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Unveiling The Ancestors
From: Anne Hoffman
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Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:10
Everyday
From: Scott Wen
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A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Time (Vol.2) ~ aka New Year's Daze Vol.7
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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So many songs about time, but alas only a two hour frame to present this set of bluegrass, jazz and musically related material that reckon with it ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:44
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 38:58
Christmas Special #6
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Herb & Frieda Aust on a long-ago Christmas Eve in the Township of Washington, NJ, Credit: Brian Aust
The latest in a series of Christmas shows spanning six years with nary a repeated song to be heard, featuring the finest bluegrass, jazz and sonica...

Bought by WVRU


  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 13: 75th Birthday - Part 3
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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An encore presentation from Classic 1073.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:37
The New Silence: a poem for the new climate
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
Trans in the Eyes of God: Joy Ladin, Mesma Belsare and Michelle Brooker
From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Trans in the Eyes of God
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Religion isn't always a welcoming place for trans people, but we hear the stories of some who have found a place for themselves in Judaism, Hinduis...

Bought by WPSU


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Trans in the Eyes of God: Toni Newman
From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Trans in the Eyes of God
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In our new special series, we hear the personal stories of transgender people of faith and where they are finding spiritual homes among America's r...

Bought by WPSU


  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Voicemail Valentine
From: Radio Diaries
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
JerryGrass Vol. 13
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: David Grisman & Jerry Garcia circa 1973
Celebrating the life & music of the late 'grate' Jerry Garcia.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:40
Nether
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I love my city, and I rep it to the death. But at the same time, I’m a white boy in a black neighborhood.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Birth
From: Ahri Golden
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From award-winning producers Ahri Golden + Tania Ketenjian, Birth is an audio mosaic that explores practices and perceptions of birth in America. ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 56:27
  • Purchases: 1
Welcoming the Stranger
From: Interfaith Voices
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President Trump's travel ban is on ice, but the questions it raises--who’s in, and who’s out-- well, sacred texts have been looking at that forever...

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 4: There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Elizabeth Wenkuna and her mother outside the jail, Credit: George Lavender
All prisoners have the right to marry, but there are lots of restrictions. You can't exchange rings or request a special ceremony, there's thick gl...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 3
Slime Style
From: Todd Whitney
Caption: Mike hitting a boardslide, Credit: Josh Chapman
Mike Riordan and Josh Chapman commemorate their friendship and stave off drug addiction by creating skateboarding videos. Listen and meet an artist...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KALW


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 2: Tradition!
From: Mother
Series: MOTHER: A PODCAST
Caption: MOTHER: A PODCAST, Credit: Logo created by Justin Schnarr (justinschnarr.com/).
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Icy Winds of Lovecraft (Promo)
From: Iain Wilson
Caption: Antarctic explorers discover a creature in a cavern, Credit: Astounding Tales, February 1936
On the 35th Anniversary of Alien, "The Icy Winds of Lovecraft" looks at how Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing were both influenced by the strang...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: :58
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part I
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Gunther Schuller is a composer, conductor, horn virtuoso, jazz historian and critic who had the nerve and the authority years ago to decree that “a...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 36:26
  • Purchases: 5
Heartsongs with Ken McCullough
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On Thursday, February 13th, the lobby of the Winona County History Center was packed full of eager people waiting to hear love poems penned and del...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Simple Life: Swinomish Story
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: At the Canoe Journey, Credit: Photos courtesy of Jack Storm, used with permission. Jack Storms/StormsPhoto.com
In the Pacific Northwest, Native Americans honor their cultural heritage by participating in an annual canoe journey. A Swinomish elder shares his ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
New Year's Mummers Day Parade
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Mummers Day Parade, Credit: Rebecca Moon
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice. It’s un...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 23:29
NOLA's Petals
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
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This story is about a New Orleans native who leaves the city after Hurricane Katrina, only to find his way back...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 10, 2013
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
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