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Carlo Rovelli offers vast, complex ideas beyond most of our imagining — "quanta," "grains of space," time and the heat of black holes" — and conden...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
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Fundamental forces of physics somehow determine everything that happens, “from the birth of a child to the birth of a galaxy.” Yet physicist Leonar...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Bride of the Wind, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Henry Schvey discusses the inspiration for his play on the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka,

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 12:16
Caption: Vimal Patel cooks inside -- and outside -- a room in the Day's Inn he operates in North Charleston. , Credit: Photo by Wade Spees for the Post & Courier.
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 1
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John Guare's story of connection and deception.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, WNJR, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library
Matt Novak of the blog "Paleofuture" talks about "The Jetsons," the show that helped define American ideas of future technology without thinking mu...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New Your City Public Library
Across history, Americans have dreamed of what the future will hold, from the flying cars and 3-hour workdays of The Jetsons to fears of World War ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Dearly Departed 2014
A year end look back at the music legends who departed in 2014, including Pete Seeger, Jack Bruce, Johnny Winter, Bobby Womack, Tommy Ramone, and m...

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Ed sits down with historian Adam Shprintzen to discuss the 19th-century Americans who saw a vegetarian diet as a powerful tool of moral reform, one...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A version of Barnum's Feejee Mermaid. It may actually be his... in true Barnum fashion, the origins are unknown.
In America, you can be anything you want to be. Or anyone. Literally. So on this edition of BackStory, we dig into the long story of confidence men...

Bought by KSRQ, XRAY.fm, WRGY, RadioFreePalmer, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Pedro Pan girls, Florida City, Fla., 1962.  , Credit: Courtesy of Ileana Ortega Menéndez.
Stories about the surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S./Mexico border filled news pages this summer. It’s often been referred to as an im...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Academic Gowns, American Usage,” chromolithographic print by Julius Bien & Co., 1903.
Fall's here, and all across the country, college students are returning to campus - and so is BackStory. Last year, President Obama proposed sweepi...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRGY, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBRP Community Radio, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
Brian Balogh speaks with former Senator Fred Harris about the commission convened by President Lyndon Johnson in the dark days of the 1967 Detroit ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:24
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
For many Americans, the storyline that played out on August 9th in Ferguson, Mo. — when an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by a white polic...

Bought by Moab Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXDU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, BackStory heads into the wilderness, exploring Americans’ fascination with, and fear of, wi...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Victory of the USS Constitution over the HMS Guerriere in the War of 1812, by Anton Otto Fischer, Credit: U.S. Navy - Naval Historical Center
Two hundred years ago this month, Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the War of 1812 raged around him. But few Americans know mu...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Depiction of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm, in Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1889).
On this episode of BackStory, we’re taking on space. From Cotton Mather’s list of every comet since the beginning of time (415, to be exact), to th...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Depiction of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm. , Credit: Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1889).
Americans have had an ongoing fascination with the skies above us, so in this episode, we’re taking on space. How have people made sense of meteors...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBRP Community Radio, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Depiction of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm, in Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1889).
30-second promo for "Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens," with a 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thomas Nast, "The Brains", Credit: Wikimedia Commons
It’s a worry as old as the Republic: Do politicians look out for the public good, or their own private interests? But what exactly Americans consid...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBRP Community Radio, WRPI and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Thomas Nast, "The Brains", Credit: Wikimedia Commons
30-second promo for BackStory episode, 'On the Take: Corruption in America,' with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag. Ful...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ansel Adams, Boulder Dam 1941, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Western U.S. is in the grip of a punishing drought. Reservoir levels are dropping, and farmers are struggling to ensure water access for their ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Ansel Adams, Boulder Dam 1941, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Western U.S. is in the grip of a punishing drought. Reservoir levels are dropping, and farmers are struggling to ensure water access for their ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Capital Public Radio, KBRP Community Radio, WRGY, KUOW and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Ansel Adams, Boulder Dam 1941, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
30-second promo for BackStory episode, 'Tapped Out: Thirsting For Fresh Water,' with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag. ...

Bought by Capital Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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Episode #3 travels into the realm of memory as Howard Nemerov and Gwendolyn Brooks read poems about childhood and the fleeting nature of time.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KGOU, XRAY.fm, WTJU, KYRS and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 8
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