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Notes On Spring - A Seasonal Music Special
From: Charlie Warren
Series: "Notes On" - Seasonal Specials
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An assuring hour of music and information about the promising resurgence of spring, including rare facts about the featured music and the reasons f...

Bought by WWNO, KFCF FM, KTSW 89.9, WGTE Public Media, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 26
Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Perfect for Women's History Month programming. "Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects," a new special from The Kitchen Sisters, h...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM, WILL, KALW, WRGY, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 54
Self Discovery, Spirituality, Happiness, Fulfillment, Living out your Life’s purpose and Soul Music with Josh Miles of JM and The Sweets.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Soul Music with Josh Miles of JM and The Sweets. In this first ever radio interview and performance with Josh Miles we discuss Self Discovery, Spi...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 1
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating an American holiday marking the formal end of slavery.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Nightfly #2015.08 - Black History Month - February 23-March 1, 2015
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul (formerly The Nightfly with Sanguine Fromage)
Caption: Nina Simone
We feature funk, soul, and jazz designed to inspire and empower from Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Gil Scott-Heron, interspersed with the voices ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WJAB, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Highlights From The 2014 Montclair Jazz Festival
From: Jim Luce
Caption: S. Epatha Merkerson
Produced by JAZZ HOUSE KIDS, a nonprofit jazz education and performance organization, the 2014 MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL features Christian McBride, ...

Bought by KCSM, WJAB, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 3
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
05 Lubliner Nign
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:16
04 Lustig Zayn
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
03 Simkes Hanefesh
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
02 Sofia's Song
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
01 Shtayn Gart's
From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:55
The Witches of Lublin
From: Sue Zizza
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(this 58:30 program is the final version) Lublin, Poland, 1797: While they prepare for Passover, a family of Jewish women klezmer musicians struggl...

Bought by WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Catskill, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 25
One Giant Leap: How We Saw It
From: Camille Dixon
Series: How We Saw It
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On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (July 20, 2009) this one-hour documentary will celebrate the event through the eyes of those ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:03
Peace Talks Radio: The Peace Message in Star Trek (29:00 Version)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Capt. James Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Credit: www.startrek.com
PEACE TALKS RADIO, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution, explores the peace message in the hugely popular original 1960's T...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSFR


  • Added: Apr 19, 2009
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Alutiiq Masks - Sharing HIstory
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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details the long-sought return of the Alutiiq Masks from France to Kodiak. AK.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 06:09
An Hour with Don Ho (58:59 or 59:59)
From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Series: Asian-American Heritage Special
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This one-hour interview & music with Don Ho in Hawaii is the last he granted before giving his farewell Aloha in April 2007! Your licensing of thi...

Bought by WLNZ


  • Added: May 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Church Music
From: Charles Lane
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A documentary exploring why we sing music at church and what it does for individuals and communities.

Bought by WORT, North Country Public Radio, WVAS, WGBH Radio Boston, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 38
The Blind Boys of Alabama In Concert
From: WFUV
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The Blind Boys of Alabama perform a live concert at the Cutting Room in Manhattan.

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KMUW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2008
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 21
Eat Your Greens 5: The Tri Community Festival at the Fairview Garden
From: Maeve Conran
Series: Eat Your Greens
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To celebrate a successful growing season, three communities gather to celebrate the Fairview Community garden.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:53