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Women on the Air: Cokie Roberts from 2020-09-18T00:51:46
On September 17, 2019, award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and author Cokie Roberts passed away at the age of 75. In her memory, on this episode, we’ll share a recording of the speech that Ro...
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Women on the Air: Dr. Joyce Jackson from 2020-03-20T20:31:25
KUOM radio's Minnesota School of the Air series People Worth Hearing About first aired in 1969 with programs that featured biographies of prominent African Americans. In 1971, the program broad...
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Women on the Air: Geraldine Ferraro visits Minnesota from 2019-03-14T20:41:31
Four months after the 1984 presidential election, Geraldine Ferraro visited Minnesota where she was greeted by a large and receptive audience as the guest speaker for the Distinguished Carlson L...
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Women on the Air: People Worth Hearing About from 2018-11-01T18:36:03
The program series People Worth Hearing About originated with The Minnesota School of the Air director, Betty Girling. The series first aired in 1969. In this episode, a feature on Maria Sanford...
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Women on the Air: Eugenie Anderson from 2018-10-03T02:22:27
This episode features a woman who achieved many notable firsts, a political leader who used her voice to better her community, implement and sustain diplomacy, and develop her own potentiality: ...
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A cover-up at the Met from 2018-05-11T14:47:02
From 1938-1979, the Minnesota School of the Air brought educational programs into the classrooms of Minnesota and beyond over radio airwaves and through tape transcription. This episode takes li...
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At the Zoo from 2018-03-30T20:46:11
On this episode of U of M Radio on your Historic Dial take a field trip in sound to the Como Zoo in 1978 and hear a surprising story of an animal theft and why lions do not make good pets.
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A Clinic That’s For the Birds from 2017-12-08T21:46:24
On this installment of "U of M Radio on your Historic Dial," we’ll travel to the St. Paul campus to "A Clinic That’s for the Birds" – which also happens to be the title of the December 8, 1977 e...
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Another Way to Go From Minneapolis to St. Paul from 2017-11-17T12:43:49
Today’s field trip in sound on the program "Look What We Found" is more of a staycation. On the November 17, 1977 episode, program announcers Walter, Patty, and Bill, gave a tour of the KUOM ra...
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In A Vietnamese Kitchen from 2017-10-27T16:44:40
In this week’s episode of Look What We Found, titled “In A Vietnamese Kitchen,” the producers teach an important lesson about cultural understanding by starting a conversation about cuisine. Whi...
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Look What We Found from 2017-09-28T23:55:02
This year for U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial we’re going on a field trip in sound and time to the 1977-1978 season of the Minnesota School of the Air to look at what we found after these rec...
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Of Poets and Podcasts from 2017-06-16T13:48:29
This installment U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial features Margeret Hasse on the KUOM program Minnesota Issues in her role as Executive Director for the Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Educatio...
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Eight Days in May from 2017-05-23T13:32:49
In this episode of U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial, you’re going to hear about an explosive week on the University of Minnesota campus, which occurred during an era of global tension, when th...
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An Englishman in Minneapolis: Sir Tyrone Guthrie from 2017-05-12T17:09:22
May 7 marked the anniversary of the Guthrie Theater’s first ever performance in 1963, a production of Hamlet starring George Grizzard and Jessica Tandy. In this episode of "U of M Radio On Your ...
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Science Lives: Women and minorities in the sciences from 2017-05-01T13:45:34
Science is at the forefront of this episode of U of M Radio on Your Historic Dial. In the late 1980s, there was a growing consensus that within 20 years, we would see a dearth of graduates in sc...
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Down the Conservation Trail from 2017-04-14T20:47:27
It’s starting to feel like spring, or what this Minnesota transplant refers to as “outside time.” With so much natural recreation to offer, it’s no surprise that Minnesota has a strong culture o...
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Women’s rights in’71 from 2017-03-28T13:44:01
Welcome back to U of M Radio on Your Historic Dial! The podcast has returned in time for Women’s History Month. The KUOM archive is full of interviews, lectures, and stories featuring dynamic, h...
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Never too old for storytime from 2017-01-06T17:28:35
To start the new year, this month we are focusing on the Minnesota School of the Air programming. Our episode today — from from Old Tales and New — achieved a national award for Education by Rad...
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Looking ahead to the 1980s: Minnesota Issues from 2016-12-19T18:27:26
In this episode of "U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial," we feature an episode from 1979 of the discussion program, Minnesota Issues. The host for the show, Arthur Naftalin, introduces the pessi...
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Japanese Americans and‘The World We Want’ from 2016-12-06T21:08:05
Wednesday marks 75 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii — an event familiar to anyone who has had a U.S. History class. But today our podcast focuses on the events on the homefront f...
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Native American Heritage Month: The Sioux Treaty from 2016-11-28T14:13:28
University Archives continues the theme of Native American Heritage on our podcast this week, wrapping up November with a bit of documentary from 67 years ago. This KUOM-produced program "Tales ...
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Native American Heritage: Ada Deer from 2016-11-07T19:19:44
November is Native American Heritage Month so for our second episode of the new podcast, U of M Radio on Your Historic Dial, we have selected an interview from the 1970s with Ada Deer, American ...
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Introducing U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial from 2016-10-20T17:08:50
Today University of Minnesota Archives is launching "U of M Radio on Your Historic Dial,"a podcast that features historic recordings from KUOM and WMMR — the original professional and student-ru...
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