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HOUR ONE: "Journeys Through Gender" - Once upon a time there were two genders. He and She. Not anymore. So what are your pronouns? HOUR TWO: "The...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
Caption: Eddie Dugosh
Tonight we talk to the first time listener to explore their feelings on hearing music they've never heard by musicians they've never heard of yet t...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Bobby Page and the Riff Raffs
An inspired, heartfelt show. Based around an essay on radio as art and art as both a personal way of making a better life and civilization's savio...

Bought by KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WQCS, KPRG, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:55:05
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leroy Abernathy
The early songs featuring harmony were gospel but harmony soon wandered into popular songs with the sisters/brothers/twins group such as The Mills ...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Andy Kerr Of More Science High School at His Pep Rally
Live performances are out and putting a record on the hi fi has been obsolete for decades so what's replaced the joy of music? Radio. Music radi...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:37
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jesse Hawthorne, The Midnight Creeper
Jesse Hawthorne used to do the Friday midnight to Saturday 5am shift (a day before my show) and the Sunday morning gospel show. That's a grueling ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:54:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Goree Girls
Yep. She's doing some work on songs today.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:02
Caption: Foggy New Orleans
The last 15 minutes of the show is about you at four in the morning. Before that, music from drums made of water, bad song requests, leaving the g...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 03:35:40
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Songs about that melancholy late night in New Orleans and then too many songs about lollipops ... Oh just try listening, it works.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:35:55
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New Orleans music and Mardi Gras is a reflection of us. We who are New Orleans.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:50:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Long title and a winding story that includes mushroom farms, shotguns, and plenty of electrified land mines all leads to Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:59:27
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This week, we bring you that funky gentleman from the Ninth Ward, Jon Cleary, who talks about his native England, his grandmother, the piano back h...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 52:02

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 03:08:00
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Dennis Roberts drops in program an hour of his favorite radio show hosts and the music they unfurled for him. Dennis is a long time radio show ho...

  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 01:55:53
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To stay in New Orleans is to abandon health, wealth and reasonableness in favor of enjoying the moment. Living the non-commercial life of quality ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:23
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23
Caption: Tom Sancton
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 52:00
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We can fall deeply, madly in love with late-night radio. This doesn't happen with any of the visual mediums. Never with a screen. Thing is, radi...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:05
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Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: :45
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio has been a tonic for almost half-a-century. I have radio obligations to fu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:52:34
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It was a classic New Orleans ad hoc lunch at the corner bar, three hours of talk, laugh, drink, eat and repeat. Bar owner, Donna and Charlie plus ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:24:04
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A seven hour show with a narrative about meritocracy - public radio, democracy, decency versus the opposition - unearned privilege. This narrative...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:49:57
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“As a 32-year-old younger Catholic nun, I’ve been to countless funerals of our aging sisters. However, nothing could have prepared me for the death...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 09:31