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Space Oddities: Episode 1-Moon Dust In Your Lungs, Stars In Your Eyes

From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA

Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP

The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 6: Constance Markievicz

From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast

TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Constance Markievicz. The Irish revolutionary known as ...

Black History Matters: Racial Propaganda

From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters

Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP

Black History Matters: Profiling (Long Version)

From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters

Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint MD

Racial profiling has a little understood yet profound impact on race relations, and remains a source of fear and humiliation for blacks and other p...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP

Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)

From: Jeff Haas

Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"

In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more

Charlie Parker (Ep. 19)

From: Jeff Haas

Caption: Charlie Parker, the king of bebop

In this hour, it's the legendary story of how a Kansas City kid who didn’t like to practice became the king of bebop.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM, KHNS and more

Chicago Jazz

From: Jeff Haas

Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.

Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBBI Alaska, KUPR low power FM and more

March 30: Georgiana Molloy

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM

Distillations Episode 122: Our Chemical Landscape - The City

From: Distillations

Caption: Philadelphia skyline., Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user Kevin Burkett.

In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, today we begin the four-part series Our Chemical Landscape. These shows look at how science has sh...