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Learn how scientists are using social to monitor endangered monk seals and the people who see them in the wild.
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 04:25
In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 3
Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 4
A rollicking music intensive salute to the music of Chuck Berry, who passed away at the age of 90 at his home in Missouri, Saturday, March 18, 2017...
Bought by KSUT, WXXI Rochester, KGLP, KPIK-LP, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 25
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 12:24
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Retired O. Henry teacher and counselor, David Freeman, talks with the Mustangs about the middle school's gym dedication, baseball, and his current ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 04:23
Aristotle said it best: “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Whenever there is a void in our lives we fill it, consciously or otherwise. Too often, people tr...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 26:45
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire.
Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
Jennifer Kingsley returns to the Arctic almost every year. She has taken some long journeys across the north by canoe, but these days she travels a...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 1
2015 marks the 100th anniversary for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum is well known for its free admission. But it wasn't always that ...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
The third Simmer episode features the first part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories" introduced by anecdotes about democracy from Seidl's ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Warning: Do not listen on an empty stomach! In this story Amanda and her mom talk about you guessed it! Enchiladas! Amanda's mom, learned to make t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:50
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
In this short piece, Miguel reminisces about watching the 2010 soccer world cup on a day that his mom was off from work-something that doesn't happ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 02:21
A young Minneapolis historian—Stewart Van Cleeve —wrote “Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota.” He also created an iPhone and Android...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:02
A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 03:26
Almost 100 years ago, a rogue geologist named Alfred Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift. It didn't matter that he was right. He was l...
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 57:20
- Purchases: 2
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 07:59
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.
Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 27:44
- Purchases: 5
Let's Travel! Radio explores how living, studying, teaching, praying
in other cultures can expand not only one's own horizons but may
also lead to ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 02:04:14
Biologists Carrie Albertin and Judit Pungor join us to discuss a strange and wonderful animal, the octopus.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP
- Added: Aug 22, 2013
- Length: 25:57
- Purchases: 3
A look into a new state-of-the-art financial literacy program for teens.
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 06:42
For my sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience. And recently she tried to give them up.
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
In this edition of WTIP's ongoing historical series, Moments in Time, producer Carah Thomas learns about an ancient style of timber framing from so...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 1
