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The Dating Show - Hot Air Balloon Ride and History, Caricature Artists, Italian Wedding Soup
From: Michelle Valentine
Series: The Dating Show (free, $0)
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The Dating Show - Hot Air Balloon Ride and History, Caricature Artists, Italian Wedding Soup

Bought by KXCR and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 2
Tuna became the 'go to' fish because it was cheap and plentiful. we look at the pitch for tuna.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 1
Jell-O Makes the Modern (Mountain) Woman (Gravy Ep. 34)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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Jell-O could seem like a trivial food. It’s brightly colored, nutritionally void, and, hey, it jiggles. But in Appalachia, Jell-O marked a transfor...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMMT


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 2
The Dating Show - Historic Hotel, Travel Book Authors, Single Guy, Girl on Beach
From: Michelle Valentine
Series: The Dating Show (free, $0)
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Listeners escape with Michelle Valentine to a quaint, historical Florida waterside bed & breakfast. Learn about the history of the hotel and take a...

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism (Gravy Ep. 29)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Shirley Sherrod on the porch of the antebellum mansion at Resora Plantation , Credit: Photo by Tina Antolini.
Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the cou...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WABE, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Jan 01, 2016
  • Length: 50:14
  • Purchases: 4
Historian Nathaniel Philbrick, author of "The “Mayflower," explains what really happened at that first Thanksgiving
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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From the perilous ocean crossing of the Mayflower – imagine moving 2 mph for 3,000 miles — to the shared bounty with the Indians at that first tens...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Marc Levinson, author of "The Great A&P"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Levinson, a former finance and economics editor at The Economist, discusses the compelling history of what was once the world's largest retailer.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 30:41
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love was Manufactured
From: Hold That Thought
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Historian Mark Valeri examines the truths about the first Thanksgiving and the myths of American identity we have created around the event.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 1
My Life as a Wild Turkey (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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World-renowned naturalist Joe Hutto, subject of the Emmy winning BBC documentary "My Life As a Turkey", discusses how he became a wild turkey mothe...

Bought by WCNY, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Talking Information Center, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 19
The Cajun Reconnection (Gravy Ep. 25)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: A 1936 photo of one of the first events reconnecting Cajuns and Acadians. It was taken at the Grand-Pre, the national historic site where the largest settlement of Acadians was before the expulsion of the mid 1700’s. That's Simon Thibault's great uncle, , Credit: Photo courtesy of Simon Thibault.
How is a region of the far north—Canada—intimately connected to a region 2,000 miles away in the Deep South? In this episode of Gravy, the story of...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 25:55
  • Purchases: 2
An Old Monk is dying in India!?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Old Monk Rum
The Old Monk is dying!? Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for the last 6 de...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
The Mason Jar Pickle (Gravy Ep. 24)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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They’re everywhere: in your fancy cocktail bar and your down home country restaurant. In the hands of farmer’s market shoppers and 7-Eleven Slurpee...

Bought by KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WABE


  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 25:46
  • Purchases: 3
A Salt Story: West Virginia Siblings Mine the Past to Build a Future (Gravy Ep. 22)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...

Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 6
Historic Campus Beer
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered evidence of a brewpub on the campus of America’s second-oldest college. These days, students at William and Mary...

Bought by KENW, WKCC, KPVL, WABE, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Drink Local (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A culture has grown up around brewing beer locally and at home. The brewmasters at Champion Brewing Company discuss "shower beer" and beer made wit...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, KEDT, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Drink Local (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A culture has grown up around brewing beer locally and at home. The brewmasters at Champion Brewing Company discuss "shower beer" and beer made wit...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KVSC, WKCC, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
A Charleston Feast for Reconciliation (Gravy Ep. 17)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Chef Kevin Mitchell at the Nat Fuller Feast of 2015, Credit: Photo by Jonathan Boncek
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...

Bought by KVLU, WJCT, and WABE


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
Art de Vivre (II of II)
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
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Benjamen and Mathilde continue exploring the intersection between France and China over wine. In this installment they traverse China talking with ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 2
Fried Chicken: A Complicated Comfort Food (Gravy Ep. 16)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Waiter Carriers selling fried chicken. , Credit: Photo courtesy of the town of Gordonsville, VA.
Fried chicken has both been the vehicle for the economic empowerment of a whole group of people—and the accessory to an ugly racial stereotype. How...

Bought by KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 25:51
  • Purchases: 4
Yum! Retro Candy
From: Jennifer Cecil Moore
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A little history, a lot of fun. Visit Atomic Boys - a Seattle shop specializing in nostalgic candy.

Bought by WMMT and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
A-dressing a Mystery
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Cartograph by Ruth Taylor White, for the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1930. , Credit: Via the University of Oregon’s Knight Library.
Scholar and chef Ben Davison helps the Guys answer a burning question: What’s the origin of Thousand Island dressing, anyway? This piece comes from...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 2
The history behind White Castle building #8
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
The Bakery That Naegelin Built
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Grisham Middle School 2014-15
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Youth producers from Grisham Middle School visit Naegelin's Bakery in New Braunfels, Texas, the oldest German bakery in the state.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:08
Minnesota 13's nefarious reputation
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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“Minnesota 13” is the name of a corn seed developed at the University of Minnesota to suit the shorter growing season in the upper Midwest. But dur...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:48
Break Me Off A Piece of That...
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Toward Los Angeles, Calif., by Dorothea Lange, 1937., Credit: Library of Congress
Composer Michael Levine, who wrote the long-running Kit-Kat jingle, tells host Brian Balogh what makes a jingle powerful — and catchy. Then… he off...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 10:07
  • Purchases: 1

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