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Appalachian Vibes Tony Williamson cont'd, Touchdown Tommy and Emily Musolino
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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This week on Appalachian Vibes, my conversation continues from last week with Tony Williamson. Tommy Touch Down Edwards was a Virginia Tech college...

  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Episode 139: Learning How to Forgive
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“The question becomes, when is enough enough?” Today, we’re talking about forgiveness.

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 33:35
NL 19-52: Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes to Church in the 1960s, 12/23/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed i...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
The End of Days - How Christian Zionism is Transforming US Policy in the Middle East
From: The GroundTruth Project
Caption: The End of Days, Credit: Gustave Doré
The GroundTruth Project and WGBH News go inside the movement of Christian Zionism, its potent political alliances, the hundreds of millions of doll...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio Catskill, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
HOLY MOLY: Two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Susie Essman of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Jim Dale and Susie Essman star in HOLY MOLY, two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives. In PLAYING GOD, a divine comedy from SNL's Alan Zw...

Bought by KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), Prairie Public, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
PN 17-47 “@Allah” by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Anjuli Raza Kolb, poet
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.

Bought by KUER, KHSU, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 5
World in Progress 04/12/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week, we'll take you on a road trip through Northern Ireland, 20 years after the peace agreement ended three decades of violence between Prote...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Death Machine
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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When Ryan and Sinehan Lessard first started dating, they discovered they have something strange in common: after they die, they both want to “becom...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 31:12
Chris Foreman at the Green Mill
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Chris Foreman at the Hammond B3
Chris Foreman plays Sundays in Church. And every Friday night, he's at Chicago's legendary Green Mill — playing the funky Hammond B3 organ in a nig...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:21
Faith on the Fourth
From: Interfaith Voices
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Our Independence Day special has stories on the Fourth of July as an American High Holy Day, the faiths of our founding fathers, and Jefferson's cu...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 52:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Spiritual Edge: Celebrating the commonalities at Oakland’s ‘Sushi’ Mosque
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Musicians lead the congregation in Praise Singing at ICCNC, Credit: Hana Baba
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
AMERICAN MYSTIC -- Alex Mar Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Alex Mar talks about lines that can’t be crossed, the psychological need for ritual, and avoiding the politics in religion.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 25:14
The "Ghost Church"
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Christmas Stories
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: No Room At The Inn, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Three Christmas stories. In the first story family nativities build homes in Haiti. The second story is about a man and a machine in Williamsburg, ...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WHRV, KWIT, and WLRN


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 4
04 A Ritual Soundscape
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Maeshowe Orkney
Humans learn to control sound for rituals with impressive monuments. David Hendy hears bizarre effects while beating a drum in Orkney, Scotland.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Church of Coltrane
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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On Sunday morning, while the Fillmore District is brunching or sleeping in, I’m sweating to attend something I’ve never run for in my life: church....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 1
Ladino Hanukah Songs Shed Light on Endangered Language of Jews
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews
Caption: Rivka Amado performs Ladino songs at the Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living in Danville, California., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
As the candles of Hanukah connect Jews around the world, holiday songs in Ladino shine a light on a language UNESCO rates as “severely endangered.”...

Bought by KSFR, KUPR low power FM, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WTIP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 7
Every Morning I Hear This Voice
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Like Hanukah Oil, Endangered Ladino Language Endures Among Jews
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews
Caption: Professor Gloria Ascher teaches Ladino at Tufts University., Credit: Rhonda Miller
As Jews around the world celebrate Hanukah, some in Boston are singing in Ladino, a language UNESCO rates as "severely endangered" in its 2009 Atla...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 2
In the Kitchen With the 'Jewish Martha Stewart'
From: Interfaith Voices
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A fun, sound-rich portrait of what it takes to cook a Passover seder.

Bought by KZYX, WSLR, Troy Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and The Neighborhood


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 5
Crypto-Jews
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Hidden Jews of Mexico profile

Bought by WBEZ, WYSO, and WFUV


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 3
Against All Odds: Hope in the Struggle-HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
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Teaming to Combat the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Southern Africa

Bought by KMUN, WDCV, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2008
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Lourdes Miracle - short, mixed version
From: John Laurenson
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The extraordinary popularity of the pilgrimage to Lourdes 150 years on.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
Church Music
From: Charles Lane
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A documentary exploring why we sing music at church and what it does for individuals and communities.

Bought by WORT, North Country Public Radio, WVAS, WGBH Radio Boston, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 38