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July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 1
Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:08
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
Robert Jevne offers up his version of "Winter Projects." Jevne brings a bit of a different perspective to winter tasks with his insight into dams a...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 01:56
Poet Danny Klecko provides a vivid glimpse into the world of baking with a look at the camaraderie amongst bakers preparing a new batch of pastries...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 01:55
Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’?
Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is ...
Bought by WRPI, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 5
Bike culture in the Bay Area runs the gamut, from high performance racing to hipster fixies. Keeping a bike can be an expensive hobby, and as with ...
Bought by WSLR and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 2
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 04:44
Hugh Sinclair traveled to several continents while working for numerous banks, agencies and institutions, and saw microfinance from the ground up. ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
There are six recall elections coming in May and June, and a non-partisan political watchdog group says wealthy special interest groups are hijacki...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:55
When Matt O'Meilia was 10 years old, a rock star moved into his neighborhood. And not just any rock star. A hometown boy made good.
The rock star...
Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 2
While researching a book, author Richard Hicks was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. He shares the unique perspective that truckers have ...
Bought by KUOW, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 3
Phalana Tiller talks with author Ron Ashkenas about his HBR blog "Learn to Trust Your Gut." She also interviews neuroeconomist Paul Zak about his r...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
The two most important leadership attributes are empathy and humility, says Ken Kraft. He works with Bank of New York Mellon employees in 36 countr...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 26:31
On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 1
Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900s, Oklahoma had an active leftist movement. Equally active was the Ku ...
Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Sep 06, 2011
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
A complex set of circumstances results in Sam awakening at 4:30am on a frigid January morning for his first day as a New York City cab driver.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 07:35
Graduate students at UCONN are helping small businesses learn about enterprise risk management and they are producing stellar results.
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 59:57
Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
There's a whole host of 'Good News/Bad News' jokes floating around on your finer after diner speech preparation websites...
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 02:30
A historical documentary that uncovers a long-lost story full of intrigue, mystery and wonder in far Northeastern Minnesota. Crooked businessmen, a...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 26:41
- Purchases: 2
We'll also travel back in time and hear the story of a song. John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of ...
Bought by mnartists.org
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
A wooden bowl is also the tree, the saw and the sanding...everything we make is a story.
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 02:48
John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
