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The Big Ponder #31: Winterreise
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the endless sunshine of Dubai, Bilal Qureshi revisits Franz Schubert’s acclaimed song cycle “Winterreise.” The lyrics of a heartbroken man’s jou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
All Is Calm: A Quiet Afterglow Christmas
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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At the end the year, relax with Afterglow, as I play some peaceful holiday songs to soothe your soul, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Frank...

Bought by KCNP, Radio Catskill, Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
RDD: Toraigh
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Toraigh is an Irish Gaelic word that means "seek" or "search." It's also the title of this week's Rough Draft Diaries as we meet a local band of t...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:07
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2020
From: Dale Bolton
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Explore a glimpse of this vast repertoire of poetry, songs, stories, and recitations about the “Blessed Virgin Mary” in this holiday special. The i...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Big Pond #48: Legacies of the Berlin Wall
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 2
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
In Memoriam 2018
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
180526 Southern Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
180303 Emile Griffith, Music From Boston and Music About The Back Door
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23
A Holiday Duel (Hour 1): Presented by The Appetizer Radio Show
From: D. Grant Smith
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This season is filled with music that has been around for years and years, to the degree that most Christmas albums or collections all contain some...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Holiday Duel (Hour 2): Presented by The Appetizer Radio Show
From: D. Grant Smith
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Our special continues with a historic and introspective look at other holiday classics including one of the most historic Christmas songs of all-ti...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Land of the Lost and Tales of Topographic Oceans
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:09
Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance, Credit: Julia Meek
It's a time of military memorials in our world, and that's the hallowed path we walk on this week's edition, with musical reflections on battles--a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WVIA, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 17
170429 The South - New Orleans Removes It's Confederacy Statues
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:08:20
170429 Short Version Sound Alikes - Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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This is the short segment focusing only on Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf musics' similar sounds. Taken from the 170429 show.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:20:55
Music & Mans Self Discovery with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Music & Mans Self Discovery with Dj Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid aka Paul Miller explores the ways in which music documents, inspires, heals and ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 27:41
Dizzy Gillespie
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Dizzy Gillespie
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Amnon Weinstein's Violins of Hope - Live in Charlotte
From: Sam Van Hallgren
Caption: Amnon Weinstein, with a Violin of Hope, Credit: Ken Lambla
Master violin maker Amnon Weinstein has spent the past two decades finding and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust. In April, 2012, he br...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
THE LAST SHUTTLE ( May 2012 Update/Remix)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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On April 27th, 2012, I stood on the banks of the Hudson River in NYC.. and watched Space Shuttle Enterprise make a fly-by, strapped to the back of...

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 57:37
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Ornette Coleman / Dewey Redman
From: Murray Street Productions
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In Memory of Dewey Redman, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio with Ed Bradley offers its Redman-fronted Ornette Coleman edition FREE to stations.

Bought by WDCB, KMUW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNCU, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 10
Louis Romanos - New Orleans Musician Afloat after Katrina
From: Andrew Reissiger
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Mainstay New Orleans drummer/producer/teacher - a personal story of hurricane parties, performing at Jazzfest, teaching, and evacuating New Orleans...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 1
Compact Discoveries 105: The Dream of America
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" is featured, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.

Bought by KISU, KRPS, KENW, WFIU, KALW and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 30
RN Documentary: Indian Courtesans
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A look at the surprising roots of the rich tradition of Indian classical vocal music.

Bought by WCOM


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1