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Fifteen-year-old Josh's mom was having trouble having a baby, so she headed down to Mexico for an "operation" from a renowned psychic surgeon.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 06:23
Mikki Lunda and Hana Zimorino are easy to spot walking down the street. The ladies are sharp dressers rarely caught without lipstick and their sign...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 07:22
A personal story from a growing demographic
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 15:09
On a Sunday in April, cheery faces populate the groundbreaking of a new church construction project in South Minneapolis. Almost a year earlier, th...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 05:08
"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."
Bought by WAMC and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 2
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
The funny and touching love story of Konstantine and Salina. They met in 1st grade, and parted ways in 8th grade - just another childhood crush. Bu...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 28:08
During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 03:54
The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 04:39
In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...
- Added: Nov 11, 2012
- Length: 05:06
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 13:09
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 10:28
Join hosts Devon and Cal for this first episode that follows the emotional journey of Female-to-Male transsexual Kyle Smith and his mother, Leslie,...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 20:30
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
It's that time again. Every year since 2009, Minneapolis-based Queer Bike Gang has hosted the LGBTQA-themed alley-cat bike race, Cirque du So Gay. ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 12:25
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 08:38
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
The University of Alabama was one of the last schools to integrate it's football team. in 1967, five African American men tried to change that.
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 11:53
Each year, stroke affects approximately 120,000 women under the age of 45. For many young women, the idea of having a stroke at such a young age se...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:14
In 2007 the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
researched why people in Minnesota were spending less time outdoors.
They found three problem...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Anyone who has ever spent time in a greasy spoon diner knows that feeling. It's a mixture of good food, conversation, and that certain... something...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:15
With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...
Bought by The Story, KUT, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 3
