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Granite City Radio Theater Season 12 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Leslie Vincent
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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Verily, comedic and dramatic whatnot took place, and there was original jazz that took us back to the feeling of 100 years ago with Special Musical...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:20
240202: Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism, 2/2/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Today we talk with neuroscientist and Smithsonian Associate Kevin Mitchell about how research into the brain’s inner workings has complicated the w...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2023
  • Length: 30:17
Chuck D & Rosa Clemente: Hip Hop's Unfinished Revolution
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called Hip Hop "the Black CNN". As Hip Hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, Laura talks with him, and Br...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Granite City Radio Theater Season 11 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Becky Schlegel
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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In our spring edition of Season 11 of the Granite City Radio Theater, the comedy, drama, and music reflected the changing of the seasons . . . whic...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:49:47
2022-09-04 (End of) Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What thoughtful and controversial books do some people say other people shouldn’t read?

Bought by WLPR , KTSW 89.9, KMUN, WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Ponder #42: Beer
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Granite City Radio Theater Season 10 Episode 4 with Special Musical Guest David Huckfelt
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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On May 4th (be with you) 2022, KVSC presented the SEASON FIANLE of our 10th season of the Granite City Radio Theater! Our special musical guest Da...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:55:25
Granite City Radio Theater Season 10 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Shannon Curfman
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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In our 3rd episode of our 10th season of the Granite City Radio Theater, the drama, comedy, trivia, and music continued to captivate both our live...

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:51:01
Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents Jewish music from Ukraine as well as Jewish music with distinctive Ukrainian roots.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
Granite City Radio Theater Season 10 Episode 1 with Special Musical Guest Dennis Warner.
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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There’s a reason it’s illegal to be drunk and in charge of a cow in Scotland, and the Season 10 (!!!) premier of the Granite City Radio Theater cle...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:03:07
2021-09-05 (End of) Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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With summer ending and some parts of our lives returning to some kind of normal, what should thoughtful people be reading?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-08-08 The Creative Life
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What does questioning everything have to do with being creative?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #14: Sacred Self
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
2021-01-03 Comforting Conversations (Part 1)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KALW, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Bad Mistakes Make Good Stories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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In this episode of the FEHLER podcast, Sylvia Cunningham, deputy editor at our partner radio station KCRW Berlin, compiles five stories that show j...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 50:35
The Granite City Radio Theater Season 8 Episode 4 Season Finale Held a Little Late Due to COVID with Special Musical Guest Michael Shynes
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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So, yeah . . . the COVID thing! Our original season finale was supposed to air back in early May, but as you well know, that just didn’t happen. We...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:03:31
The Granite City Radio Theater Season 8 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Debbie Duncan
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
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And here we are, the Granite City Radio Theater on March 11, 2020. It’s a time right before all the social distancing protocols surrounding the CO...

Bought by KBEM


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:26
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing at the Crematorium - by Offramp
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Offramp - The Improvised Comedy Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Defiantly dancing in the midst of grief

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 03:24
The Bob Dylan Jazz Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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It’s vocal jazz interpretations of the music of Bob Dylan, on this Afterglow special, including covers by Nina Simone, Madeleine Peyroux, and more.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
All Mixed Up-American Dream
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Approaching America , Credit: 1905
From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
2018-11-25 Holiday Films on Corn, Coal, Lights, and Flights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s a holiday movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate sto...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KUNM and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6