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Caption: Matthew Zapruder, poet
Matthew Zapruder dedicates a graduation address to poet and fiction writer Denis Johnson who died in May, 2017.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Music from the great blues singer and songwriter (from the 1920s through the 1960s) Ida Cox, and contemporary covers of her songs by Cécile McLorin...

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRGY, KKRN, WMHT and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex - an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data.
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Artist concept of SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch., Credit: SpaceX
Mat’s first-ever four-way conversation with colleagues Jason Davis, Casey Dreier and Emily Lakdawalla provides their predictions of space milestone...

Bought by KDNK, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
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Welcome to 2018! We've got new music from Brenda Kahn and the Jare Bears and Shawn Colvin, plus much more!

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Cleared for takeoff in a new broadcast year is Charles McPherson on sax with the first flight out, the descent tracked by pianist Russell Schmidt. ...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMOT, Troon Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Constellations | Very Quiet, Credit: Flickr
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore how the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival has challenged mainstream cultur...

Bought by WMMT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on The Score, with Edmund Stone, some of the best movie depictions of dinosaurs.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on The Score, with Edmund Stone, some of the best movie depictions of dinosaurs.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Caption: John “Curly” Seckler (1919-2017), helped set the classic bluegrass sound with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys following World War II.  Seckler died at age 98 in late December, 2017, and we have an appreciation on this ATBR episode. , Credit: The Penny Parsons Company, used with permission
We enter 2018 with a satisfying selection of old-time, bluegrass, traditional country and gospel music – some standards you’ve heard, and some fasc...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
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Episode topics: Music therapy and the healing power of pets.

Bought by WNYO and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week we hear from a pro classical guitarist and how the instrument is used throughout rock.

Bought by WOSU, KSKQ, KTRL, WOUB, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin tries to outrun a kid-eating witch with a couple of adventurous siblings in Sarah Mlynwoski's Sugar and Spice.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 15

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
From: Kim Clark
Series: Dig!
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Tracks from 1968 albums by the Sapphire Thinkers, the Tangerine Zoo, the Growing Concern, and Spooky Tooth, a 1967 single by CCR when they were kno...

Bought by KMXT, Delmarva Public Media, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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While enjoying his bath, Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician, suddenly solved a problem about the displacement of water. In his excitement,...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, WRGY, and KMFA


  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Topical themes tonight ranging from the "Henry" of Etta James' "Dance With Me Henry" to Cleopatra songs and another absurdist radio musical. My fa...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:33:08
Caption: Weather Vain, Credit: Seth Shostak
History is replete with attempts to control the weather, but we’d settle for an accurate, seven-day forecast. Find out how sophisticated technolog...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 21
Caption: Bucky Pizzarelli
(Air Dates: January 2 - 8) On this week's archive episode of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the music of Bucky Pizzarelli with Bucky himself and hi...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Weekly logic, word, letter, or math puzzle. This is #243, for air the week of January 1st. This week's theme is new year: literature with numbers i...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
"Juke In The Back" kicks off 2018 with a profile of Combo Records, a small, independent Los Angeles record label that only scored one national hit,...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, 90.5 WSNC, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:34