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FST 15-07: The Magical Palette of Edino Krieger, 5/17/2015
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Fiesta!
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Outside his native Brazil, Edino Krieger is mostly known for his substantial work for the piano. But he was also a very imaginative orchestrator. ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:30
#1510- Still Wrestling: Martin E. Marty
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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"Sometimes its good when things get messy," says noted historian of religions, University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Martin E. Marty. He's been ...

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Ukrainian folk textile artist Vera Nakonechny traces her artistic journey.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vera Nakonechny, Credit: Yury Nakonechny
Ukrainian embroiderer, weaver and bead worker Vera Nakonechny keeps a traditional culture alive.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Cat Sitter's Whiskers by Blaize and John Clement
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels back to Siesta Key for Blaize and John Clement's latest Dixie Hemingway mystery, The Cat Sitter's W...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KKRN


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1524. Program for June 6 - June 12, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Love and money: Is there a connection? Not for the two lucky guys in the first two songs, whose sweethearts don’t care a whit about money. Then we ...

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, RadioFreePalmer, WEZU, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 18
Bluegrass Review #1523. Program for May 30 – June 5, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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Early on, we play a couple of scary prison songs, where moments of anger lead to violence and long prison sentences. The Gem of Bluegrass features ...

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, RadioFreePalmer, WEZU, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Live at KDHX: Kristeen Young and Ryan McMurtrey
From: KDHX
Series: KDHX's Collector's Edition
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Kristeen Young and Ryan McMurtrey perform live in the studios of KDHX in St. Louis on April 17th, 2015, and May 1st, 2015.

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Alan Stern and the Rise of Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015., Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI
Humankind’s arrival at Pluto is barely two months away. The science and images have already started to flow from New Horizons, according to the mis...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Dial Tones
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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RT calls up our radio and podcasting friends around the world to find out what new music they think will dominating our airwaves and digital bit st...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:29
StoryCorps: Pastor David Ned
From: StoryCorps
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In the 1970s, Pastor David Ned learned an important lesson about himself after what could have been a tragic situation.

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
FST 15-08: Sephardic Music, 5/24/2015
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Fiesta!
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In 1492, after being exiled from Spain, Sephardic communities blended their music traditions wherever they settled. Starting with a song in ancien...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:29
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 Semyon Bychkov conducts pieces by Mozart, Strauss, and Brahms.

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  • Length: 01:58:30
Knausgaard: The New Novel Thing
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is sweeping the world in six volumes and 3,600 pages. It’s the novelized memory of a mostly ordinary Scandinavian...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Our Worst War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky, and Christian Appy on the legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Reel Discovery: Playing It Cool
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin learns about love with Chris Evans in Playing It Cool (in theaters and on demand).

Bought by KKRN, Harford Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dr. Ed Tick - Warrior s Return - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Edward Tick, author of War And The Soul and Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul After ...

  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:42
Pop Music Redux
From: Susanne Bard
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Powerful computer tools are helping musicologists study the evolution of popular music.

Bought by KMUD, WABE, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Rolling Stones Radio Hour/Live Covers
From: Kevin Yazell
Series: Rolling Stones Radio Hour
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With rehearsals for the Zip Code Tour about to get underway, this hour is a look back at some of the great covers the Stones have included in previ...

Bought by Louisville Public Media, KRPS, WLPR , WOUB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:04
  • Purchases: 6
After 7 Years Playing Together, Jazz Group Celebrates its First CD
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: JaAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske, Credit: Laurenb Photography
JoAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske. Jazz for voice, piano and bass. They’ve been holding forth Friday and Saturday nights at the St Paul hotel lobby for 7...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Whale Contortionists
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Expansion of the ventral grooved blubber during a fin whale lunge., Credit: University of British Columbia
Baleen whales have rubbery nerves that allow them to stretch to twice their length when they feed.

Bought by KMXT and WLPR


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Measles vs. the Immune System
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Measles vaccination in Ethiopia., Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0, via flickr
The measles vaccine protects the immune system from other infectious diseases.

Bought by KENW, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Not Throw Away Women: How Serial Killers Stalked Black Women in South Los Angeles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Margaret Prescod, Credit: Laura Flynn
In the 1980s in South Los Angeles more than a dozen black women were murdered. Many of these women’s bodies were found in parks, alleyways, and dum...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
Normalizing Violence Puts Black Women’s Lives at Risk
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact’s fellow Rochelle Robinson brings us this story exploring how violence against women, especially women of color, is so pervasive tha...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1

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