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The End of Smallpox

From: Radio Diaries

Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO

Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Almost Astronaut

From: Joe Richman

The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

Episode 37: What Gets Told

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

Ep. 137: Midwestern Digging Tri 2021

From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country

Playing some of the great stuff I found on my recent buying trip to to Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas

Bought by KIYU-FM, KSTK, and WYAP

Ep 124: Whiskeyville

From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country

Sixteen more country and hillbilly songs from the dustiest corners of the United States. Featuring forgotten voices, songs, and labels found on 45...

Bought by KSTK and KIYU-FM

Dr. Victoria Patterson – Native American Life, Before and After Europeans

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Cultures that have no written language pass on their histories through oral traditions. The stories are the way that social values and traditions a...

Mike & Halle Brady – Life in Vladivostok, Russia

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Vladivostok, Russia, at the very eastern end of Siberia, is a city of about 800,000 people. It is the same distance north of the equator as is cent...

EP138 Excello Records' Two Slims: Slim Harpo & Lightnin' Slim

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label

WRM01 The Influential Voice of the '30s

From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute

A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today

I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)

From: Making Contact

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS

A Voicemail Valentine

From: Radio Diaries

Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful

For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR

180303 Emile Griffith, Music From Boston and Music About The Back Door

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

Episode 77: The Escape

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...

Bought by PRX Remix

The Working Tapes: Phone Operator

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

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

160917 Originators of Americana Music - Wild Jimmy Spruill and Doc Pomus

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...

Identical Strangers

From: Radio Diaries

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix

Busman's Holiday

From: Radio Diaries

The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...

Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Off-Ramp Presents: Jim Tully, father of hardboiled fiction, the "most hated man in Hollywood"

From: john rabe

Caption: Jim Tully at an MGM soundstage, Credit: MGM

Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.

The War in the Air

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

It's the 100th anniversary of World War One. CBC Radio presents The War in the Air. At the start of the war generals publicly stated their disdain ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, Marfa Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Liner Notes: Pannonica de Koenigswarter

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

Known as "Nica" or "The Baroness" Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a jazz patron who supported artists such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, bo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

JazzStories: Abbey Lincoln

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"The artists are the ones who make it possible for people to remember what the time was like, and who was there, and what we did as human beings. ...

Bought by WMOT, WHQR, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

Fidel Castro 1959: the Lost Interview

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro in 1959. Havana.

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix

The Mandela Tapes

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUHF, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WCBE and more

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