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The Big Book of Mars: Our Obsession with the Red Planet
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Marc Hartzman's fascinating and entertaining book about Mars in popular culture and more., Credit: Quirk Books
Author Marc Hartzman’s new book celebrates the wonder of the Red Planet and how it entered popular culture.

Bought by WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw #1706 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10-10-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A fall outdoor festival in the desert southwest is our setting this show, visual art and cuisine conspired with music on radio and live. Charlie Hu...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Fotografia
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Looking through old photos elicits a myriad of feelings.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 59:21
Ben Miller Says The Aliens are Coming!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ben Miller's The Aliens are Coming, Credit: The Experiment Publishing Company
British physicist turned comedian and actor Ben Miller has written The Aliens are Coming-- The Extraordinary Science Behind our Search for Life in ...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMUD and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Cassini at Saturn: The Final Year
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Saturn and Cassini, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The great Cassini spacecraft has a year to go before it plunges into the ringed planet. Project Scientist Linda Spilker returns with more amazing m...

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Planetary Radio Live: All These Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artistic rendering of Planet 9 with the distant Sun in the background., Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)
Our live conversation about “Planet 9” and the amazing diversity of our solar system, featuring Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of Caltech, Senio...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
A Conversation With Andy Weir of "The Martian"
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Matt Damon as "The Martian", Credit: 20th Century Fox
It was the #1 New York Times bestseller, and as this week’s Planetary Radio premiered it was once again the most popular movie in the USA. “The Ma...

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


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Pawpaw (Pledge Drive Special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Moore
As fruits go, the pawpaw is about as unique, historically important, yet mysteriously undervalued as it gets.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 24:18
  • Purchases: 2
Yale’s Debra Fischer and the Ever More Precise Search for New Worlds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: In this laser frequency comb, colorized for illustrative purposes, the solid lines are the star spectrum and the dots are the artificial laser spectrum. The dark gaps in the star spectrum represent different chemical elements in the starlight. Long-term s, Credit: European Southern Observatory
It’s terribly hard to find exoplanets that look like our homeworld. The search requires development of astoundingly powerful and precise instrumen...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Impersonation with Minnesota's Captain Jack Sparrow
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with an individual who takes pride in portraying one of Disney’s most notorious characters while educating a...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 13:16
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 223 "Monsters of Public Radio" NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Host of This American Life, Ira Glass
Host and producer of This American Life IRA GLASS, RadioLab's JAD ABUMRAD and ROBERT KRULWICH, Prairie Home Companion's GARRISON KEILLOR and music ...

Bought by WCPN, KUT, KUOW, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 4
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 223 "Monsters of Public Radio"
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Host of This American Life, Ira Glass
Host and producer of This American Life IRA GLASS, RadioLab's JAD ABUMRAD and ROBERT KRULWICH, Prairie Home Companion's GARRISON KEILLOR and music ...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWMR, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 209 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Note: we are re-airing one of our favorite shows from a previous era, in which Courtenay Hameister was host, in its entirety this week as we morph ...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 220 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress and Comedian Kristen Schaal, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KRISTEN SCHAAL & SCOTT JACOBSON - Comedian/voice actress and writer/producer for Bob's Burgers LISA HANAWALT - Well-published cartoonist Musical ...

Bought by KWMR, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUOW, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/1/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MY FIRST, THE LABOR ....

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
What Makes A Song a Hit?
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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So what does make a song a hit? Dr. Burns and Beth West along with special guests, Father Cayet Mangiaracina - co-author of Hello Mary Lou, Paul Sa...

Bought by WMTNradio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 212 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Singer/Songwriter Edna Vazquez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author HOWARD BLOOM Comedian ALEX FALCONE Singer/Songwriter EDNA VAZQUEZ

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:54
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 212
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Singer/Songwriter Edna Vazquez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author HOWARD BLOOM Comedian ALEX FALCONE Singer/Songwriter EDNA VAZQUEZ

Bought by KALW, KUT, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Record Contracts
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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What makes it possible for you to get the music you love, the money the record labels love, and the publicity that artists love? Contracts, of cour...

Bought by WMTNradio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 207 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Musician & Singer Sallie Ford, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
BRIAN LINDSTROM - Filmmaker PAMELA DRUCKERMAN - Author Musical Guests - SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 207
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Musician & Singer Sallie Ford, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Brian Lindstrom - Filmmaker Pamela Druckerman - Author Musical Guests - Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

Bought by 90.5 WESA, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Odd and Strange Rock Memorabilia
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Not only is there good memorabilia, there is also bad memorabilia, AKA "crud." Among these "artifacts" are a wooden spoon signed by John Lennon and...

Bought by WMTNradio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
300th Show! Physics of Music
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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With guest hosts Dan McCarthy, a plasma physicist, and Bill Robison, a historian, this week's Rock School will be focusing on the scholarly princip...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 196 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Prolific Novelist, Kurt Andersen, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KURT ANDERSEN - Host, Author & Journalist MARIA SEMPLE - Author & television writer DAVID BAZAN - Singer/Songwriter

Bought by KUT and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
2012 Christmas Show
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week's Rock School is all about one album: "A Christmas Present for You" from Phil Spector. We'll play songs from the album, learn about the l...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jan 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1