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1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

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

PE 1951

From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era

Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide

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

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.

A Baroque Christmas in the New World

From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials

An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with festive music from 17th- and 18th-century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia perform...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KWIT, High Plains Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNIJ and more

Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times

From: The WFMT Radio Network

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

Episode #1: "Who the F is that?"

From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES

Caption: Anita Acosta & daughter Stephanie at home in Northern California., Credit: Marcos Nájera

Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...

Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

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

NL 17-42: From Myth To Man: Thelonious Monk, Part 2, 10/9/2017

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

We delve into the later years and music of the pianist's career with Monk biographer Robin D. G. Kelley.

NL 17-41: From Man To Myth: Thelonious Monk, Part 1, 10/2/2017

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

A look at the pianist and composer's early life and career, including an interview with Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley.

Hackademics 1

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

After years of unusual episodes dating back to her childhood, Anita went to the doctor and was told there was nothing medically wrong with her. "Sh...

James the Sixth Becomes James the First

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

How did the sixth James get first in line? It happened when his job description changed from Scottish king to monarch of all Britain...

Conquest upon the White Horse

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Dabbling in religious conspiracy, not even the pope can escape the commentary of this show...

700 Fathoms under the Sea

From: David Schulman

Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel

Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more

DJ Carl Sagan and His Golden Records

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

Before the launch of the Voyager probes, Carl Sagan was given the daunting task of assembling a guide to all things human. Something that would fit...

Engineering Gotham From Below

From: Bishop Sand

Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.

The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix

The Last of the Iron Lungs

From: Julia Scott

Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott

Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more

The Live Feed Presents: Corpse Reviver

From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed

We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Corpse Reviver. This group is a collaborative of bluegrass performers paying tribute to t...

Chicago Noodles

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Caption: Sterling Clarinet, Credit: http://www.clarinetpages.net

Among the many names adopted for the clarinet during the early years of jazz, the “noodle” is possible the most catchy. Feature are Johnny Dodds, B...

Bought by WDCB

This Week in Texas Music History: Damita Jo Deblanc

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who seemed to have an answer for everything.

This Week in Texas Music History: WBAP Barn Dance

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of January (1/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an early Texas radio show that helped launch a nat...

This Week in Texas Music History: Cloet Hammon

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an often-overlooked musician who helped lay the founda...

This Week in Texas Music History: July 4th Picnic

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a legendary Texas event that became a success almost ...

This Week in Texas Music History: The Eyes of Texas

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the second week of May (5/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the unlikely origins of one of the states best known...

This Week in Texas Music History: Birth of Zydeco

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the second week of August (8/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a historic recording session that helped set the s...

This Week in Texas Music History: Troy Floyd

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History

For the first week of January (1/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who performed in one of the first Africa...

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