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For the fourth week of October (10/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a night club where a Texas icon was born.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of October (10/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a queen who helped launch a rock stars career.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of September (9/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer whose biggest hits were based on a most...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of July (7/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who played in one of the first racially in...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of June (6/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering musician who helped open doors for other...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of April (4/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a famous ballad singer who also blended honky tonk w...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of April (4/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who rode the rails to international stard...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a migrant farmworker who helped revolutionize conj...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of January (1/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering trumpeter who performed with some o...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of December (12/11): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented Texan who could sing, dance and mag...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a songwriter who entertained audiences in European ca...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of August (8/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneer of barrelhouse piano who started his car...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
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For the fourth week of January (1/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the most successful yet least well-known ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the third week of July (7/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who proved that it’s not such a small wor...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of May(5/18): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who was turned down by a number of night cl...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
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For the third week of July(7/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child prodigy who helped launch one of the state’s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Matti Friedman
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a THRILLING story about a book that meant everything. A thousand years ago the most per...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Dr. L. Michael White
Dr. L. Michael White challenges us to read the gospels as they were originally intended -- as performed stories of faith rather than factual histor...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Credit: Randy OHC
Nobleman, soldier, gambler, womanizer, priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus—and all this of just one man!

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 46:50
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Remembering: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Estaban, Phillis Wheatley, Bill Pic...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 37:38
Caption: Hallelujah Chorus, Credit: Paulo Ordoveza
An account of the life and works of George Frederick Handel, most notably the writing of "Messiah."

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 45:47
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WRPI and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8