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The Monroe Doctrine on its 200th birthday. Messy American politics in 1823, messy American politics in 2023. And, Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Tonle ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2023
- Length: 58:39
Recollections of what brought people joy when they were 18. Composed in an Exquisite Corpse style. Produced in celebration of the 18th birthday of ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 08:14
"Gentlemen!" yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, "All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on World Footprints we celebrate Canada’s Francophone roots in the Quebec region as we walk in the footsteps of history at the New France Fes...
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 59:55
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with an ax at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Can a century-old brutal murder save t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 08:10
- Purchases: 1
A former airline employee discusses the aftereffects of knowing he checked two 9/11 hijackers onto the plane that was flown into the Pentagon.
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Host Bob Kustra and Goldstone discuss the book, which looks at the battle to control the skies during the early days of aviation.
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 30:15
- Purchases: 1
Celebrate and relive the MLK Memorial dedications as we remember the life, legacy and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with celebrity and news...
- Added: Jan 17, 2016
- Length: 59:55
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Grant Frashier attends the beacon lighting ceremony and remembrance of the Edmund Fitzgerald at Split Rock Lighthouse in Duluth, MN.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
If the United States were embroiled in a third world war and the American public learned that Barack Obama were taking eight days off in the middle...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 3
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
A hand-drawn map on a dining room table in a Colorado home was the main reason the spectacular Maroon-Bells Snowmass Wilderness was one of the firs...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 2
The Bahamas is composed of more than 700 islands and is the
nearest resort destination to the U.S. mainland after Cuba.
It has a varied history.
- Added: Jun 02, 2014
- Length: 13:41
This year will be the 200th anniversary of the Casselman River Bridge, which was the nation's longest stone arch bridge at the time it was built as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 04:54
America's first transnational highway - the Lincoln Highway - was dedicated 100 years ago this October. In this hour, we mark the Highway's centenn...
Bought by WVPE, Wyoming Public Radio, NPR Illinois, Iowa Public Radio, and KISU
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 5
Tucked along the banks of St. Croix River just north of Stillwater, Minnesota, Arcola Mills is a serene spot with a long history. From Native and E...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 27:57
- Purchases: 4
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group o...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 03:27
Portraits of People and Places Along Today's
- Added: Aug 05, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
This week on the Score we Remember the Titanic.
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
We conclude this week's show on Scotland with special guest Gillian Swan, ancestral marketing manager of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum; Fiona S...
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 09:39
We continue this week's show on Scotland with guests Fiona Stwardt, Scotland's director of communications in the U.S.; and fashion designer Charlie...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 11:47
Join us for this week's show on the ancient land of Scotland, wish special guest Fiona Stewardt, Scotland's director of communications in the U.S..
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 10:23
