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Soli Deo Gloria
From: Kate O'Connell
Caption: The organ loft at St. Anne's Church Fall River, Massachusetts
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 2
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Letters of Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Shaun Usher
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Leslie M.M. Blume, Credit: photo by Billy Farrell
Try to imagine drinking your way through this book! That’s what author Leslie M. M. Blume has done in order to provide recipes for 144 cocktails.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:16
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Noodles
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sterling Clarinet, Credit: http://www.clarinetpages.net
Among the many names adopted for the clarinet during the early years of jazz, the “noodle” is possible the most catchy. Feature are Johnny Dodds, B...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Aleppo Codex
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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
Maya 2012 Revealed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Who were the mysterious Maya? Their predecessors were nomadic hunters. They followed game animals across the Bering Land Bridge, and populated the ...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
Cheese & Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Cheese & Culture
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheese-maker throughout world history and by und...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Scripting Jesus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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
Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
From: Open Source
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"
From: Open Source
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
3 Great American Voices
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: Julia Child
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 6
10 Greats You've Probably Never Heard
From: KUT
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Think you know music? NPR music critic Tom Moon has found ten artists you probably don't know...but should.

Bought by KLCC, KGLT, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:16
  • Purchases: 3
Debate: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky v. John Yoo "Law & the Courts during the Bush Administration." Program 2 of 2.
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
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This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 57:41
Debate: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky v. John Yoo "Law & the Courts during the Bush Administration." Program 1 of 2.
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
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This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 56:07
World War One and Armistice Day
From: Lester Graham
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Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, the day that World War I was to end. Here's one veteran's experiences.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WRVO Public Media, KUCB, 'The Sea', KRPS and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 33