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The death of legendary CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite on Friday sent us scurrying for the archives — and we found a series of reports that he and producer John McDonough did for All Things Considered. We hear part of one of them — Cronkite remembering the first live satellite broadcast to Europe.

NASA has taken years of sound from its historic space flights and probe missions and put it online. That gave two musicians an idea.

Indiana University added an exhibit to the online platform that features audio and photos from the early days of radio — from when black-oriented stations started popping up in the 1940s and beyond.

To mark the 50th anniversary of "Light My Fire" hitting No. 1, Fresh Air listens back to an interview with the band's keyboardist, who died in 2013. Originally broadcast in 1998.

In 1990, two men stole 13 pieces of art from a Boston museum. They're worth half a billion dollars ... if you could sell them. On the other hand, the museum has a hefty reward for their whereabouts.

The e-commerce giant launched a new program this week in Seattle that pays part-time drivers to deliver packages.

From "dead cat bounce," which originated in the 1980s, to "cold fish," which was coined by Shakespeare, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms explores the origins of more than 10,000 nonliteral sayings.

Did you know the Count of Monte Cristo was based on a real man? General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a hero of the French Revolution. But he's now forgotten by almost everyone except the son who shared his name and used his father's life as inspiration for some of the greatest novels of all time.

We listen back to our show from earlier this year before the coronavirus pandemic with the Southwest Florida-based band Exploding Pages performing live in studio ahead of the anticipated release of their latest album “Steady Midnight.”

David Greene talks to Cheo Hodari Coker, a screenwriter and creator of the Netflix series Luke Cage, about how people of color fared at Sunday's Academy Awards, and about the best picture mix-up.