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“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Zella Palmer talks about food in New Orleans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Dr. Zella Palmer, Credit: Courtesy of Dillard University
“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Educator, Author, and Filmmaker Dr. Zella Palmer discusses her work in preserving the legacy of African-Am...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Off with Her Head
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black Kings of Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gabriel's Horn
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jabbo Smith
This is a feature of those unsung heroes on trumpet and cornet in early jazz. They received little notice because there were two, at that time, who...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Creating Beauty From Nothing
From: Melanie Harth
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Living From Happiness - deep, thoughtful, provocative public radio

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:57
Putting Peace First
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacket Cover, Credit: design by Kate Renner
Twenty-five years ago Eric David Dawson was your almost average 18-year old … almost, but not quite. That was the year he co-founded the non-profit...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Boots on the Ground jacket cover, Credit: John Dittman, Stars & Strips
The Vietnam War remains a thorn in the side of America’s history. More than 57-thousand US soldiers died and an untold number of Vietnamese civilia...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Stand Up!
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gordon Whitman
For the past 20-years, Gordon Whitman has been working with the group Faith in Action where he is the deputy director. His job is teaching people h...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Importance of Being Funny
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Al Gini
Political humorists are having a feeding frenzy. There seems to be more satire available than they can handle very day then they can handle.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Aggie Barkhouse "Don't Waste the Music"
From: Will Heron
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NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission. Ninety-year-old Nova Scotian, Aggie Barkhouse, reminisces about the hard life of the...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Mike Zito (Formerly of Royal Southern Brotherhood) Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Official Press Photo, Credit: Official Album Cover
Mike Zito talked with Country Fried Rock just before the announcement that he was leaving Royal Southern Brotherhood -- a departure with no drama o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, KKRN, WLPR , WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Perry Brown of Fire Mountain (Full Music Radio Version)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: All Dies Down by Fire Mountain, Credit: Official Album Cover
Perry Brown is a graphic designer in Montgomery by day, and a musician in his hometown of Troy -- 90 minutes away -- by night. As a band currently...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Gospel Roots of Rock and Roll
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and was an early influence on Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
Technology's Promise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor William E. Halal
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Introducing Christiane Noll!
From: Fred Flaxman
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Interview plus plenty of great music sung by this young Broadway star.

Bought by KUCO


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
Controversy Over Sony's "root kit" CDs
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview about fallout from Sony's failed attempt to protect music CDs from piracy.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 12:58
Let's Get Digital
From: WFUV
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A primer on the controversial intersection between music and the Internet.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KVNF, WYSO, KUHB, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Public Art in Indianapolis - with comments by Meryl Streep
From: M. Travis DiNicola
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A feature about Don Gummer's sculpture, "Southern Circle" and a new public art initiative in Indianapolis.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2004
  • Length: 15:09