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Raise a Glass to Karl Wallinger, Hal Blaine, Tammi Terrell, and more...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we explore and celebrate one of the oldest and most versatile instruments; the flute. We hear "Sonata Latino" by ...

Bought by WUAL, Delmarva Public Media, KCCU Radio, KWAX, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 16
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This week, we'll listen to some country fried Jazz, amongst other things. Songs from Dolly Parton, Jimmy Webb and Willie Nelson, and performances b...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, KRSC, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
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We hear and read ‘Old Sayings’ all the time. It occurred to me that many have been put into song, some verbatim and some just referred to. Here are...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:44
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The ‘Windsor Shower Companion’ ($11.49) was the first product sold on home shopping network QVC, which made its debut on 24th November, 1986, quick...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 09:30
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With cutesy graphics and a female-focussed origin story, Tamagotchi was positioned as a ‘nurturing toy’ for Japanese girls when Bandai launched the...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 10:10
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Pope Clement V ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar and seizure of their properties on 22nd November, 1307: a day that sealed the fate of the ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 09:11
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Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:14
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In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 11:18
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Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:11
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Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when P...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
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In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 11:18
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The French government introduced a new State religion on 10th November, 1793: the ‘Cult of Reason’, which attempted to reflect the anti-clerical at...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 11:10
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Presidential diplomacy now routinely involves hundreds of trips on Air Force One – but, until Theodore Roosevelt travelled to inspect the Panama Ca...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
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Bruce Miller appeared to be the victim of a violent robbery at his salvage yard when his body was discovered on 8th November, 1999 - but he had act...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:51
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The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 09:33
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In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unearth the origin...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:32
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In a quirky blend of sports, public health, and self-promotion, boxing legend Muhammad Ali took on an unusual opponent at the Washington Monument o...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:16
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Dropping bombs from planes was unheard of until 1st November 1911, when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti embarked on an aerial mission over Libya....

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 09:42
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For this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for 🌴 CLUB RETROSPECTORS 🌴members, we explore the incredible history of the at-home pregnancy test, fir...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 10:18
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Johnny Campbell, a medical student from the University Of Minnesota, spurred on his alma mater’s struggling football team by leading spectators in ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 09:52
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On 30 October, 1990, with little fanfare and without any cameras present, the first connection was made between the French half and the British hal...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 10:26
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When Queen and David Bowie met in Switzerland to record their iconic collaboration ‘Under Pressure’ on 26th October, 1981, *quite a lot* of drugs a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 10:06
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Irish popstar Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance of Bob Marley’s ‘War’ on NBC’s TV show ‘Saturday Night Li...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 10:13