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A More Perfect Union: A Musical Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 1-Hour Version
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime championing her two passions: equal rights and classical music, often referencing the si...

Bought by WABE, KTEP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 19
Self Discovery, Spirituality, Happiness, Fulfillment, Living out your Life’s purpose and Soul Music with Josh Miles of JM and The Sweets.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Soul Music with Josh Miles of JM and The Sweets. In this first ever radio interview and performance with Josh Miles we discuss Self Discovery, Spi...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Latinx Farm Workers to Farm Owners
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As a generation of white family farmers ages out of the business of farming, a rising cohort of Latinx workers stands ready to take up the slack.

Bought by KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mahler's First Symphony
From: Aaron Cohen
Series: Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler
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This episode focuses on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major (1888), taking listeners back to the work’s origins in the street songs, folk tunes and ...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMNR, WGTE Public Media, Classic107.3, and WMNR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating an American holiday marking the formal end of slavery.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
'Renaissance Fable For The World' 21
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: Malatesta, Credit: Piero della Francesca
This show is a 5 minute spoken word program that utilizes renaissance music to explore some of the fables of Bernadino Baldi.

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 12
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'Death And The Miser', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program is on of 76 in this series. We explore more of the fables of a great renaissance man...Bartolomeo Scala through spoken word a...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
NL 20-12: Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s, 3/16/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Prayer For Snow
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: On The Trail of the White Hopper, Credit: Brian Aust
For when the bleariness of a landscape devoid of snow gets you in the mood to summon the glory of a white winter....

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
Revolutionary Love: An Interview With Rev. Jacqueline Lewis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As 2019 comes to a close, Laura speaks with Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City's East Village. Rev. Jacqui's pu...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Whale Fall
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: Screenshot from Nautilus Livestream, October 2019, Credit: Nautilus
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 11:46
New Beginnings
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I got shot two times, and i walked out of Shock Trauma three hours later. It was made clear to me that my work wasn't done.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Special: Our Economy, For and By The People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hal Prince-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Hal Prince & Stephen Sondheim
A short tribute to the late Prince of Broadway with music from many of the shows he produced and directed with interview clips and memories of a tr...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:15
Wunderbar Together - Two German songs that went around the world
From: Arndt Peltner
Series: Wunderbar Together
Caption: Peat Bog Soldiers / Moorsoldaten
During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
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
Spring Bird Spectacle
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Blackburnian Warbler, Credit: Brian Aust
A 2-hr tour of spring birdsongs with appropriate musical accompaniment of bluegrass, jazz and that shapeshifting sonic spectrum which lies between....

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:40
Dance as World-Changing Movement: Alice Sheppard and STREB
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, two artists who expand our ideas about beauty, risk, mobility, and inclusion. Wheelchair dancer and esteemed choreographer Alice Sheppar...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Winter Solstice Special
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Solstice Sunset over Lake Champlain & the Adirondack Mountains, Credit: Brian Aust
A full two-hour set of bluegrass, jazz and new acoustic/jamgrass/jazzgrass tunes specially tailored for the shortest day of the year, with a detour...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:40
  • Purchases: 1
Born in a Tornado
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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You can’t help it if you were born in a tornado. You’re going to have to learn how to fly.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
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Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00

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