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His music was an amalgam of classical music, jazz, R&B, doowop, poetry and—sometimes—just plain noise. And Frank Zappa the man had even more to him...
Bought by WYSO, WRGY, KPVL, Prairie Public, WOUB and more
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 56:30
John Irving reads from and talks about his novel "In One Person," and sits down with Virginia Prescott about writing, sex, and why he'd never becom...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 51:30
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 18:01
This week, correspondent Teresa Chin takes us on a tour beneath the Monterey Bay to explore the sights and creatures of the deep. Cruise a shipwrec...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 12:54
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 13:09
International bestselling author and thriller writer Lee Child talks about his career after being run out of television and the secret to writing s...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 59:01
In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...
Bought by The Story, Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 5
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Hyman Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. Well, he did as soon as he found something to write with as we see i...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
There are several theories as to what happened to the people of The Roanoke Colony. We explore one theory in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars, the residents of Hartlepool in England once put what they thought was a French spy on trial. We take...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. We see exactly how far ahead of his time John Montagu was in...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Fourteen year old, Philo T. Farnsworth, continues his work on the electric television. Apparently there was some trouble with some of the early mod...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
We’re very lucky that Philo T. Farnsworth, as a teenager, didn’t have any distractions like television to keep him from inventing…well…television. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
