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Calamity in Philadelphia
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
Folk Salad Airing 2-5-2023
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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We are celebrating Black History Month on Folk Salad with the first part of our show focusing on black Oklahoma musicians from the 1920's to the 60...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
December Birthdays (Vol.3)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A third tour-de-force of musicians that are known for their contributions to bluegrass, jazz and the sonic space in between who were born in the mo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
JazzGrass'o'Ween Vol. 3 - Halloween Special
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Another volume of only the most spooktacular Halloweenish bluegrass, jazz and the mysterious sounds betwixt, complete with Sound FX

  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
Ladies' Choice (Vol.7)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A fresh two hour set of all-women musicians who play bluegrass, jazz and/or that visionary continuum of sounds in between

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
August Birthdays (Vol.2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A second tour-de-force of songs recorded by bluegrass, jazz and related musicians who were born in the month of August.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
War of the Welles - the 80th Anniversary Edition
From: john rabe
Caption: Album art for 75th Anniv, Credit: Michael Uhlenkott/Unknown
80 years ago, Orson Welles really did scare the pants off the nation with his radio broadcast "War of the Worlds." This is the backstory, from docu...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 49:29
  • Purchases: 3
2018 Crown Guitar Festvial Special Part One
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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Highlights to preview the 2018 Crown Guitar Festival and Workshop in Bigfork, Montana.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bruch-off!
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Joshua Bell's new release, Credit: Sony Classical
We’ll hear interpretations from Rachel Barton Pine and Joshua Bell playing the same Bruch Violin Concerto on this episode of What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KWAX, WETS and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford
(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Stuck at Square One: The Remedial Education Trap
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap, Credit: Lila Cherneff
A system meant to give college students a better shot at succeeding is actually getting in the way of many, costing them time and money and taking ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, KOSU, KFCF FM, WSKG and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Profile of a musician in a refugee camp in Kenya.
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: Scisa Rumenge at home in Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
Scisa Rumenge is a Congolese musician living in Kakuma Refugee camp in the north of Kenya. He taught himself to play guitar in the camp and sings a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
From Cages To Conservation - American Zoos: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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Each year, more people visit zoos than all major sporting events combined. But while top zoos say they're at the forefront of wildlife education a...

Bought by KWIT, North State Public Radio, KGOU, WNYC, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Club 47/Passim
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Recorded at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square on the 50th anniversary of the day the Club 47 opened in 1958, the program (in the best of folk t...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMNF, Chris Boros, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2008
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 4
Chief Bangin Instrumental 2
From: Jeffery Jackson
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Instrumental w/ a Nice New York Sound

  • Added: Jun 17, 2007
  • Length: 01:46
RN Documentary: Modern Day Mongolia
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Mongolia in the 21st century must choose which aspects of modernity and tradition will shape its identity in the 21st century.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFUV


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
World Tour Radio presents Music of Morocco
From: Andrew Reissiger
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Moroccan Amazigh Music, Arabic/Indigenous politics of North Africa

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and KTNA


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Promise of Hydrogen - two parts
From: Cynthia Graber
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As the world grows more concerned about the cost and supply of oil and about climate change, Iceland is beginning an ambitious proejct to wean itse...

Bought by KVNF and CKMO


  • Added: Nov 22, 2004
  • Length: 30:38
  • Purchases: 2