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At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
At the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, two dozen residents of North Beach come on a recent Tuesday night to hear from neighbors who have experi...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 08:11
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious discusses the contradictions in U.S. nuclear weapons policy with author and professor Dr. Seyom Brown, who is currently an adjunct se...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 29:00
We talk about the Pope and his recent visit to Israel. We include informative Middle-Eastern political evaluation and discussion.
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 53:53
Protests against the tech industry’s impact on housing have grown in number and variety. They’ve been personal, with individual tech executives bei...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 05:23
It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 04:54
Bestselling author Craig Nelson provides an in depth examination of the history of the Atomic age from x-rays to the 2011 meltdown in Japan.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
What's the answer?
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 03:25
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh sits down with historian Daniel Feller, to talk about Jacksonian America and the so-called “humanitarian” claims made on both sid...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Newark, and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 10:05
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 4
Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 06:20
Good cookbooks nourish us beyond recipes for appetizers through dessert. Case in point: “Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice,” by the Se...
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 58:24
Many American expats gathered in Brussels on 4th July this year to celebrate American Independence Day. Reporter, Alison Turner, joined the celebr...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 09:53
Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The history and current status of the California State Park System is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Frank Graha...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
The Oakland Unified School District is in debt to the state. It owes $6 million a year until 2026 and needs every dollar it can save. But over the ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 08:09
Generational discussion on the impact of migration
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
As we enter into the new year, our thoughts turn to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing proposals and plans for future actions on behalf o...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 04:35
Radio Curious discusses time, as we know it, with Clark Blaise, author of "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time."
- Added: Dec 26, 2011
- Length: 29:01
