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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Kelley Libby attended the first le...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Producer Kelley Libby attended the...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:05
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A Christmas tale for the holidays

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
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In this short documentary, folk musician and historian Tom Naples walks us through the dust bowl and tunes us into archival recordings and oral hi...

Bought by Listen Edition, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
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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

  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
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In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: “The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy” are on display at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
For everyone alive, there is one great equalizer, one experience that doesn’t discriminate based on race, class, religion, or nationality. We all, ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: Nicholas Longworth's gavel is among the treasures curated and conserved by the House of Representatives' very first curator., Credit: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Meet the very first curator of the U.S. House of Representatives collection... 4,000 artifacts strong.

Bought by WFPL News, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 3
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Photography has become so easy that we can forget how, not long ago, we needed to master technical skills, such as film and shutter speeds, and be ...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: Does bad luck befall everyone who's owned the infamous Hope Diamond?, Credit: The Smithsonian
Is the world's most famous diamond... cursed?

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Miles Davis
Where Ancient Greece appears in modern culture.

Bought by Listen Edition


  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: 15:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Producer Dred-Scott Keyes converses with photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker and her husband, writer Jeff Walker about their collaboration in producin...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2010
  • Length: 57:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Secret signs... hidden profiles... underground stalactites... This is not your 8th-grade tour of D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Attkinson's Star Toy Museum, Credit: Courtesy of Andrew Hiller
A Hungarian Princess Leia, a six foot long Millenium Falcon, and over 13,000 other Star Wars toys live in Stephen Atkinson's home turned Museum. S...

Bought by KUT and WAMC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2010
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 2
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Who says 13 is unlucky? We’ve made it this far and are so thankful to have done so! For thirteen, we travel to just north of Tucson, AZ to intervie...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, Credit: Avishay Artsy
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: Arthur and Aggie, Credit: Walter Murch
The Santa Monica Pier and Arthur Lessac turned 100 years old on September 9th

  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 11:20
Caption: A piece of artwork depicting the Cherokee character "ma.", Credit: Cherokee Heritage Center
The Cherokee Heritage Center is using art to help pass on the Cherokee language.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: check out mondolithic.com, Credit: Kenn Brown via mondolithic.com
Lacy Roberts and Charles Darwin muse on what's in store.

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Classical music in the years before and just after the Revolution

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Classical music in American in the 19th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 15:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Classical music in American in the 20th Century

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 13:51
  • Purchases: 1
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details the long-sought return of the Alutiiq Masks from France to Kodiak. AK.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 06:09
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A look into the contemporary Freak Show

Bought by WILL and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2