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Preparing for Passover
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for the Passover holiday with a musical seder ceremony featuring tunes from around the globe.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Kali and Diwali
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chinna Masta Kali, Credit: Sandip Roy
While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Memorial Day - Honor the Military Dead, and Some Others Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
53rd Earth Day
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music from around the globe urging us to approach the natural world with gemilut chassadim – or loving kindne...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Honoring the Soldiers
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music honoring our troops and urging an end to the killing.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Passover Seder Sounds
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for our annual global musical seder.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Party Like It's 360 BCE!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" parties like it's 360 BCE with a global Jewish playlist celebrating the approaching Purim holiday.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
210103 The Covid Christmas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: I purchased this Corona when I first read about the Corona Virus making it to the USA. My mom was inoculated with the Covid vaccine on December 31st, 2021. I will drink this Corona after I'm inoculated.
A touch of retrospection and melancholy as we live out our pandemic. Audio postcards of the first and hopefully the last Covid Christmas. (And...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:51
  • Purchases: 2
Holocaust Memories (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Everyone remembers things differently. With Good Reason takes you to Washington D.C., Poland and Jerusalem to reveal the different ways people in ...

Bought by KECG, KWIT, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Memorial Day with Lefty Lee
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today is Memorial Day. So happy Memorial Day. Many people have the day off work today and many will be spending time with friends and family. But w...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2019
  • Length: 15:53
Happy Independence Day India!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A store in India selling Independence Day memoribilia, Credit: Sandip Roy
Happy Independence Day India! Sandip Roy reflects on the changes that India has seen in the last 71 years.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Memorialize
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Music gives us a chance to express ourselves when we need help dealing with difficult emotions. It gives our minds a place to face all of the feeli...

Bought by WVIA, KTXK, Interlochen Public Radio, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
The Gathering Place at Thanksgiving
From: Wind & Rhythm
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The hymn “We Gather Together” was written in 1597 to celebrate the Dutch victory over the Spanish in a war of national liberation against the King ...

Bought by WVIA, RadioStPete Florida, KCME, WVIA, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 14
WWII Life in the Navy
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Joining the US Navy at 18, John Baker was called to duty after the United States had been fighting in WWII for three years. His two year experience...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:02
A Self-Evident Truth
From: Wind & Rhythm
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, t...

Bought by KTXK and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Memories of Heroes
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Many Americans celebrate their Memorial Day holiday by relaxing, spending time with family, catching up on projects, grilling out or going to the p...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio, WVIA, WVIA, 'The Sea', KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
A Birthday for Our Country
From: Wind & Rhythm
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The words of the Declaration of Independence are some of the most eloquent words ever written. John Adams and the committee of five who drafted it ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 24, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Give War and Peace a Chance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 8
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Troops aboard the General Nelson M. Walker, Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project
Sound-rich stories from and about a Vietnam War-era troopship, in the voices of people whose lives were affected by the journey to war.

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WGCU, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 29
Latkes & Turkey: A Holiday Special
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, two holidays which intersect this year. Our guests are Mark Binder, author of "A Hanukkah Presen...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz-O-Rama #17: "Al Jolson Meets Cab Calloway"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "Al Jolson Meets Cab Calloway", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"Swanee", "Hi De Ho Man" and "Avalon" will be among the 78 RPM records (and movie soundtracks) heard on the 16th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama H...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 57:07
  • Purchases: 3
Patriotism: Unquestioned Commitment or Dangerous Justification
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Can you acknowledge dissenters as patriots? Can you dissent and still sing the national anthem wholeheartedly? Can you live in a middle ground?

Bought by WEZU and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
One Last Word: Signs
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2010
  • Length: 04:56
Inauguration Day 2009
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1