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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 ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
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
Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 15, 2008
- Length: 09:17
Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:52
Examining how identiy politics is playing out in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 08:06
Examining how immigration is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 01:20
Examining the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
In the 19th century, legal battles over the Merrimack River helped define the modern corporation we see today
- Added: Jul 26, 2008
- Length: 06:57
