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Set Sail on a Musical Voyage through History.

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
Caption: Trio Solisti
Chamber Music from Spain, Argentina, and Mexico from the early and mid 20th century

  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption:  Chicago Kent College of Law indoor baseball player, M. Ryan, 1910, Credit: Library of Congress
Just in time for March Madness, we're taking on the history of college sports. It's a subject that has provided some especially heated controversie...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Humans have wanted to know tomorrow's weather for as long as there have been todays. Only in the last few centuries, however, have we begun making...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: The Gatling Gun patent drawing (1865). The gun was patented on May 9, 1865, and was officially adopted by the U.S. Army on August 21, 1866. Courtesy of the National Archives.
America’s use of targeted drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere has raised questions about what is — and is not — an appropriate way to wage war....

Bought by WRPI, WOUB, KREV-LP, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, the Spanish Mozart
Orchestral and choral music by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, the Spanish Mozart.

Bought by KFOK-LP and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jason MacLean joined us to discuss this Hebbian plasticity and the past, present, and future of research on neuronal networks.

Bought by KMXT, WRNC-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Miff Mole & Red Nichols
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:51
Caption: Leslie M.M. Blume, Credit: photo by Billy Farrell
Try to imagine drinking your way through this book! That’s what author Leslie M. M. Blume has done in order to provide recipes for 144 cocktails.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ranson Rideout, Credit: J.R. Warmkessel
Ransom tells us about being sworn in by James Stewart and his early days of flying

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: Kas Osterbuhr
Kas tells us about the US Airway's Flight 1549 Hudson River accident, how the system worked when it was most needed.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:28
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Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Neil Brooks, Credit: J.R. Warmkessel
Neil Books tells is about his time flying a 727.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
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Cindy Davis talks about life before and after Title IX in Southern Minnesota.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
Caption: Golden Holocaust cover, Credit: jacket design by Jackie Drooker
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:52
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Alelia Bundles on her great-great grandmothers transformation into an entrepreneur and social activist-...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
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The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 16:26
Caption: Collier's Magazine Cover, 1954, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
This week on BackStory, we tackle extreme weather: how we've tried to predict it, control it, make sense of it. Along the way, we discover that ou...

Bought by KAZU, 90.5 WSNC, KREV-LP, and WRPI


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: John T. Scopes, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
The "Scopes Monkey Trial" has come to symbolize the fundamental conflict between science and religion... but are the two necessarily opposed?

Bought by WFIU, WRPI, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mothers' Memorial, Credit: Library of Congress
In this Memorial Day episode of BackStory, we take on national remembrance. By looking at some of our country’s most iconic monuments, we ask what—...

Bought by WCSU-FM, WFPL News, WUIS, WRFA-LP, WCPN and more


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Cheese & Culture
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheese-maker throughout world history and by und...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mathew Barrett Gross
In the past dozen years, from Y2K to 2012, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 perce...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:59