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The Parisota Hot Club Plays in a Speakeasy Atmosphere Next Sunday at Volstead’s in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
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
The Write Question - Sharma Shields - 390
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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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
StoryCorps MVI: Sarah and Gilbert Seltzer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month concludes with poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger. She discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and w...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Karen Hoskin — A bottle of rum...and a better world (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes talks with entrepreneur Karen Hoskin.

Bought by KBUT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 948: Hiroya Tsukamoto and Youssra El Hawary
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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 WETS, WVRU, Red River Radio Network, WSLR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 17
CJL-317 Double Monk
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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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 WDCB


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 1
2018-40: On Being: Frances Kissling, 9/27/2018
From: On Being with Krista Tippett
Series: On Being with Krista Tippett
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“If there isn’t the crack in the middle where there’s some people on both sides who absolutely refuse to see the other as evil, this is going to co...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
More with Scottish Poet and Editor Robin Robertson
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Episode #4: "A Vandalized Voice"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
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
Episode #3: "The Ladies in His Life"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
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
Episode #2: "Hunting for Buffalo in Arizona"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
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
CJL-305 Al Day - Bob Long - Marc Smith
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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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
Giancarlo Guerrero
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
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 WETS and WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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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
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. Pulled from three archive programs in 1990 and 1996, this author of f...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
71: How To End Sexual Harassment-Whitney Bell, Feminist Activist
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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
An Interview with Lydia Pense
From: Brian Bahouth
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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
America's Melting Pot
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
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 'The Sea', WETS, KHSU, and WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 4
U.S. Poet Laureate (2015-2017) Juan Felipe Herrera
From: New Letters on the Air
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In front of an audience at the Kansas City Public Library, the first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera shares poetry from his books, i...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
J.D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews J.D. Vance about his bestselling memoir.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Jim Denomie: Contemporary Ojibwe Artist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Area Voices
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Contemporary Ojibwe artist Jim Denomie currently has an exhibit at the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, MN. He has a unique way of holding a lens...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
Candice Millard, author of "Destiny of the Republic"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Millard about her bestseller, "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President"

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 30:02
Why do we look for water when we look for life beyond Earth?
From: Carrie Nugent
Series: Spacepod
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Dr Cable explains why scientists often assume that water is needed to sustain life. She explains why most life, like us, likely is carbon-based, an...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 14:27