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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:23:30
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Is a person with one black parent and one white parent black or white? Or neither? Can a person choose what race to live as, or does the world forc...

Bought by WNJR and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 00:53:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Is the right to privacy – to be left alone and to control one’s personal information to oneself – really a right?

Bought by WNJR and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 00:53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
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Oscar Rodriguez and René Ayala look at how the subtlest forms of bullying serve as cultural cues for peer intervention in a majority-Latino high sc...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:50
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Is learning about bullying helpful?

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:27
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Electricity, pumps & shunts: A forensic pathologist on life.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:23
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Find out how Europe's largest children's hospital is experimenting with the use of birdsong.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:09
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Can philosophy and fiction both aim at universal truths of human existence?

Bought by WRNC-LP, WNJR, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Satchmo in 1960., Credit: Herb Snitzer
This week on the show, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Lo...

Bought by WCMU Public Radio, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KPVL, and WEMU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Why is death such a difficult subject to talk about? From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our complex relationship with death...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:30:30
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:55
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Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology. [27:29]

  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 00:27:29
Caption: Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart stars in Ibsen's classic about marriage and the changing role of women.

Bought by KUNM, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, KKRN, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 8
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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: 00:04:35
Caption: Composer, sax titan, and jazz icon John Coltrane.
This week on the show we go in search of the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's mos...

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, WCMU Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, KPVL, and WEMU


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
In-depth documentary on the Story of Black America - from slavery to the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:17:23
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Twin Cities based folk musician and community activist Larry Long joins Travis Ryder on Centerstage Minnesota. In the Eighties, he worked with kids...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Roby Lakatos at SMF 2010, Credit: Frank Stewart
Tune in to this episode for a 2010 SMF performance by the unmistakable multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Shannon Whitworth.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
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Katie Marshall and Lisa Stauffer join Travis Ryder to preview the exhibitions appearing this month at MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. The mai...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 00:11:52
Caption: Aaron Brown
Between You and Me is our weekly mix of conversation and music.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:14
Caption: The Skier, the Buddha, and Papa, Credit: Mark Munger
After twenty years of doing it, Mark Munger conveys this writer's "personification of pattern" as he recites this recent essay about his morning wr...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 00:09:28
Caption: Comedian and Author Nathan Timmer
On Saturday, November 19th 2011, it was time for comedy in Winona. The feautre comedian writes for Rooftop Comedy, has performed for the troops ove...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:47:47
Caption: Michelle Boisseau
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
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The ancients believed in an enchanted universe, suffused with meaning and purpose – can we?

Bought by WNJR, KUMD, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:53:52
  • Purchases: 3