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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
Mitch Skinner examines the career of rapper extraordinaire Lil B.
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 04:13
Episode 3 - 2/23/13 - What would happen if someone stole the One True Kilogram? How would the world go about replacing – or displacing – it? Today,...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 12:52
Whether you believe in 'an eye for an eye', or 'turning the other cheek' there's musical recourse just for you--so don't get mad--get even--and be ...
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 21:19
Big Pharma and Medical Insurance and their influence on the sick (and not so sick).
- Added: Jan 21, 2013
- Length: 05:48
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
This folktale celebrates the dark stretch of the year with musical customs meant to brighten winter's darkest hours.
Bought by WFYI
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
A former corporate speechwriter, Joe Wenke is the owner of a leading event marketing company. With his new book, he’s going to have a few more inte...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 15:15
As they say in many a folk world, winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. In this episode of Folktales, Julia Meek tracks this...
Bought by WFYI
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present.
Second half: excerpts from...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 57:19
Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?
Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 3
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 04:03
Dear Santa, I am so cool. This year I need the hippest music on the planet. Here's hoping the mainstream doesn't flow all the way to the North Po...
Bought by KUCB, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 4
KVSC presents the Granite City Radio Theatre in partnership with the Pioneer Place Theatre Company in St. Cloud. The Granite City Radio Theatre is ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 45:12
- Purchases: 1
This episode of Folktales paves the way to enlightenment with musical offerings of encouragement from around the world.
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 01:00:00
Charlie Drinkwater is in trouble. Not he’s done anything wrong. He’s just morphing into a mutant dinosaur.
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 19:01
Another finger-snappin', hip-shakin' stew of monster melodies for a space age Halloween, including tunes by Zacherley, the Rigormoticians, Spike Jo...
Bought by KSRQ, Prairie Public, and KSQM 91.5 FM
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 3
"Libraries must have been very noisy places, with everyone clacking away at their typewriter" thought one student recently. True story. Tom and Ro...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:59
Today's text messages and yesterday's telegrams might just be pretty much the same thing, only very different. Confused? So are Tom and Ron!
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:49
Have astronauts - once futuristic heroes - become a ho-hum thing of the past? Have they always existed in some form? Ron and Tom share their thoug...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:47
It is our patriotic duty to protect the God-given right to drink a soda of any size of our choosing.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 01:15
Aaron Sorkin presents "Drive-Thru," the rambling, over-thought story of your first summer job.
- Added: Aug 08, 2012
- Length: 03:11
For the second week of March (3/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a preacher’s son who helped launch a rock star’s c...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of September (9/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who straddled both political and cul...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
