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The Bees Knees & other slang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blossom Seeley
Almost as quickly as they arrived, they disappeared from lack of use. Slang from the 1920s and early ‘30s. During their heyday, they were flying ar...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wrapping up Stevie Wonder Month
From: KMUW
Series: Soulsations
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We’ll wrap up Stevie Wonder Month on Soulsations! We celebrate the legendary musician who turned 74 on May 13th. Wonder’s childhood friend, John ...

Bought by KSLU, KHNS, and KCUR


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 3
HBCU Renaissance (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by KHNS, KVSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WJCU, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
HBCU Renaissance (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
HBCU Renaissance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
HBCU Renaissance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #369 ("Double Down")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Billboard Charts
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Unusual chart achievements on the Billboard charts in the rock'n'roll era!

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:40
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #368
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 24-24: Matrix: The Emergence of Chick Corea, 6/10/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A tribute to the pianist featuring his recordings with Stan Getz, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and as a leader in the 1960s.

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
NL 24-23: The Fabulous Fats Navarro, 6/3/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
NL 24-22: Kind Of Two: Miles Davis & Bill Evans, 5/27/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring the brief but profound musical relationship between trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans that resulted in the landmark album Kind...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
HARM 24-21: Intabulation, Part 1, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Lillian Faderman: The Emotional Truth of "My Mother's Wars"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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LGBT and Ethnic Scholar and Author Lillian Faderman discusses her book My Mother’s Wars a reconstructed memoir of her mother’s life as an Jewish i...

Bought by KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KECG


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
NL 24-21: The Duke Is On The Air: Duke Ellington’s 1945 Treasury Department Shows, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Jungle Music
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cab Calloway Orchestra
No one truly knows when the term came into common use. The original intent was for it to be derogatory. Insult the band and the music by calling it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Drugging France (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Drugging France (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Drugging France (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Drugging France (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
World Ocean Radio: Looking East From West
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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After a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #367
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #366
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #365
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Sobering Reality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Tiny Parham & Musicians
It’s not that one brought about the other. Rather, it was a melding of many factors, and during that time, jazz became incredibly popular, as did s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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