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Top 100 Americans?
From: Jeff Karr
Series: The Jeff Karr Show
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What's wrong with this list?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
Glensheen murders still a mystery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Built in 1908 by Chester Congdon, the Glensheen Mansion is a lovely estate located on the shore of Lake Superior. Congdon earned his fortune throug...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 1
Gay Sensibility in Historical Preservation: Will Fellows discusses his "passion to preserve”
From: WFHB
Series: Standing Room Only
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On May 2, 2014 Will Fellows, author of Farm Boys and A Passion to Preserve, gave a presentation to an audience at the Buskirk Chumley theater. The ...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 56:41
A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Trish Kerle’ interviews author, Will Fellows, whose book, A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture, documents an American social m...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Clay Risen reads from The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for The Civil Rights Act (5/8)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Music of Noise
From: A. Randall Wenner
Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
CRACK: The Drug That Consumed the Nation's Capital
From: Kellen Quigley
Caption: Mayor Marion Barry
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 51:30
Rebuilding After Fire
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Friday morning Sept 13 2013 became a day of history for downtown Winona. Unfortunately, this was due to a fire that spread and damaged three buildi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 20:48
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery: The Rise of American Capitalism (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery: The Rise of American Capitalism (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...

Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WLIW


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
IU: No Written Contracts on University Courts Deal
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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As Bloomington officials debate this week whether to designate the University Courts neighborhood as a historic district, plans are moving forward ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:53
Murder & Memory in a New England Village: The Story of Orville Gibson
From: William Dahlberg
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On New Years Eve day of 1957, Orville Gibson, a farmer in Newbury, Vermont went out to milk his cows. He was never seen alive again. The mystery of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 30:27
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Place: Passion, Politics and Sustainability in Historic Preservation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This week on Interchange, Saving Place: Passion, Politics and Sustainability in Historic Preservation. Host Trish Kerle' speaks with Bloomington ci...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 57:49
Skyway: The True Story Of Tampa's Signature Bridge pn Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:17
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the New Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: Alfred Bundy Presents........
Caption: Leroy Jones, Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen
Coverage of the Politics that govern the County of Essex, New Jersey.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:52
A Shortcut Through 2013
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Nelson Mandela
A journey through the past twelve months, this retrospective gathers the major and minor events, the sounds, voices, music, memories, and emotional...

Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, KUNC & The Colorado Sound, North Country Public Radio, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 8
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Brown County Hour - Episode 21
From: WFHB
Series: Brown County Hour
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Hosted by Dave Seastrom and Lee Edgren. First aired Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 9 AM on WFHB.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
Brown County Hour - Episode 20
From: WFHB
Series: Brown County Hour
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Hosted by Vera Grubbs and Dave Seastrom. First aired Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 9 AM on WFHB.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
Sharpe James From Mayor to Author
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: Alfred Bundy Presents........
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In his first Book former Newark Mayor Sharpe James write about his career as the leader of New Jersey's largest City and has good things to say abo...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
WHERE WERE WE IN '63 ?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: interviewing Irving Brecher
Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 2
Cory Booker's First Meeting with President Obama as Senator
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: Now Senator Cory Booker
Short interview with former Newark Mayor now Senator from New Jersey and his first days in Office in Washington

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
"Out with the Old
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Earlier this summer the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity announced it had reached a deal to relocate its frat house. The fraternity is currently located ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
The State of Faith
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 3
The Mandela Tapes
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 36

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