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We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters. And we'll hear some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those wo...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously, thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about maki...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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If pledge drives were movies, this is what the trailer would sound like
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 02:05
One of the BBC’s biggest-ever flops, soap opera ‘Eldorado’, broadcast its final episode on 9th July, 1993 - just one year after it had begun, at a ...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 09:50
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 03:27
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We don't know about you, but 2022 has been a MOOD so we're starting Halloween a little early this year. Be prepared! Starting Aug 17th, we have a s...
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- Added: Jul 13, 2022
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Interpolation in music is a simple, specific thing. Instead of sampling a piece of music, taking the actual song, Interpolation, is reperforming t...
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- Added: Jun 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth's longest lived creatures ever recorded.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2022
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There has much interest in the use of frequencies for health, healing and general feeling better. The most famous are the Solfeggio Frequencies. ...
- Added: Apr 24, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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The cast of WSU's Theater And Dance Department's presentation of "All Together Now" joins us to talk about their experience in making this producti...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 31:13
It happens now and again that a song will have its title changed after it is released and starts to become popular. The reasons why vary but colle...
- Added: Feb 06, 2022
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Temica Hunt came to StoryCorps with her mother, Neocothia Bowens-Robinson, to talk about their family’s multi-generation love of roller skating.
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- Added: Jan 04, 2022
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On today's episode of the Apple Seed, you're going to hear from the great North Carolina storyteller Donald Davis, with a story about how he got fi...
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- Added: Sep 07, 2021
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack delves into a rather seedy aspect of the Minnesota Sta...
- Added: Sep 02, 2021
- Length: 29:23
On this episode of the Apple Seed, Odds Bodkin will share an old story called The Runaway Horse, a story in which misfortune changes to good fortun...
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Julaina Glass and Beau McCall met as neighbors in a Harlem, NY brownstone. They came to StoryCorps nearly 35 years later to remember -- and laugh a...
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- Added: May 18, 2021
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We might be getting used to this socially distanced thingy, but we still miss having YOU in the live studio audience!
It's Season 9 Episode 2 of t...
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 01:47:03
Roy Clark was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 t...
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Will Rogers thought about peace often, but didn't always trust it
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: :59
Some of Will's greatest jokes about Congress
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: :59
The President is an obvious subject for Will's humor. He spoke about the office, and the men in that position, often.
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: :59
Will Rogers was a cowboy until the day he died. He visited ranches around the world to see that the cowboy way of life was still alive.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
Will Rogers proposed we could look at political change like we look at Groundhog Day.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:17
Even though he wasn't a great student, Will Rogers knew the value of a good education.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
For as much as he poked fun at those who ran the nation, it was clear that Will loved America.
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00
