Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Gift

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has brought joy and sparkle to Midtown Manhattan since the early 1930s. The annual festivities may seem steady and timeless but this holiday icon actually has a surprisingly dramatic history. Millions tune in each year to watch the tree light ...  Show more

December 27, 1853. On a freezing, snowy night in Birmingham, England, 2,000 people have lined up outside the town hall. They’ve braved the temperatures for a landmark performance, Charles Dickens’ first reading of A Christmas Carol. The tale will become an international sensation ...  Show more

David Weinberg was stuck. He had been kicked out of college, was cleaning toilets by day, delivering pizzas by night and spending his weekends in jail. Then one night he heard a story on the radio and got it in his head that maybe he too could make a great radio story. He’d ca ...

Bilder malten Menschen schon in der Steinzeit. Texte wurden schon im Mittelalter vervielfältigt, doch erst 1860 entstand in Frankreich die älteste Tonaufnahme. Die Erfindung des Telefons und das Funken mit Radiowellen waren weitere wichtige Etappen, bis 1923 der reguläre Rundfunk ...  Show more

Radiosendungen auf Türkisch, Griechisch oder Italienisch waren ab 1964 oft die einzige Informationsquelle für Gastarbeiter in Deutschland. Eine Brücke zwischen alter und neuer Heimat. Von Esther Saoub (SWR 2023/2025) | Manuskript und mehr zur Sendung: http://swr.li/gastarbeiterpr ...  Show more

Happy 76th Birthday, Ma! In this episode, we celebrate her birthday with lunch at her favorite restaurant, where we talk about life, death, and how gratitude for each day doesn’t always mean we should skip the special ones, like birthdays — no matter how badly I want to skip my o ...  Show more