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Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
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Curator Roberta Olson talks about her book and the New York Historical Society exhibition, AUDUBON’S AVIARY. It’s about the original watercolors fo...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:04
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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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Radio Curious takes you to France as it was in 1932 where Maya Schwartz was born to an immigrant family. 1939 to 1945 her family was torn apart by...

  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
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In a little known chapter of American history, hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholic children were taken from their families in New York City and...

Bought by KFOK-LP and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Inge Katzenstein discusses fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and finding refuge along with her family in Kenya, where they remained during the war, ther...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 12:40
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Gideon Frieder discusses the time he spent hiding with a Catholic Slovak family. After his mother and sister perished in a German attack at Banska ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 12:02
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Freddie Traum discusses life as a refugee in Great Britain during World War II. Freddie and his sister were sent from their home in Austria, to Eng...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:04
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Louise Lawrence-Israels discusses memories from her early childhood spent hiding in Amsterdam. In 1942, 6 month old Louise and her family went into...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:41
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Jacqueline Mendels Birn discusses her family’s flight in July 1942 from German-occupied Paris to the southern “free” French zone known as Vichy.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:24
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Halina Peabody discusses her mother’s decision to go into hiding as a family following the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Halina spent the war ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 12:02
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"The Last Hunter - An American Family Album" by MN Author Will Weaver.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani is back on Realgoodwords this week talking about her grandmothers, including Lucy from Chisholm.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 30:14
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We’ll hear from Kris Prestidge. He’ll tell the story of his Finnish immigrant grandparents who settled north of Deer River, and the family reunion...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2010
  • Length: 08:36
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Patty Feld talks about the Edge Center for the Arts production of "Fiddler on the Roof."

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 13:03
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KVSC Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack reports on the Library Day held at St. Cloud State University for middle school students as t...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2010
  • Length: 26:07
Caption: The Atcheson children, Washington, DC, Credit: Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) Courtesy: Library of Congress
Elementary school teachers may want to encourage a noisier classroom this fall. Adam Winsler’s recent research shows that 5-year-olds perform bette...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
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10 year-old Frankie DeVito remembers his grandfather, Bill Steckman, in an interview with his mother Diana. Bill Steckman was killed in the World T...

Bought by WRNC-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, KFOK-LP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2008
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 7
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Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "Following Sean"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:20

  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 26:04

  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 26:46

  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 25:51

  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 26:34

  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 24:36
  • Purchases: 1
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"Can you tell me the scariest moment when you were a little boy?"

Bought by KFOK-LP, WCBU, and KWCW


  • Added: May 26, 2006
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 3