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"Speculations on the Antiquity of Human Consciousness” by Dennis McKenna
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. The event’s keynote lec...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
The Haunting of the Five and Dime
From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show
Caption: John Davey on The Red Jacket Jamboree, Credit: Nate Bett
Join the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests: singer-songwriter John Davey and author T.Marie Bertineau for a special that explores the myth...

Bought by Southern Branch Bluegrass and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Soli Deo Gloria
From: Kate O'Connell
Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 2
Ballet Morsel 032019 Musical Transition
From: Paul Messing
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A short (:12) musical transition

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: :12
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Season 2 Trailer
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
Caption: The Nocturnists, Credit: Lindsay Mound
Season 2 of The Nocturnists, hosted by physician Emily Silverman, explores stories from the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 01:23
180728 Before the "After the Flood"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A live broadcast from after the future floods and disasters of New Orleans. Yeah, I know a bit too cryptic but it works on radio.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:07
Band Box Records of Denver, Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily be...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:39:22
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
"Shorty" The Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: From the Theater District (of Your Mind)
In a theatrical musical, songs break out during the story line. In a radio musical, a story line breaks out during a set of music. In the radio...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:38
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fairy Food: The Little People's Potato
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: neighborhood-harvested "fairy" potatoes, Credit: Carla Seidl
A fairy potato treasure hunt incorporating elements of Cherokee, Celtic, and Chinese folklore and a bit o' magic.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Chicken Whisperer
From: Andrew Davis
Series: Claim Your Fame
Caption: Andy Schneider hosted a lecture and book signing of "The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens" on Sunday at Tractor Supply Co. Schneider is the host of an internet radio show called "Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer" and the editor-in-, Credit: Katie Bell, the Missourian
Andy Schneider IS the Chicken Whisperer. He doesn't profess to talk to chickens, but he does know everything you need to raise backyard poultry AND...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 1
Letters of Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Shaun Usher
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
Leaving Los Angeles
From: Alison Byrne
Caption: Leaving Los Angeles, Credit: Alison Byrne
Personal Essay on working odd jobs to get by in Los Angeles, trying to find creative and fulfilling work, getting older, and, finally, leaving Holl...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:53
  • Purchases: 2
Criminal: Hour-Long Special #1
From: Criminal
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Four stories of people who have done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in-between.

Bought by WYSO, WUNC, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 7
Nothing Personal: A Novel of Wall Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Mike Offit
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 22:34
Holy Matter (A JFK Mystery)
From: WUSF
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Four days before the JFK assassination we find ourselves embroiled in the affairs of a mob family.

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Race and America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Professor Lawrence Blum
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 118: Tin Roof Project with Andrew Kilgore
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: Photographer Andrew Kilgore
On this month's Tin Roof Project, it's acclaimed photographer Andrew Kilgore telling his own true story.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Volunteers hunt for moose bones on Isle Royale (Part 2)
From: Michigan Radio
Series: Lessons from Isle Royale's Wolves & Moose
Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)
From: Michigan Radio
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat : Bill Caldwell - "Dog Days"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Joni Mitchell
The story of Joni Mitchell is as convoluted and compelling as her music. She eluded industry clichés, spoke and composed in philosophical twists, a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1