The K-Rob Collection
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The K-Rob Collection
Welcome to amazing podcasts from Hall of Fame broadcaster and journalist Ken Robinson in this series of classic entertainment/information programs, and recent interview and music shows. The collection also contains Audio Antiques, which is not your usual "cops & comedians" old time radio podcas...
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Ken Robinson Podcast - Hyperloop Transporation & Asteroid Threats
Will Hyperloop technology revolutionize the transportation industry? A conversation with Dave Packer of ABC News who says construction of a system is...
Audio Antiques - Philip Morris Playhouse
In this podcast, we're going to the playhouse. Philip Morris Playhouse was a 30-minute dramatic anthology series, that usually involved crime, and was...
Ken Robinson Podcast - Suffering With Crippling Chronic Pain
Chronic pain patients say they are suffering because of America's War on Drugs. People hooked on tobacco and vaping can find help at 1-800-QUIT NOW. A...
Audio Antiques - Black Health Matters in 1945
Our focus is on the medical community and its relationship with African-Americans before and after World War 2. We have two episodes from the classic...
Ken Robinson Podcast - Americans Moving and Improving!
Americans are on the move. ABC News correspondent Alex Stone reports that there's an exodus from the states of New Jersey, Illinois, New York, Connect...
Audio Antiques - Dick Gregory, Activist Comedian
This show is about Dick Gregory, the comedian, civil rights activist, and author whose pioneering stand-up routines made him a prominent voice in both...
Audio Antiques - James Weldon Johnson, Booker T. Washington & Mary Church Terrell
Destination Freedom was a weekly radio program produced by NBC radio station WMAQ in Chicago from 1948 to 1950. It presented biographical histories of...
Audio Antiques - Science Fiction Writers Tell All
Ever wonder what it takes to be a science fiction writer? You will find out as we present, the 1956 NBC radio program Biography in Sound. You will hea...
Audio Antiques - The Fabulous Ink Spots
The Ink Spots were an American vocal jazz group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. The Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame inductees paved the...
Audio Antiques - Radio's Greatest Mystery Theaters
Mystery dramas were always a listener favorite during radio's classic era. You will hear four such theater productions in this podcast. Mollé Mystery...
Audio Antiques - The Legacy of Lead Belly
This podcast is about Huddie William Ledbetter. Better known by his stage name Lead Belly, was one of the most celebrated folk and blues singers of hi...
Audio Antiques - A Mutual Tribute
In this podcast, we pay tribute to the Mutual Broadcasting System. It was the fourth nationwide radio network to be established in the United States,...
Audio Antiques - Black Baseball Milestones
In April 1947, modern day baseball changed forever. That's when Jackie Robinson played his first major league game as a Brooklyn Dodger. After that da...
Audio Antiques - The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all-women's band in the United States. The Sweethearts were formed at Piney Woods Cou...
Audio Antiques - Trailblazing Actor Canada Lee
Before there was Sidney Poitier and Harry Bellafonte, there was Canada Lee...who along with Paul Robeson was among the very few black actors to scratc...
Audio Antiques - John & Robert Kennedy
The life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy have been the subject of many history books. The public got to see him up close and personal after Senat...
Audio Antiques - The Golden Gate Quartet
The Golden Gate Quartet is an African-American vocal group, that was founded in 1934 by four students at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk,...
Audio Antiques - Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter Presidential Debate
They were the first presidential debates since 1960. President Gerald Ford, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter were in a close race for the White House...
Audio Antiques - History of the American Ghetto
Ghetto is a word that dates back to 1516. It's an Italian word that was used describe part of a city where Jewish people were restricted to live. Sinc...
Audio Antiques - Radio Singers & Comedians
There were a lot of singers and comedians on the air during radio's classic era. Not only that, but you had singers who told jokes, and comedians who...
Audio Antiques - This Is Jazz!
Jazz and radio broadcasting were born right around the same time, and stuck together well into the Rock-N-Roll age. The early days of radio will fille...
Audio Antiques - A Radio Horror & Fantasy Festival
Horror and fantasy shows appeared on radio nearly from the very start. The first horror drama during radio's golden age was The Witch's Tale, which wa...
Audio Antiques - Opera Legend Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson was one of the most popular and talented operatic singers in the 20th century. The African-American contralto overcame childhood pover...
Audio Antiques - The Korean War
It is often called the Forgotten Conflict. The Korean War was started by North Korea in 1950, assisted by Russia and China. They attacked South Korea...
Audio Antiques - Jack Webb, Civil Rights Crusader
Jack Webb was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the TV police...
Audio Antiques - Legal Dramas on Radio
Golden age radio was filled with situation comedies, detective shows, and variety programs, but there were also a few legal dramas on the air. Fiction...
Audio Antiques - The Malcolm X Interviews
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in 1925. He was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist and a prominent figure during the civi...
Audio Antiques - Comic Strips on Radio
Comic strips first began appearing in newspapers during the late 1800s. In most of the 20th century there were at least 200 different comic strips and...
Audio Antiques - Meet Legendary Jazz Volcalist Billie Holiday
This podcast is about Billie Holiday, one of the most popular singers of the jazz age. Lady Day was born born Eleanora Fagan in 1915. While surviving...
Audio Antiques - NBC Monitor the forerunner of NPR
Before there was National Public Radio, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition, there was NBC Monitor, a weekend-long radio program, broadcast liv...
Audio Antiques - Country stars DeFord Bailey, Charlie Pride, Linda Martell and Others
Just like jazz, country music was on radio from the very start. One of the earliest country music programs to be broadcast was the Grand Ole Opry, whi...
Audio Antiques - Radio and the Great Depression
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1941 which was much of radio's golden age. After the Wall Street Crash of October 1929. The United States was...
Ken Robinson Podcast - Mass Shootings & Human Bondage
Ken interviews Tim Dimoff of SACs Security & Investigative Services, former ATF Agent Pat Beraducci, and Winnie Boyland of the Collaborative to End H...
Audio Antiques - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Without question, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most visible, and celebrated leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his ass...
Ken Robinson Podcast - How To Get Labor Union Representation
SEIU's Anthony Caldwell reveals how to get union representation at your workplace. The Ford Motor Company says there's a serious shortage of auto tech...
Audio Antiques - The Associated Press Story
The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news organization based in the United States, founded in 1846. It is known for its commitment to providing ac...
Ken Robinson Podcast - Celebrating Ramadan & Stock Market Investing
Ken interviews Julia Shearson of the Council on American Islamic Relations about the month of Ramadan. Also, investment strategist Dr. Joseph Belmonte...
Audio Antiques - Communism & Socialism on Early Radio
In the United States, the 1930s and 1940s were marked by growing suspicion of communism and socialism, but under the fairness doctrine that opened the...
Ken Robinson Podcast - Money Madness
Ken explores way to keep your household from going broke during times when cash is tight. His guests are author Carol Keeffe, psychotherapist Collette...
Audio Antiques - The Journalist & the Lawyer
We're going to learn about two soldiers in the battle for civil rights and justice.
First...Ida B. Wells was an African American...