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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depr...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
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...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:28:56
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:29:35
Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. [33:04]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:33:04
On this episode of Culture Clique, we sit down for tea in downtown Winona. The founders of Mandala Center for Wellness (Garret Sorenson and Sarah C...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:41:09
Survey time! Do you call that kind of cap a beanie, a toboggan, or a stocking hat, or something else? What about rubber-soled athletic shoes? Do yo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:54:00
- Purchases: 2
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 00:39:25
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 00:23:30
Huell Howser is a beloved television personality who explores the natural wonders and people of our fine state as the host of “California’s Gold”. ...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 00:11:50
From WQXR
In this hour-long special from WQXR and WNYC, host Terrance McKnight interweaves musical examples with Dr. King's own speeches and sermons to illus...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 00:58:00
A portrait of Hazel Scott (1920-1981), the wife of late Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and a Julliard-trained pianist who performed in some o...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 00:58:59
Why do spelling bees include such bizarre, obsolete words like cymotrichous? And why is New York called the Big Apple? Also, the stinky folk medici...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 00:54:00
- Purchases: 2
An author interview with Arthur Magida on "The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle"
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 00:27:59
A well-meaning illustration in a children's book sparks controversy over segregation in the nation's capital in the 1930s.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 00:07:41
- Purchases: 2
The Stones' mid-60's records are the focus with Slim Harpo on the Stones Roots segment, Cash Box Kings doing Off The Hook on the Double Shot, Ronni...
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:58:55
Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class s...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN, KTRL, WFPL News and more
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:53:59
- Purchases: 16
America’s forgotten first African-American World
Champion cycles his way to international fame at the
turn of the 20th century.
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:02:37
America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing
champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ
Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:02:43
Two undefeated heavyweight boxing
champions capture the imagination of a polarized
America on March 8, 1971.
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:02:46
Jim Jones, Cultural Resources Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council talks with Scott Hall about the closing of the Pamida store in Bemid...
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:11:55
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...
Bought by KAZU
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 00:56:48
- Purchases: 1
What do pigs have to do with piggyback rides? Martha and Grant have the answer. They also get a lesson from a listener in the fine art of speaking ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 00:54:00
- Purchases: 2
It starts with a Human Monkey.
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 5
They came to Hollywood to escape the Nazi regime.
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 2
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 WCMU Public Radio, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KPVL, and WEMU
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 4
