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Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" celebrates the coming Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day with songs and remarks extolling equal rights and affirming a fundamental a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022-12-25 How Relevant Is Jesus?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we know anything about Jesus' views on contemporary moral issues?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-44: Jazz Haunts for Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Smoke dreams, sorcerors, ghosts, and stalking monsters! We'll experience those paranormal jazz encounters with those spectors through the music of ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Get Right With The Universe
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
We're approaching Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, your official opportunity to get right with the universe.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
2022-06-19 The Changing Face of Antisemitism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Where did antisemitism come from—is it racism? Religious bigotry? Something else?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2225: The Changing Face of Antisemitism, 6/21/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Where did antisemitism come from—is it racism? Religious bigotry? Something else?

  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Celebrating Pride Month
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Pride Month with an eclectic hour of music written and performed by LGBTQ+ Jews.

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WCQS, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Iris Chen
On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KUT, KUHF, KRVS, New England Public Media, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KVSC, KSKA, KMUN, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #349 (Optional Hour #3 of "Care for the Planet Special")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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A 10,000 GOOD SONGS SPECIAL that can be aired on Earth Day or any time. An hour full of musicians singing about caring for the planet. Songs includ...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #348 (Optional Hour #2 of "Care for the Planet Special")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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A 10,000 GOOD SONGS SPECIAL that can be aired on Earth Day or any time. An hour full of musicians singing about caring for the planet. Songs incl...

Bought by KLCC, KUHF, KFSK, and WHRV


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Oh Haec: This is the day the Lord has made
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Solidarity With Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents secular and religious Jewish music from Ukraine in solidarity with all of the Ukrainian people.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04