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Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:18
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Anne Tyler has a new book out! "The Beginner's Goodbye." Here Julia Child presents passages from an earlier Anne Tyler favorite, "Dinner at the Hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 24:58
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
"Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant" features such strange musical animals as the Pop-up toadsters, the Circular Sawtoise, the Clocktopus, and the Ballp...
- Added: Mar 24, 2012
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
ARRIVING LIKE KING OF THE JUNGLE...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 55:45
The real story behind one of the most famous tourism slogans of all time.
Bought by WTJU, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 3
Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition. It usually involves the involuntary coupling together of two unrelated sensory or cognitive experienc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 1
Bandleader, vocalist, pianist and composer Noble Sissle began his career in 1915 when he joined ragtime-vaudevillian Eubie Blake. Together they wr...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 58:59
MY GILLS DON'T FILTER WATER...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 21:06
The music Ambrose performed and recorded through the late 1920s and early 1930s was meant for dancing. Although he didn't experiment with his arran...
- Added: Jan 29, 2012
- Length: 59:00
In recognition of Hanukkah, this show is dedicated to the Jews who catapulted popular music to stage and radio from the 1900 to the early 1930s.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KWIT, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
A one hour special featuring performers, writers, and puppeteers who worked with Jim Henson from the beginning. The program includes interviews, o...
Bought by The Pulse--Messiah College Radio, KWMR, WNIN, KZYX, KSRQ and more
- Added: Nov 30, 2011
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 6
One menopausal woman's search for the meaning of thong menstrual pads.
- Added: Aug 21, 2011
- Length: 08:00
OUR CROWN AND GLORY SOMETIMES NEEDS...
- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 01:30
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus perfor...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 03, 2011
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 1
Pigeon racers across New England get out their lawn chairs and wait for their birds. The flocks are released 150 miles away from home. The pigeons ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 4
A radio drama/semi-romance built on sound gathered during a field trip to southwestern India. Two American travelers, brought by chance to a tiny I...
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 22:19
An audio postcard about the culinary side of the 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 03:57
HE BEGINS AS THE SUN...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
On Mother's Day 2010, in front of a crowd of 12,227 fans and one very proud and happy gramma, Dallas Braden pitched A PERFECT GAME!
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 03:57
Lenny Rico and wife Cindy talk about inheriting the longest running Italian-American radio show from Lenny’s parents, Emelino and Mary Rico. Their...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:52
