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2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
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The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Neuroscience of Peacemaking
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We talk with two experts about how advances in the field of neuroscience may transform conflict resolution on an individual and global scale.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KRZA, and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz at Studio Z Concert Feb 27 Features Both the Expected and Unexpected
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: J.T. Bates, Credit: Andrea Canter
A mixture of the expected and unexpected. You could say that about all the music at the monthly Jazz at Studio Z series in St Paul. This Saturday i...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
The Meaning of Science
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tim Lewens
From the origins of human culture to space exploration, the achievements of science have been extraordinary.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top Peacemaking Communication Themes
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Common themes that Peace Talks Radio guests have cited as keys to peaceful and productive communication in conflict scenarios.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - John Oates - 620
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Music and conversation with singer songwriter John Oates, who along with his musical partner Daryl Hall form the most successful pop music duo in h...

Bought by KGLT and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
WorldCanvass: Encountering New Technology (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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We live in an age of new technology, expecting any day to wake up to yet another jaw-dropping device or a discovery that simply changes everything ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2016
  • Length: 24:09
EP 1 — The Sharing Economy?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 2
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2015)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of the many seasons of programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-violent ...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1610. Program for Mar 5-12, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show open has plenty of new bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass poses the question of whether Bill Monroe’s early bluegrass represented innovation ...

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE, WAMU and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
The Graydon Peterson Quartet in a Night of New Jazz at Jazz Central
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Graydon Peterson at Crooner's, Credit: Andrea Canter
Graydon Peterson is a local jazz composer who started out as a classical musician. But as a student, he was drawn to jazz, not only as a bassist, b...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Musician's Spotlight - Kronos Quartet- 618
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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David Harrington, the founding member of the pioneering, genre mixing, multi award winning Kronos Quartet reflects on the remarkable and still ongo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
We Are the Bomb: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin Talk Activism and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Boots RIley, Credit: http://nycsocialist.org/
Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 13:30
Bluegrass Review #1609. Program for Feb 27-March 4, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There always seems to be a trickle of songs about working, and we play 3 good ones at the beginning of the show. Our Gem of Bluegrass concerns blue...

Bought by WOUB, KBRP Community Radio, WAMU, WDSE, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Integration Nation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Susan Eaton
Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue. In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1608. Program for Feb 20-26, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Laurie Lewis’ new Cd pays tribute to Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard. One of the Hazel and Alice themes was singing traditional songs. We play one b...

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WAMU, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1606. Program for Feb 6-12, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show today, we acknowledge that bluegrass specializes in all kinds of “unhappy” including breakups. We play a couple of stylistically ...

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WVRU, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Lawrence Goldstone, author of "Birdmen"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra and Goldstone discuss the book, which looks at the battle to control the skies during the early days of aviation.

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 30:15
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Research to Real Life (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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What does it mean to be a ‘research university?’ WorldCanvass guests answer that question from multiple perspectives on this program called “Resea...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:35
Interview with YA fantasy author Marie Lu
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
Caption: Author Marie Lu
Marie Lu is the author of the popular Legend series. Her newest series, The Young Elites, is a young adult fantasy, set in a world where the surviv...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:57
Composer John Adams: Creating American Classical music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: John Adams, Credit: Deborah O'Grady
Composer John Adams reflects on his creating American music that’s intense, sensual and meaningful.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Peter Rothstein: Star Tribune Artist of the Year
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Grand Rapids native Peter Rothstein was recently named the Star Tribune's Artist of the Year, not only for his talent as a director, but even more ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • Length: 14:10

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