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With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
My years of marriage have taught me that raising kids with another person is rarely a smooth ride. Any two adults bring very different upbringings...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:29
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s take on toddlers is right on: “A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender but you don’t have a top for it.”
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:43
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In March 2014 it is L...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In March 2014 it is L...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In March 2014 it is L...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In March 2014 it is L...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:31
Stories about people coming out as gay or lesbian are more and more common. But usually it’s young people coming out to parents or friends. Allison...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXDU
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 2
The middle-age woman spoke tentatively as she reached for words to express her meaning. She was raised in the south, the great-grandchild of slave...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:24
I love words. A well-turned phrase gives me goose bumps. Words play a significant role in my life. But sometimes in the life of a family, words ...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 02:29
This episode is about "Therapy Dogs in the Courtroom" but it’s much more than that. It’s the story of changing the system from within, leveling the...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 49:25
- Purchases: 1
BackStory takes on the history of childhood in America. Have children shared a common core experience across American history? Or has the nature o...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WEZU
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Depicting a thunderstorm in music was one of Rossini's specialties. Here are some more examples of musical thunderstorms.
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Usually, an overture is a piece of music played at the beginning of a play, opera or ballet in order to set the mood. But there are also other kind...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
From: WGUC/ WVXU
The William Tell Overture was written to open an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The opera is based on a legend about the Swiss hero William Tell. Acco...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 3
Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was born in 1792 and died in 1868, so you might think that he celebrated 76 birthdays. But Rossini was born in a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
A new baby monitor has more bells and whistles than ever before. This monitor maintains information on everything about a baby: the temperature i...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:20
Your day is too full already with too many places to be. As you race from one point to the next, you glance down at your fuel gauge and discover y...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:10
After the holiday hustle and bustle, an empty datebook can seem anticlimactic. But in my estimation, those empty calendar pages feel like a benedic...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:24
From Los Angeles to Chicago, folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld finds Amtrak's Train #4, the Southwest Chief, full of adventure...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 11, 2014
- Length: 08:30
- Purchases: 2
What are some of the steps that same-sex couples take in order to create a family?
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 05:00
Lt. Kijé is the story of an imaginary soldier, created when the Russian Tsar misread a smudged name on a list of his men.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 4
In music, a suite is a specific collection of pieces. Here are some examples of various kinds of musical suites.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Prokofiev was not the only classical composer to paint a musical portrait of a sleigh ride on a snowy day. Listen as we take you through several ot...
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
