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NL 23-04: New Vibes: Gary Burton In The 1960s, 1/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Vibraphonist Gary Burton was still a teenager when he burst onto the 1960s jazz scene, going on to work with Stan Getz and make a number of memorab...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Matt Mullins & the Bringdowns
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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Matt Mullins and the Bringdowns come from Beckley, West Virginia with howling harmonicas, a raw blues guitar, and bone chilling vocals. Matt Mull...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:12
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-50: It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story, 12/5/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Indigenous Voices from the Northeast: Past, Present and Future
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Join our guest, Jennifer Lee, Northern Naragansett Grandmother, bark basket maker, and culture bearer, Board Member of the Nolumbeka Project, as sh...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
MN Reads: “The Sky Watched” by Linda LeGarde Grover
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Poet Linda LeGarde Grover talks about the book “The Sky Watched”

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 08:29
Art at the Intersection: Saving a Community Legacy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed, Credit: Naima Wolfe
Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacan...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
NL 22-43: Bebop Comes To Europe, 10/17/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program about American jazz artists performing in Europe in the late 1940s, including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
HARM 22-43: Interview with the Baltimore Consort, 10/17/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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On Harmonia this week: a visit with members of the Baltimore Consort. We’ll chat about the group’s history; hear about their current projects and ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Constant Wonder - Float Like a Butterfly, Major Taylor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The man who changed the course of boxing history.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John R. Vile, Credit: newschannel5
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-39: Trane '62: John Coltrane's Classic Quartet Begins, 9/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Recordings that saxophonist John Coltrane made with Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Off with Her Head
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #149 - Talk Music With Me: JD Souther
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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An hour of music and conversation with one of the pillars of the Southern California rock and pop scene of the 1970's and onward, John David Southe...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KUHF, WPVM 103.7 and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On board each Voyager spacecraft is a time capsule: a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk carrying spoken greetings in 55 languages from Earth’s peoples, along with 115 images and myriad sounds representing our home planet., Credit: NASA/JPL
It’s a party for Voyager and the team of scientists, engineers and others who have followed it across our solar system. Then we’ll visit with Ann D...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #148 - Talk Music With Me :"IT WAS THE MUSIC" film director Mark Maskowitz
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Larry Campbell / Teresa Williams
Music Host Paul Ingles talks with filmmaker Mark Moskowitz about his 2020 10-Episode film series called IT WAS THE MUSIC, which follows musicians ...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

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


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight - Nani Vazana - 819
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Nani Vazana visits with host John Floridis prior to her appearance at the 2022 Montana Folk Festival in Butte, Montana to talk about her most recen...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Improving The Peace Prize
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist, in 1901. Committee members in Norway meet privately...

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Improving The Peace Prize
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist, in 1901. Committee members in Norway meet privatel...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 06/16/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The remnants of slavery - June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...

Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 24:29
  • Purchases: 2
Rhiannon Giddens celebrates a world of Black music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rhiannon Giddens, Credit: Ebru Yildiz
In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, New England Public Media, WMPG, RADIOLEX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon Marshall
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3

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