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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
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
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Jackson Browne, Credit: Paul Ingles
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE RUN IF YOUR STATION IS RUNNING THE *TWO HOUR VERSON* of THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE. THERE ARE ALSO 3-Hour and Single ...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, North State Public Radio, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (Hour 1 of 3)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Jackson Browne
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE RUN IF YOUR STATION IS RUNNING ALL THREE HOURS OF **THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE**. THERE WILL BE OTHER VERSIONS POST...

Bought by KSJE, Prairie Public, WUTC, and KFSK


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
TRAILER to "THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE"
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Jackson Browne
An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 09:37
  • 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
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
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
National Writers Series: Daniel Bergner
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Rick Coates talks with author Daniel Bergner about his latest book, "The Mind and the Moon."

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
68 and Counting: 1968
From: Israel Story
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Nearly a quarter of Israel’s population gathered to watch the 20th anniversary military parade in a newly unified Jerusalem. We’re taken back to th...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 11:21
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
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #147 - A Lost Classic - Stephen Stills' MANASSAS (2 hours)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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On this edition of the Music Archive Showcase, we spotlight musician Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash and (sometimes) Young. Each of those 4...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KSJE


  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Iris Chen
On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KUT, KUHF, KRVS, New England Public Media, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KVSC, KSKA, KMUN, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
NL 22-15: Sweet Smell Of Success, 4/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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This hard-bitten 1957 movie about a desperate publicity agent and a powerful press maven (played by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, respectively) c...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
EE 22-10: A conversation on the importance of food traditions in times of war and dislocation, 3/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The 2008 Russian war with Georgia holds some striking similarities with today’s conflict in Ukraine.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00