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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 03:38
On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with the writer/director of the upcoming Winona Christmas Radio Show. Each year Theatre du Mississippi produ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 08:34
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are preparing to celebrate that first feast shared between Native Americans and European Pilgri...
Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 5
Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Friday the Thirteenth, Blair Witch. It seems the woods make a great backdrop for scary stories, but why?...
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 21:48
- Purchases: 2
Standing at the heart of Fond Du Lac Wisconsin is the Retlaw Plaza Hotel. It was constructed in the 1920s by hotel and insurance magnate Walter Sch...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
The NM-based Red Nation led the successful action to abolish Columbus Day in Albuquerque. Lead organizers, Melanie Yazzie and Nick Estes, join GJ F...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 15:19
Kira Luna and Travis McKenzie talk about the Recuerda a Cesar Chavez March and celebration plus the events leading up to this yearly event. Intervi...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 12:03
Our Independence Day special has stories on the Fourth of July as an American High Holy Day, the faiths of our founding fathers, and Jefferson's cu...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jul 01, 2016
- Length: 52:30
- Purchases: 1
Grant Frashier attends the Memorial Day services at the Grand Rapids Calvary Cemetery, interviewing veterans and others in attendance.
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 05:55
A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.
Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this Valentine's Days Special, we'll meet Jo and Harvey. Tune in and hear how they met and married 58 years ago in California.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 06:11
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 02:27:06
- Purchases: 1
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
Tuned to Yesterday Special: New Year's of Yesteryear.
Featuring New Year's themed excerpts from the famous entertainers of radio's golden age.
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 54:26
- Purchases: 88
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
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 27:39
On this very special Halloween edition of The Live Feed, Winonan Taff Roberts takes us on a ghastly journey to main and then drops us off in Pickwi...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 49:51
History of Thanksgiving celebration (bye bye Jack-O-Lantern)...
- Added: Aug 16, 2015
- Length: 02:31:19
In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 25:20
The stories behind popular Easter traditions like the Easter Bunny and decorating eggs.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WYAP and more
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 7
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by WRVO Public Media
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 01:46
