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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by WXPR, WRFA-LP, WDSE, WNMU-FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Paul Metsa, Credit: Howard Christopherson
Paul Metsa is a defining Minneapolis musician of this generation. Reflecting on his recording career, Paul believes that a 1992 project called Whis...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Sarah M Greer, Katrina Brogden and Katia Cardenas, Credit: Jenny Zander
To respond to the crises after the death of George Floyd, Pangea World Theater created a concert called the Burning Truth project. It is curated by...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Dr Dean Alger, Credit: WWOZ Staff
Dr Dean Alger is a political scientist with five books to his credit, he has written about influential bluesman Lonnie Johnson and he sings and pla...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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A special perfect for Labor Day! The Hollywood Blacklist didn’t only affect the film industry. On this show, we look at the repercussions it had fo...

Bought by WVIA, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WJSU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, To Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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How is the new economy embodied in a pint of beer? This is the question that guides us in our Craft Beer episode. From ancient times to the modern ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Clash Of Civilizations" - President Trump thinks Western Civilization is in trouble. But does the West need saving? HOUR TWO: "Artific...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...

Bought by KSKQ, KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Scholar Walidah Imarisha talks about the racial messages of movies like The Jungle Book.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
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economist Jeff Rubin. Actor Tab Hunter. Music: No Joy

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:06
Caption: Rob Reiner, San Francisco, CA 6/20/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rob Reiner talks bad toupees, great writing, and attention to detail.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 26:01
Caption: Ben Riggs, Credit: Paul Nixdorf
Harvey Milk, first gay elected official in San Francisco, was assassinated in 1978. The Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, which has been performing for...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:02
Caption: Pablo Larrain, San Francisco, CA 1/22/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Pablo Larrain talks the perspective of time, the metaphor of equality, and why politics are always personal.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 17:28
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Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 16:35
Caption: Marjane Satrapi, San Francisco, CA 4/30/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Marjane Satrapi talks perspective, jasmine petals, and testifying before the Green Party members of the European Parliament in 2009 about the dispu...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 17:11
Caption: Levi Fuller, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Levi Fuller discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and perf...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Anastacio y los del Monte
Música estilo Reggae, con letras que hablan de la historia del país o la sociedad salvadoreña en su mayoría.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 34:38
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Over 17,000 people gathered at NYC's Madison Square Garden to honor folk musician Pete Seeger.

  • Added: May 08, 2009
  • Length: 55:29
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Interview with documentary film director Daniel Gold about his new film "Everything's Cool"

  • Added: Dec 13, 2007
  • Length: 24:46
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Poems from the acclaimed documentary: Scouts are Cancelled

  • Added: Jul 31, 2007
  • Length: 07:21
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the story of a firefighter in Iraq who changed his name to Optimus Prime

  • Added: Jul 02, 2007
  • Length: 03:32
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States are passing restrictions on invasive species where federal government fails.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 03:58