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Filmspotting 500, Part 1 (08/01/14): Top 5 Films of the 'Filmspotting Era'
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
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ALL NEW! Nine years, four months and 20 days in the making... Michael Phillips from the Chicago Tribune and Slate's Dana Stevens join Adam and Jos...

Bought by WQCS, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WRIR, KSRQ, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Grace Notes
From: Capital Public Radio
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World War I was a real blow to the European musical community. They were utterly unprepared for the war’s cruelty, and composers found it difficult...

Bought by WVTF, KHNS, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Taking the fear out of Shakespeare
From: Pod Academy
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Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 16:14
Filmspotting 400 REBROADCAST (07/25/14): Top 5 Things the Movies Taught Us
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Josh Larsen, Michael Phillips, Dana Stevens and Adam Kempenaar
Filmspotting is gearing up for another live event--Filmspotting 500. With that in mind, we bring you this special rebroadcast of Filmspotting, whe...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSRQ, WRIR, WOUB, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Filmspotting 497 (07/04/14): Sacred Cow review of 1989's Batman, Top 5 Films of 1989
From: WBEZ
Caption: Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 reboot of Batman
Josh and Adam really carpe the diem this week: they find the holy grail, ask out Diane Cort and fake orgasms at the Katz's Deli — all on the hottes...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSRQ, WOUB, WRIR, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Filmspotting 488 (05/02/14): 'Sacred Cow' review of My Own Private Idaho, Top 5 Films of 1991
From: WBEZ
Caption: Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant's 1991 classic 'My Own Private Idaho'
Adam bites his tongue to avoid making any "Hudson Hawk" jokes as he and Josh go back to their high school days for a countdown of the Top 5 Films o...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WOUB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
From: Joyride Media
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Brand-new one hour special from Joyride Media takes in depth look at Roy Orbison's 1989 posthumous comeback album, "Mystery Girl."

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Harford Community Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Filmspotting 479 (02/28/14): Oscar: Who will win & who should win?; and a 'Sacred Cow' review of Blazing Saddles
From: WBEZ
Caption: The Oscars are coming!
Oscar expert, and senior editor at New York Magazine's Vulture, Kyle Buchanan joins Filmspotting's Adam and Josh to offer up the inside scoop on th...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WRIR, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 477 (02/14/14): Favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman scenes, Remembering PSH
From: WBEZ
Caption: Philip Seymour Hoffman in scene from 'Capote'
"Be honest and unmerciful. Good advice for a budding rock critic." Also a fine description of the actor who spoke those lines. Filmspotting devotes...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

Bought by WJCT and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence?

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
Filmspotting Ep 473 (01/17/14): Live 2013 Wrap Party, the Best of the Best
From: WBEZ
Caption: Filmspotting's live 2013 'Wrap Party'
With Filmspotting's best films of the year safely in the books - and, per tradition, etched in stone - Josh and Adam take a final look at the year ...

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Filmspotting ARCHIVE Show (01/10/14): Sacred Cow review of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Top 5 Films of 1981
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Harrison Ford in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The box office champ of 1981 -- and for many that year’s best loved film -- was Steven Spielberg’s "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Back in the fall of 2...

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Filmspotting Ep 472, Part 2 (12/27/13): Top 10 Films of 2013, Part 2
From: WBEZ
Caption: Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze's 'Her'
"What if they did -- just one year -- what if everyone stopped watching? ... You root for your favorites, you cry when they get killed. It's sick....

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Filmspotting Ep 472, Part 1 (12/20/13): Top 10 Films of 2013, Part 1
From: WBEZ
Caption: Scene from Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary, 'The Act of Killing'
Adam and Josh are making their lists, and checking them... obsessively! It's Best of the Year time on Filmspotting. Guests Michael Phillips (Chic...

Bought by WOUB, KSRQ, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Future of Higher Education (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the future of...

Bought by WCNY and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
Willie Nelson - To All the Girls
From: Joyride Media
Series: WILLIE NELSON: 80th Birthday Celebration
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Dolly Parton, Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and more great female singers share their insightful, deeply personal stories about Willie ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, KISU, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Art of Science
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Sometimes all it takes to get kids excited about science is a bag full of eyeballs.

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, and WTJU


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:48
  • Purchases: 3
First World War poetry with Dr Kate Macdonald
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Filmspotting Ep 400, June 8, 2012: Top 5 Things We Learned from the Movies
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
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Filmspotting celebrates its 400th episode in front of a live studio audience at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. Adam and Josh are joined by special guest...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Simon Graceland
From: Joyride Media
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Paul Simon recalls the creative sparks and controversies surrounding his landmark album, "Graceland"

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUKY and more


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 14
Joey Ramone...ya know?
From: Joyride Media
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Joey Ramone's close friends and family salute him by rocking out and finishing the tracks Joey left behind when he died.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, WSKG, WTJU, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Global Warming Reader
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill McKibben
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:40