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April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 59:47
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:56
The first Finnish immigrants to arrive in Minnesota settled here sometime around the middle of the 19th century and the close of the Civil War. Min...
Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and KFAI
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 2
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
Also available...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Jan (Yahn) Gadzo (God-zoh) left his home in Slovakia in 1969 and landed in the Iron Range town of Chisholm.
Every year Jan and his family observe ...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 20:53
This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 08:53
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...
- Added: Dec 18, 2011
- Length: 14:19
A married Jewish couple are abruptly separated by the KGB when the husband is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike double
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 13:47
A married Jewish couple are abruptly separated by the KGB when the husband is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike double
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 14:24
This touching dramatised reconstruction, is based on the extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian Jews living in Stalin’s Russia.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 14:53
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
This program evokes the exciting folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and the role Seeger played in it.
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KISU, Northstate Public Radio, KZYX, WJFF and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 48:42
- Purchases: 11
Program I: Origins
How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KHNS, KISU, KGNU, Northstate Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 52:40
- Purchases: 14
One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Meet Jason Price - musical treasure hunter. He travels around North America appraising antique violins, cellos & bows. People line up for his sessi...
Bought by Public Radio Remix and KLCC
- Added: Aug 23, 2010
- Length: 08:36
- Purchases: 2
An audio collage of the struggle for civil rights, focusing on the role of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Bought by Prairie Public, WESM 91.3 FM, Prairie Public, and KVMR
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 01:30:13
- Purchases: 4
NEA Jazz Master Jim Hall on Spiritual Awakening; Technique vs. Ideas; Bill Kirchner; Nat Hentoff; Pat Metheny; and Meeting Sonny Rollins
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 08:28
NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller on Tales of a Nun, The Tombone, Defining his Sound, "A Moment's Notice" and European Circus.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 08:59
Excerpts of KUOW-FM's live coverage of the WTO demonstrations.
- Added: Sep 28, 2009
- Length: 16:08
Branford Marsalis explains how NEA Jazz Master Herbie Hancock's "headhunters" created shockwaves in the Jazz Community.
- Added: Sep 10, 2009
- Length: :59
Washington Monthly's Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis report on the Mexican-American Borderlands in this five-part series.
- Added: Jul 03, 2009
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
A non-narrated portrait of a small group of Civil War buffs re-dedicating a Union veteran's grave in Oregon and reflecting on when our nation, as w...
Bought by KISU, WAMC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, The Story, KRUA and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2009
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 7
The piece tells the history of the rapid-running fishing boat that was designed and built along the shores of the Mckenzie River in Oregon.
- Added: Jun 10, 2009
- Length: 08:12
