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Longtime New Yorkers recall cooking and food shopping in NYC's bygone era of milk and ice delivery men, ice boxes, horse-drawn fruit and vegetable ...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Diane... is an audio documentary that explores the world of Twin Peaks-fandom.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 14:58
Robert Jevne discusses his former love of the Chicago Cubs in a lighthearted tone and how their incessant losing seasons defeated his passion for b...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
I scream, you scream, we all scream for...gelato. The first museum dedicated to gelato has opened in Italy.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 2
What if everybody ran everywhere, and walking seemed as slow as crawling?
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Somewhere in the midwest are two of the most unnatural sounding rooms in the world, which some say were used to test the hearing of rabbits.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
While one guy tries make his mark as a man, another tries to erase the mark that represents a life of mistakes and regret, most of it spent in prison.
Bought by Aspen Public Radio and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Mitch Skinner investigates and reviews the (now-defunct) donut co-op.
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 05:28
Robert Jevne shares "Oh Christmas Tree," a lighthearted poem from the perspective of the Christmas tree itself. Through Jevne's poem, the sheer mor...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 03:18
In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 03:21
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 04:06
Lots of people talk about how addicted we are to our screens. We spend our days staring at smartphones, tablets, and computers. But the first digit...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
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
This is the true story of a woman who went hiking in the woods . . . and really, never came out.
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 03:46
The German “eiswein” tradition was created almost by accident. This sweet, powerful wine was discovered when winemakers tried to save grapes that f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 05:05
Susan Wasson was trapped in 9 to 5 jobs for decades. But after retiring, she transformed herself through a new career: making dolls out of trash.
Bought by KUT, WCAI / WNAN, and WAMC
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 3
Tiki, Hula Girl, Tagalong, Smokey, Bambi and Blondie, Dumbo, Koko, Pudin Dandridge, and Hollywood are some of the names inscribed across the grave ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 01:48
Could a pinch of salt slow down Hurricane Sandy? How much sugar is there in outer space? Why is a gibbon like an opera singer? Let us give thanks f...
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 33:00
There’s a place in San Francisco that brings together the sounds of the world. From Ethiopian Jazz to Brazilian tropicalia to Norwegian thrash meta...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 1
Do I go to a rock show, or out to the theater? Figuring out the best way to support your local arts scene can sometimes be tough. But fear not, Cul...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 04:57
This episode has NO "conventional" wisdom, but you'll hear music with more about life's realities than anything heard at both political convention...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 58:28
For the last week of December (12/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a self-proclaimed white trash musician who helpe...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of January (1/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who played auto harp and sang folksongs b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of January (1/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female R&B artist who is a triple th...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
