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BackStory hears from Kembrew McLeod – journalist, professor, and intellectual property “prankster” – on how a system meant to encourage innovation ...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Winona Central Lutheran's Organ
Erik Floan, Director of Worship Music & Arts at Central Lutheran in Winona stops by to talk about the "World Organ Day Concert" taking place May 5t...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:19
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Gridlock, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
On this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed, and Peter take an in-depth look at stalemate in American history. Are there other times when the system ha...

Bought by KFOK-LP, WFPL News, WOUB, and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare Jazz 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM recordings of early, forgotten Jazz pioneers.

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Bev remastered 1927 Rhapsody in Blue 78., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Joe Bev hosts an hour of remastered 78s records, including George Gershwin with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra conducted by Nat Shilkret “Rhapsody in ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
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
Caption: Everybody is watching...and listening!, Credit: C. Warren with Whitehouse.gov photos
For Presidents' Day Weekend and Washington's Birthday. A chronological trip through 13 U.S. Presidencies from FDR to Obama, plus Washington and Je...

Bought by KHEN-LP, Nevada Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAWC, WHRV and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Did the Mayans really think they pinpointed the End Day? Well they can just stand in line. Almost from the beginning humans have been trying to co...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of "Don't Cha Know" Theatre du Mississippi's Paul Sannerud and Daniel Munson stop by to discuss the upcoming production "The Winona...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 10:46
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
What kind of power did ancient Athenians have over elected officials? Eligible voters screened candidates for several positions before they took th...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: The Missourians
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bessie Smith
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
Caption: Clarence Williams
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Edythe Turnham & her Band
The early history of  jazz often leaves out some very talented musicians simply because they didn’t move to Chicago or New York.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:59