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The Big Speakeasy: Jazz and Prohibition
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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America in the 1920s: Wall Street was on the rise, cops were on the take, jazz was in the air, and alcohol had been banished—but it certainly hadn’...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WVAS, KLCC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
One for Marian: Marian McPartland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • 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
2 Years: Diaries of a Divided Nation
From: KCRW
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Two Years: Diaries of a Divided Nation is a people’s history of the forty-fifth presidency, recorded in real time, over the first two years of the...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., American Voices, KALW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 26
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
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Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Husayn Means Beauty: The Attraction of the Seventh Century Martyr (1 of 2) (ENCORE)
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 15-20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine each year. Part 1 o...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
A Voicemail Valentine
From: Radio Diaries
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
Prisoners of War
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Inmates at LBJ
During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon called Long Binh Jail. But LBJ wasn’t for capt...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 18:19
  • Purchases: 1
'The Stone Age' Program 226
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This one hour program is presented with the idea of airing authentic and original music from the electric era of the 60's and 70's...Many styles ar...

Bought by KEOS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KEOS, KEOS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
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...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 13:29
Anybody but Ranalli?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
Bo Ambrozewicz
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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He's running for El Dorado County Supervisor, District 4 (so say goodbye to the incumbent while you can)...

  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:50:30
Vegas Vic: Salt Lake City Native
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 12:37
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
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
NL 18-08: Say It Loud: Black-Pride Soul Jazz, 2/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the messag...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
2017-All Mixed Up (Part Two)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Dick Gregory
The retrospective of 2017 continues with mixes from Charlottesville to Washington with music and emotions from a turbulent year

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:03
  • Purchases: 1
Star of Bethlehem
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The star... the origin and history of the Christmas tree... and oh, it's a wonderful life!

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:27:46
NL 17-52: The Night Before Christmas: Holiday Jazz, 12/18/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Holiday jazz from Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Louis Armstrong, Duke Pearson, Frank Sinatra, and others.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2

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