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Velma Maia Thomas
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
The Beehive Amapolay Crafting Memory
From: sarah parker
Series: The Beehive
Caption: Fernando Castro and Carol Fernandez from Amapolay, Credit: AMapolay Facebook
This is an interview with artists Carol Fernandez and Fernando Castro of Amapolay Manufacturas Autonomas who are currently being featured in an exh...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
180526 Southern Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
180303 Emile Griffith, Music From Boston and Music About The Back Door
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23
RDD: A Special Guest
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week The Rough Draft Diaries will take a brief break in its line of connections to give you the opportunity to meet Amanda Lucidon. During Bar...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
Smart Talk - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary
From: WITF
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Take a trip down memory lane as Smart Talk celebrates Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’s 50th Anniversary.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WSKG, 90.5 WESA, and WPSU


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 4
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
Frankenfest! Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: Jim Armstrong, Andrea Wood, Anne-Marie Dunbar
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 26:23
The 2017 Musician Memorial Hour
From: Paul Ingles
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Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
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
A Holiday Duel (Hour 1): Presented by The Appetizer Radio Show
From: D. Grant Smith
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This season is filled with music that has been around for years and years, to the degree that most Christmas albums or collections all contain some...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Holiday Duel (Hour 2): Presented by The Appetizer Radio Show
From: D. Grant Smith
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Our special continues with a historic and introspective look at other holiday classics including one of the most historic Christmas songs of all-ti...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mysterium
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Seeing wrapped gifts under the tree for days or weeks before being allowed to open them adds to the anticipation, suspense, and ultimately the joy ...

Bought by KRPS, KRPS, KTXK, WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Nov 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
normal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
HIS BLUE HEAVEN: A FATS DOMINO APPRECIATION
From: Paul Ingles
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FATS DOMINO, the pioneering rock 'n' roll legend, passed away October 24, 2017 of natural causes at the age of 89. Music historian and documentari...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, WHRV, KUNM, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 19
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 17-40: That's Rich: The Buddy Rich Story, 9/25/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A centennial celebration of the iconic drummer, featuring the music of his big bands and small groups, as well as some of his vocal recordings.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
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

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