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NL 23-40: Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson in the 1960s, 9/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 22-41: Jazz Side Story: Leonard Bernstein, 10/2/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Bernstein’s music performed by Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong and others, as well as som...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-39: Trane ’63, 9/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at another notable year in the career of jazz giant John Coltrane, including his collaboration with vocalist Johnny Hartman, and newly-disco...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
THE INVENTOR -- Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 18:24
MN Reads: "Blood in the Tracks" by Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 13:41
HARM 23-40: Program 1000! With David McCormick, 9/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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On Harmonia this week: it’s episode number one thousand . . . and we’re celebrating by going medieval, or mostly anyway, podcast-style, with my gue...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
HARM 23-39: William Cornysh: Prisoner and Choirmaster, 9/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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While incarcerated at Fleet Prison, English composer William Cornysh wrote a long poem, A Treatise between Information and Truth, which drew upon m...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-38: Jazz From Monterey: 1958, Birth of a Festival, 9/11/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program of music from the very first Monterey Jazz Festival. Featured artists include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Gerry Mullligan, Dave Bru...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-37: After Brubeck: Paul Desmond In The 1970s, 9/4/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program featuring the 1970s music of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, including commentary from Desmond friend and biographer Doug Ramsey.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at transitional justice through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. We’ve looked at the t...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-36: Gennett Days: Hot Jazz From the Heartland, 8/28/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring the emergence of a kinetic jazz scene in 1920s Indiana, with commentary from historian James Madison and others.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-35: Postwar Prez: Lester Young 1945-1950, 8/21/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
The Many Indias (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Many Indias (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, KVSC, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Many Indias (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Many Indias (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by WUGA (part of GPB), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WABE, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
2336: (End of) Summer Reading List 2023, 9/5/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
HARM 23-37: The Life and Times of Monteverdi, 9/4/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Claudio Monteverdi’s long career spanned a period marked by big changes to the Italian musical landscape: transitions between Renaissance and Baroq...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 23-34: When Russell Met Baker, 8/14/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz theorist George Russell and the young trombonist David Baker formed a progressive-bop group at the beginning of the 1960s so modern that it wa...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
THE TRAILER TO: The Lasting Impact of ROBBIE ROBERTSON
From: Paul Ingles
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[please do not broadcast this unless you are also committing to broadcasting at least one hour of the full program at PRX ] TRAILER TO : THE LASTI...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 12:23
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Morehead State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 29
NL 23-33: Mob-Lee: Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley, 8/7/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Hank Mobley were two leading exemplars of the 1950s and '60s hardbop sound and recorded together on a number ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
Maria Callas: The Enduring Icon
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, the WFMT Radio Network and Jon Tolansky present an exclusive documentary memo...

Bought by KENW, Troy Public Radio, WDPR, WQXR, WILL and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15

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