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard cu...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
2023-11-05 Zhuangzi: Being One With Ten Thousand Things
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What if I’m just a butterfly dreaming that I’m a philosopher?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Instant Message Murder
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Bruce Miller appeared to be the victim of a violent robbery at his salvage yard when his body was discovered on 8th November, 1999 - but he had act...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:51
Meteorite!
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 09:33

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