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The Spanish Hour 2438: Spanish and Latin American Rarities
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Luxembourgian pianist Miguel Baselga
Hear famous Spanish and Mexican composers and their not so famous works. With pianist Miguel Baselga, The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and B...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WXXI Rochester, KRZA, KSJE, KENW and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 38
The Spanish Hour 2410: Paseo Latinoamericano
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

Bought by KUER, WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 22
The Spanish Hour 2327: Gems from Uruguay, Panamá, and Spain
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Uruguayan Composer Enrique Crespo
20th-century chamber music for winds and small orchestra from Panama and Uruguay.

Bought by KUCO, WRTI, KSJE, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 31
The Spanish Hour 2407: Classics from Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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20th-century South American classcis from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino to Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez to Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos.

Bought by KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KMUN, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
The Spanish Hour 2347: Contemporary Cuban String Quartets
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Havana String Quartet
A recital of 20th -century chamber music by Cuban-born composers performed by the Grammy Award-winning Havana String Quartet.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WRTI, KSJE, KVNO, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
The Spanish Hour 2436: Enfoque:: Arriaga, “The Spanish Mozart”
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: The Spanish Mozart" Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Spain's Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga was born 50 years to the day after the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like Mozart, Arriaga was a prodigy who ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA, KVNO, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
The Spanish Hour 2435: Music of 20th-century Spain
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Composer José Luis Greco, Credit: Sandra Gallardo
This week’s program comprises two works from opposite ends of the 20th century: the complete music to the 1919 ballet El Sombrero de tres picos (Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
The Spanish Hour 2432: La Zarzuela barroca / Baroque Zarzuelas
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Not to be confused with the popular operettas and lyric operas popular in Spain from the 1850s through the mid-20th century, the zarzuelas on this ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 47
The Spanish Hour 2424: Spanish Guitar Classics
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: "La jota" by Joaquín Sorolla , Aragón (1914)
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. Joaquín Rodrigo believed this to be the best definition ever given of the Spanish gu...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
The Spanish Hour 2422: Music for Two Guitars
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Chopin wrote that the only thing more beautiful than one guitar is two guitars. On today’s show, we prove him right.

Bought by WCQS, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, WRGY, KVNO and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
The Spanish Hour 2420: Guitar Potpourri
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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A guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCQS, KMUN, KUER, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 46
World in Progress 01/30/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Who decides what's healthy? Private donors impacting WHO's health policies - The current Corona virus outbreak highli...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Big Pond #50: Showing Our Colors
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #35: The Library and the Book
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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German and American libraries have influenced each other’s development tremendously over the last few centuries. During this time, the library has ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WNYO, KICI Iowa City, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Pond #29: Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
From: Goethe-Institut
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
Guinea Bissau Changes Currency (1996 BBC Focus on Africa)
From: Hechtech
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Sample BBC Reporting from the 1990s

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 06:24
Cambodia - The Little Bank that Grew (2010 PRI/BBC The World)
From: Hechtech
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It's one of Cambodia's few success stories. ACLEDA bank began as a micro-lender. Loaning tiny sums to allow Cambodians to open small businesses.Now...

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:02
World in Progress 03/15/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Myth and Challenges of the Nile river - The Nile River has been the life line for East Africa for thousands of years. A...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 3: We Eat The Seeds
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but could you recognize it in nature? In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-sha...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
India and Biotechnology
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Glenn Stone explores the controversies around genetically modified crops and the effects of biotechnology on farmers in India.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:30
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
In a Global Economy, What Happens to Elections?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Two political scientists explain how globalization is changing political parties and elections in the European Union and beyond.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 1
An Adult Choice? Corporate Responsibility and the Global Face of Tobacco
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An anthropologist examines the ethics of tobacco companies' practices around the world.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
Migration and Change in the Himalayan Highlands
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Geoff Childs, an anthropologist, examines the consequences of rapid population decline in ethnically Tibetan communities in Nepal.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:40