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Many public radio shows offer podcasts of their episodes. But what is a podcast, and what does it mean to "subscribe" to one? The hosts of Deemable...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WCWP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eileen's iPhone Battery Problems
Did upgrading to iOS 6 cause Eileen's iPhone's battery to drain faster, or was it something else? Ray and Tom find out. Take a listen to this week'...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WCWP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Big band hits on Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"One O'Clock Jump", "Take the A Train" and "Perdido" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 18th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour, selected...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare Jazz 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM recordings of early, forgotten Jazz pioneers.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Joe Bev remastered 1927 Rhapsody in Blue 78., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
Joe Bev hosts an hour of remastered 78s records, including George Gershwin with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra conducted by Nat Shilkret “Rhapsody in ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: John Pizzarelli, Credit: www.johnpizzarelli.com
Join Gary Vercelli for music and conversation with jazz musician and author John Pizzarelli.

Bought by KMUW and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ray and Tom join forces to become The Deemable Duo!
On this week's episode of Deemable Tech, Ray and Tom join forces as the Deemable Duo to seek out people who need tech help on the dark streets of T...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 54:52
Caption: Ray may not have written Johnny B Goode like Marty McFly, but he almost broke the space-time continuum.
On this week's episode of Deemable Tech, host Ray Hollister creates a temporal causal loop by leaving a voice mail for Deemable Tech and answering ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:52
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Join us as we speak with Dr. Peter Mitchell, Orthopedic Surgeon, specialized in foot and ankle. You see, I had this bunion and I… nevermind. He’s a...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Tennessee Williams
In this Views and Brews Remix on Becoming Tennessee Williams professor Charlotte Canning, joins director Norman Blumensaadt and actress Jennifer Un...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:52
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Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you! We’re all the way up to e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: The Missourians
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: One of the Wild Dogs, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Laikipia's pack of 40+ wild dogs was spotted by Tinai Kogo a driver for the Mpala Research Centre. He then explains the way in which they rear thei...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 07:22
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We’re very excited to have a return visit from our dear friend Glenn Berger PhD. Yes, he’s back for another discussion about us, our minds, how we ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Bessie Smith
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 58:54
Caption: Clarence Williams
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
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Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: Bashora in Amboseli, Credit: Ron Guijs
Bashora Galgalo is a 47 year old member of the Watha Tribe a minority indigenous hunter gather tribe from Kenya. He was born a hunterat Ndololo in ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:10
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Art Stewart Motown producer and engineer. Art worked with the crème of the Motown artists and producers.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 32:13
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If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: James P. Johnson
Frequently known as the "Father of Stride Piano," and "Grandfather of Hot Piano," James P. Johnson is probably better remembered as Thomas "Fats" W...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
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It’s another episode of The Mikie Show! I know, we were all hoping I’d say that. Well, I did. Join us as we speak with Kara Hartzler, an attorney w...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Edythe Turnham & her Band
The early history of  jazz often leaves out some very talented musicians simply because they didn’t move to Chicago or New York.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
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It’s a new episode the The Mikie Show! This time around we speak with Mary Hartman, PhD. A former dean of Douglass University, she is at the forefr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1