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98 - Lost & Found Sound and Voices of The Dust Bowl
Fish mongers recorded on the streets of Harlem in the 1930s. An 8-year-old girl’s impromptu news cast made on a toy recorder in a San Diego store. Ly…
7 years, 8 months ago
97 - Pan American Blues: The Birth of The Grand Ole Opry & "Harmonica Wizard" DeFord Bailey
The story of the birth of the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, TN and the story of “Harmonica Wizard” DeFord Bailey, the Opry’s firs…
7 years, 9 months ago
96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
The dramatic stories of three pioneering “Keepers” and environmental activists—Ken Sleight, Katie Lee, and Mark Dubois and the damming of wild rivers…
7 years, 9 months ago
95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
Russians preparing dinner for Americans in space? Sounds good to us.
There’s been a lot of jabber these days about creating a “Space Force,” a sixth …
7 years, 10 months ago
94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
The Agave Goddess with 200 breasts; jimadors stripping lethal thorny leaves off agaves; farmers battling cambio climatico (climate change); distil…
7 years, 10 months ago
93 - Prince and the Technician
In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician, Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home record…
7 years, 11 months ago
92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
In the early 1970’s, radio producer and author Studs Terkel wrote a book called Working. He went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape record…
7 years, 11 months ago
91 - Mimi Chakarova: Love, Art and Anger
Mimi Chakarova is a Bulgarian-American filmmaker, photographer, journalism professor, activist, immigrant and single mother. Her documentary “Men a L…
8 years ago
90 - Jorge Amado: The Ballad of Bahia
Jorge Amado, the beloved Brazilian author of Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Tent of Miracles – wrote over 30 books in…
8 years ago
89 - Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Celebrating 99 Years
In honor of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 99th birthday we celebrate with River’s of Memory, produced by Jim McKee of Earwax Productions. Over the las…
8 years, 1 month ago