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TALK MUSIC WITH ME: The Music and Philanthropy of Harry Chapin- Hour 2 of 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...

Bought by KFSK, WHRV, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Sports Bra, Stealing Home
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 & 2 - Sports Bra; Topic 3 - Stealing Home

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 51:56
  • Purchases: 3
Fixing the Stars: Sylvia Plath at the Edge of Sight
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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She worked with intense dedication to be heard in a world that has no ears to hear women. But, Plath was a woman who wrote many times of her disdai...

Bought by WKMS and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
NL 21-07: Big Band Louis: Louis Armstrong 1929-1946, 2/8/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Schuyler Mansion: History, Enslavement and Alexander Hamilton
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Inside the Schuyler Mansion, Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Mansion Historical Site
Heidi Hill and Jessie Serfilippi from the Schuyler Mansion State Historical Site join us to share the stories behind the stories about the Schuyler...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 36:21
If It Sounds Good It Is Good - Monday Music Special featuring author Richard Manning Part One
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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A Monday Music Special produced for Montana Public Radio featuring conversation with author Richard Manning. The interview focuses on his most rece...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 2
What's Old Is New Again: Going Medieval on the Cult of Innovation (2015)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
NL 21-01: Swingers: Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine, and Jazz, 12/28/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Hugh Hefner was best known as the founder of Playboy Magazine, but in the early days of his media empire he often showcased jazz performers and spo...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
NL 20-51: Conover’s Coming Over: Willis Conover and Jazz at the Voice of America, 12/14/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Voice of America DJ Willis Conover helped popularize jazz around the world during the Cold War. We’ll hear some of his broadcasts and speak with hi...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Top of Mind - Vietnam Stories, Artificial Intelligence Friend
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - “The Mountains Sing”: Trauma, Resilience and the Legacy of War in Vietnam, Topic 3 - An App That’s Designed to Be Your BFF

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:07
  • Purchases: 3
Native Peace Values / Reconciling Clergy Abuse
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Oren Lyons
A two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of "Original Politics: Makin...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 20-48: Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong At The Movies, 11/23/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Louis Armstrong was a legendary innovative trumpeter, a vocalist who had a profound impact on jazz singing, and a dynamic entertainer—and he got a ...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
National Writers Series: Bob Giles
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Cynthia Canty talks with journalist Bob Giles, author of "When Truth Mattered."

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WNMU-FM, and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary
From: Paul Ingles
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re spo...

Bought by KDNK and KUCB


  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President Documentary
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

Bought by WNCW, WHRV, WKMS, North State Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Police De-escalation / Quakers in Costa Rica
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #122 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME w/ Producer John Leventhal (Part 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: John Leventhal and Rosanne Cash
It's our second hour with the multiple award-winning producer and musician John Leventhal, who in hour 1 pointed us to just a few of the albums he ...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: Oct 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
NL 20-40: One More You Wrote Through Us: Horace Tapscott, 9/28/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The music and life of the legendary underground Los Angeles jazz pianist and community activist, with remarks from his biographer Stephen Isoardi.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
NL 20-37: Boppin’ On Bee Hive, 9/7/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From 1977 to 1985 Chicago’s small Bee Hive label released a wealth of hardbop and straight ahead jazz by Clifford Jordan, Sal Salvador, Johnny Hart...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
At Home in Miami’s Little Haiti
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fall 2020 Student Edition
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Gretchell Cano and Luz Estrella Cruz explore the work of Hai...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 08:40
Returning Civility to Political Discourse
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...

Bought by KUHF, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joseph McCarthy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
On the evening of February 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy dramatically announced that he had a list of over 200 members of the Communis...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
10 Minutes with Rudolfo Anaya
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Rudolfo Anaya
Highlights from a 2002 writer's forum in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that featured beloved New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya. FROM ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Damaged Heritage
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J. Chester Johnson
Although the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre in the summer of 1921 is now recognized as part of Americas ugly past, another similar act of carnage of equa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Reynolds
The British and Americans have always had their similarities. More so now over the past four years. In 2016 The Brits voted to leave the European U...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1