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Filmspotting 912 (03/17/23): The Big Lebowski at 25 / '60s Madness / Rodeo / Sansho the Bailiff
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 'The Big Lebowski' at 25
The Coen Brothers followed up their Oscar-winning "Fargo" with a stoned, shaggy-dog film noir riff, "The Big Lebowski." The box office bomb went on...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTXK, KRSC and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
2023-03-17 A Global Just Transition – For Whom?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
230317: A Global Just Transition – For Whom?, 3/17/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Trobairitz: The Women Troubadours
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Filmspotting 910 (03/03/23): 2023 Oscars Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 2023 Oscar Picks
Adam and Josh compare Oscar ballots with the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, sharing picks for who will win, who should win, and who should hav...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
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
Filmspotting 909 (02/24/23): Top 5 Films of 1973 / 1960s Madness Play-Ins
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Top 5 Films of 1973 / 1960s Madness Play-Ins
Coming on the heels of the era-defining “The Godfather” in ’72, the 1973 movie year had a lot to live up to. But if Adam and Josh’s Top 5 of 1973 i...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 908 (02/17/23): Top 5 Magic-est Mike Moments / Quantumania / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Top 5 Magic-est Mike Moments, Quantumania / 'Magic Mike’s Last Dance'
With Steven Soderbergh’s sly, sexy, and exuberant contribution to the musical genre coming to a close with the release of the third and, presumably...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Winona Art Walk Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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From paintings to prints, from wood work to writing, there is no limit to what you can find at the Winona Art Walk. Hosted across the city of Winon...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 24:50
Filmspotting 907 (02/10/23): The Enduring Power of Hitchcock’s “Psycho” / Oscars Homework
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: The Enduring Power of Hitchcock’s “Psycho”
After a string of lush, star-filled productions in the ’50s, Alfred Hitchcock went small and sinister with "Psycho," which went on to become Hitchc...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Ekphrasis Poetry Reading
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a program of readings and conversation at Commerce Bank's The Box Gallery. Poets Wyatt Townley, H.C. Palmer, Brian ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist and Essayist Russell Banks
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: (Photo by Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0)
The late novelist, retired Princeton professor, and mountain climber, Russell Banks is the author of the 2021 novel, FOREGONE. In this classic 201...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Filmspotting 905 (01/27/23): 2023 Movie Preview / Skinamarink
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 2023 Movie Preview
Gerwig, Nolan, Wes, Scorsese. The new movie year is full of promise. For their '23 Movie Preview, Adam and Josh look to avoid getting burned by the...

Bought by WMTNradio, KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
2023-01-27 Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20230127: Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea, 1/27/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. . Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Filmspotting 904 (01/20/23): Scenes of the Year (w/ Griffin Newman, Dana Stevens, Alison Willmore and Matt Singer)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Filmspotting 2022 Wrap Party, Live from Brooklyn
Delayed nearly three years by the pandemic, but, in many ways, 18 years in the making, the show's live NYC debut was worth all the waiting. Joined ...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
2023-01-13 REWIND: Coping with Climate Through Music
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20230113: REWIND: Coping with Climate Through Music , 1/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Filmspotting REVISITED (01/06/23): Koganada (After Yang) / Glass Onion
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
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This week, Filmspotting offers up a lookback at two meaty pieces from the past year. Starting things off, Adam and Josh revisit their review of the...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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