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Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - The Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin is Released!
In 2015 we presented this story about Curtis Carroll, the Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin. Everyone in San Quentin called him Wall Street. He was …
3 years, 3 months ago
Silent Echoes: Sound Artist Bill Fontana—The Bells of Notre Dame
Since the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the ringing of the cathedral’s bells has ceased.
Sound artist, Bill Fontana, known…
3 years, 3 months ago
204 - Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters' Audio Collection - KQED Forum Interview
Over 7000 hours of interviews, oral histories, songs, field recordings, along with photographs, notebooks, journals, and research material created by…
3 years, 4 months ago
203 - A San Quentin Wedding
Edmond Richardson is an audio producer for Uncuffed, a KALW podcast produced by people in prison. Recently, Edmond and his love, Avelina, got married…
3 years, 4 months ago
Harvesting Wild Rice—White Earth Ojibwe Land Recovery Project
Each fall, the Ojibwe tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It’s a long process that begins with families in canoes venturing into …
3 years, 5 months ago
From Nashville to Nairobi: A History of Country Western Music in Kenya
We trace the history of country music in Kenya, dating back to the 1920s and 30s when local populations first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country w…
3 years, 5 months ago
Manny’s: A Civic Gathering Place
As elections loom, we need to get involved, step up to the civic plate, take part in discourse. And that’s what Manny Yekutiel has been driven to do …
3 years, 6 months ago
Linda Ronstadt: Feels Like Home - A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
Episode 199
The legendary Linda Ronstadt has a new book out. Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands — a historical, musical, edible memoir that span…
3 years, 6 months ago
198 - The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, and Louis Armstrong
The story of The Real Ambassadors, a jazz musical created by Dave Brubeck and Iola Brubeck for Louis Armstrong in the 1950/60s—a poignant tale of cul…
3 years, 7 months ago
197 - What Fire Reveals: Stories from the Amah Mutsun, Big Basin and the Lightning Fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains
In the early morning hours of August 16, 2020, 12,000 lightning strikes exploded across northern California, igniting more than 585 wildfires. In the…
3 years, 7 months ago