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Bluegrass Review #1538. Program for Sept 12-18, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our broadcast opens with songs expressing contrasting views regarding working in cotton mills. The Gem of Bluegrass comments on the evolutionary fa...

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
The Right to Dignity: Service Sector Workers and the Future of Unions
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:11
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1490 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/20/2015
From: KRDP
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This day we broadcast from Rayner's Chocolate and Coffee Shop in Glendale Arizona as it enters into it's third year of financially supporting Hacks...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 2
Around The Bend E39
From: Maximilian Eyle
Series: Around The Bend
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We sit down with Devin Morrison of The Expanders to discuss rebel reggae and the legacy of the music. Also featuring tracks from Third World, Matis...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:29
Innovative programs that offer a spectrum of traditional repertory and new music.
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: San Francisco Symphony
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This week we feature the music of Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Bates.

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  • Length: 01:58:30
FST 15-22: Music from Portugal, 8/30/2015
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Fiesta!
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Little Portugal, once one of the mightiest nations in the world, can boast of an amazing musical treasure. From the medieval period to the present,...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:30
Shelf Discovery: Hostage Taker by Stefanie Pintoff
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a hostage crisis in Manhattan with Stefanie Pintoff's Hostage Taker.

Bought by KKRN and WDCB


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bonjour Chanson Series 18, Episode 87
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 18
Caption: Courtesy of Marie Cherrier, Credit: Marc Lubrano
We bring French Language Popular Music to English speakers. No French language skills are required to enjoy the show. Placing very different song...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Living Under the Sea With NASA Aquanaut David Coan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The NEEMO 20 crew poses for a group shot., Credit: NASA
NEEMO is a long-running NASA project that is helping to prepare us for mission to Mars and other destinations. Mat Kaplan talked with engineer and ...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
150815 Your Invisible Friend
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Back from a three week vacation with a new persona - "your invisible friend." Too much windshield time.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:38
The Modern Symphony
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Much like the novel, people are always pronouncing the symphony to be a dead form. And yet, composers continue to write symphonies at an incredibl...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:29
What's Your Kid Packing for Campus?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The NRA won the gun control debate long ago. So with the right to bear arms no matter the consequences firmly established in U.S. law and psyche o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pivot Point of Midland, Michigan#31
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season One: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Tim Adams, Credit: Pivot Point, 1016.org
Pivot Point is a part of the 1016 Recovery Network in Midland, Michigan. It provides job training, and basic financial planning skills for those wh...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2015
  • Length: 25:00
Marmoset Baby Talk
From: Susanne Bard
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A new study suggests baby marmosets’ calls change as they grow up, overturning more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about primate vocalizations.

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Simon Shaheen: Making Musical Bridges
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Simon Shaheen
Violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.

Bought by KPVL and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
Bluegrass Review #1537. Program for Sept 5-11, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with recent bluegrass by the Gibson Brothers. Then, a couple of songs that reflect the American obsession with automobiles. Work is ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KSKQ, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Gems of Bluegrass #1537 Traveling for Work
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Most of us think of work as something we do in our home communities. That applies to farm, factory and office work yesterday and today. Except that...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
Songbird Duels Feature
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The federal government recently closed an eight-year investigation into smuggling operations related to an unusual sport. A Virginia scholar studi...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 3
It's a Jungle Out There (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodiver...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUD, KVSC, WKCC and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
It's a Jungle Out There (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodive...

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WTJU, KEDT, and WABE


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Cannabis Radio News #57
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News, we hear several important stories from California, not to mention the latest from Oregon, Alaska, Rhode...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reel Discovery: People Places Things
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin follows along with the messy reality of indie comedy People Places Things.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WDCB


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Filmspotting 550 (08/14/15): The End of the Tour, Top 5 Movies About Writers (revisited)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Jesse Eisenberg & Jason Segel in 'The End of the Tour'
Since his death in 2008 at age 46, a kind of cult following has developed around writer David Foster Wallace. For proof, look no further than the e...

Bought by KPVL, WRIR, WOUB, WNJR, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6

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