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In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:22
George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:28
One of the last songs that Johnny Cash recorded before he died was calle, “There Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down).”
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 12:46
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
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 2
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Latin America has been overwhelmingly Catholic for centuries, but that's changing, and Guatemala is leading the way, as Latin America's Evangelical...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 30:31
- Purchases: 2
Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 15:46
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 01:23:22
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: :51
This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Robert Jevne offers up his version of "Winter Projects." Jevne brings a bit of a different perspective to winter tasks with his insight into dams a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 01:56
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
While visiting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, I had the good fortune to meet a Maya subsistence farmer named Bartolo. When Bartolo found out I was int...
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 05:05
This is a special musical tribute to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known as the great NINA SIMONE. This special contains some of her biggest hits.
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 55:45
- Purchases: 1
When sea creatures get sick, there's one way to find out what's wrong: perform a necropsy.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is like a republic unto itself, much like Key West, the Conch Republic. On the Scotch Bonnet Republic islanders have...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 24:36
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 23, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...
- Added: Nov 11, 2012
- Length: 05:06
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 3
Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 17:47
- Purchases: 1
In Juan’s second audio diary, he travels back to Mexico to visit his dying grandfather. This is his first time back since he immigrated to the Unit...
Bought by KSFR and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 25:51
- Purchases: 2
