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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Part 2 of a unique two-part offering, The Bowie Project. Vocalist Paul Marinaro teamed up with Jim Gaillo...

Bought by WLPR , Northwest Public Broadcasting, and WDCB


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Part 1 of a unique two-part offering, The Bowie Project. Vocalist Paul Marinaro teamed up with Jim Gaillo...

Bought by WLPR , Northwest Public Broadcasting, and WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and why she now embraces it, as she reads from ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with the first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera who served from 2015-17. With the recent...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Accordion master Mihoko Goto on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of the most revered and accomplished singer songwriters of his genera...

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, WOUB, KDLG, KLCC and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Parisota Hot Club Sets the mood every other Sunday at 7:30 at Volstead’s Emporium, 711 West Lake in Minneapolis, in the Calhoun Building. Catch...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
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Sharma Shields discusses her novel, The Cassandra. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A young Gilbert Seltzer in uniform in October, 1942, after graduating from Officer Candidate School in Fort Belvoir, VA., Credit: Courtesy Gilbert Seltzer
104-year-old Gil Seltzer speaks with his granddaughter, Sarah Seltzer, about what it was like to be part of a top-secret deception unit in World Wa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes talks with entrepreneur Karen Hoskin.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Youssra El Hawary from Egypt on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the Cinematic Guitar Poetry of Japan's Hiroya Tsukamoto plus Egyptian acc...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WETS, WVRU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WSLR and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 18
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome "Double Monk". The brilliant pianists, Jeremy Kahn and Steve Million present their dual-piano interpretat...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
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In 2006, Robin Robertson's collection, SWITHERING, won the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for best book. Now selections from that and his other f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Caption: Betty Dowd, Marco Acosta & Anita Acosta at the SF Latino Film Festival , Credit: Marcos Nájera
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 31:40
Caption: ASU Professor Luis Mendoza holds up an original copy of Acosta's book., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:40
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we have an extraordinary group organized by pianist Bob Long and vocalist Al Day, with saxophonist Brian Gephart and...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Giancarlo Guerrero and host John Clare, Credit: Michael Daugherty
We’ll hear from a five time GRAMMY® award winner, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Whitney Bell
Whitney Bell got tired of receiving unwanted sexually explicit photos from men, and decided to do something about it: She gathered 200 of these ima...

Bought by KWIT, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WMUU-LP, KWMR, and KSJD


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Lydia Pense & Cold Blood first rocked the Bay Area in 1968, and along with Tower of Power helped forge the funky, soulful sound known in rock histo...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2017
  • Length: 08:15
Caption: Cover of Theater Programme for Israel Zangwill's play "The Melting Pot", Credit: Wikipedia
We’ll speak to some talented conductors in America’s melting pot from Finland and Poland, plus the young composer Adam Schoenberg

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8