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Please join us for a rare journey through poetry and conversation with the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact, the birth of our nat...
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM, KWMR, WRNC-LP, WTIP, WUFT and more
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 59:17
- Purchases: 7
We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2015
- Length: 13:13
Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 12:13
Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:25
A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 12:39
Unspun talks with Alison Weir, author of Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel , Executive Dire...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 1
Pure evil is caught on tape in the case of a deliberate murder that took 8 years of planning, plenty of hard work, and a YouTube video to accomplis...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 01:21:08
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
Ever wonder how the Halloween we Americans celebrate came to be? In search of answers reporter Todd Crotty ventured into the past to unravel the m...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 04:08
The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
Latitude News Podcast #7 — From War on Drugs to legal weed, where will the U.S. lead the world next?
From: Latitude News
A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 15:06
- Purchases: 1
We dive into the Schrödinger's Cat paradox and ask what it reveals about the nature of quantum mechanics and physics in general.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 1
Step into the weird world of relativity as we walk through the Twin Paradox with help from some great physics teachers.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 09:03
- Purchases: 1
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Radio Diaries
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2010
- Length: 22:59
- Purchases: 8
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...
- Added: Sep 02, 2010
- Length: 29:04
Paris has its Parisians, Boston its Bostonians. What does it take to be/become a Washingtonian?
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 07:04
Was DC really built on a swamp? Why does the grid system have no J Street? And what's up with all those crazy traffic circles?
Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC, and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 29, 2009
- Length: 03:31
Shawn Allee meets a man who took the Dow and dioxin issue to Congress years ago and is shocked it hasn't been dealt with.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:40
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 07:34
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 30:13
- Purchases: 2
Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 08:00
Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 08:09
