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Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Queen
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for liturgical and secular music about, and by Jewish queens.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
220305 First Rock and Roll Song - Sandy Nelson and Glen Campbell As You've Never Heard Them
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Los Crazy Boys
The great rock drummer Sandy Nelson sound like a very traditional swing drummer and Glen Campbell sounds like a primitive surf band as our perspect...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 6
1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Andrew Hill's Black Fire LP
An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
2021-09-10 Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

Bought by KUHF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
210910: Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse, 9/10/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
PE 1951
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide

Bought by KEOS, KSRQ, KWMR, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WMOT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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Remembering the dead through food - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways - Decolonizing your diet

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WKMS, WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 6
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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Remembering the dead through food - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways - Decolonizing your diet

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WKMS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 13
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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The season of the Ghost Supper - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways

Bought by WGZS, WFIU, KHNS, KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Encounters at the Heart of the World (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
Encounters at the Heart of the World (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
We've Got To Get Out Of This Place (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Vietnam Special)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 17-42: From Myth To Man: Thelonious Monk, Part 2, 10/9/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We delve into the later years and music of the pianist's career with Monk biographer Robin D. G. Kelley.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
NL 17-41: From Man To Myth: Thelonious Monk, Part 1, 10/2/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at the pianist and composer's early life and career, including an interview with Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCNY, KVCR, KVSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 19
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to Vietnam

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Actor, Christopher Gerson in Richard III
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Christopher Gerson as Richard III, Credit: Benjamin Boucvalt
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a member of the acting company at Great River Shakespeare Festival. This individual has graced the stage...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 08:10
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1