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After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Meredith Axelrod
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twenti...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Gloria Vando
Mother-daughter poets, Gloria Vando and Anika Paris, read from their book, WOVEN VOICES, which includes the poem that inspired the musical drama, T...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: James Gibson
Artist JAMES GIBSON is one of the original Florida Highwaymen, a loosely-organized group of African-American painters renowned for their depictions...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
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
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:40
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
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
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 24:25
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Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
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The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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My neighbor, Euginie Bensor, shares stories about her childhood in East Baltimore.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:50
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, WNMU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Gillian Wethey McHugh
Excerpts from the oral histories collected by the Santa Fe Living Treasures' committee as part of its work honoring community elders.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 27:43
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The Olson House in Cushing Maine is the farmhouse depicted in Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World. The painting has become an icon in American art. Th...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
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Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 2
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5 Moments with vocalist and NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
Caption: Peggy and Hugh, then and now.
Peggy grew up on the Canadian prairie listening to big band on the radio. Hugh grew up in Seattle and tried to stay out of trouble from his Welsh ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 17:18
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 KZYX, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNCU, WCMU Public Radio, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The best of Rodgers and Hart's love songs as interpreted by some of the most famous American male and female vocalists.

Bought by WNMU-FM and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Photo courtesy Jim Chlebda
Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her family, left Oklahoma for Califor...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
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Some blues and lots of 1967.

Bought by KWMR-FM, KMXT, KKRN, KPVL, WXXI and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Brady Mansion, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
Tim Lannom loved big houses and historic houses. He owned multiple properties around Tulsa and spent his time restoring and renovating them with th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:10