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KISS Destroyer - Author Interview
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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On this episode, we are gonna interview James Campion and discuss his book “Shout It Out Loud: The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an A...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Coming Home to Big Stone Gap (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. And: looking to the past by colle...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KKRN, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
2016 Anniversaries - Show #1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This is the first part of a two part series. We will be talking about the anniversaries of this new year. What happened in the music world in 1966?...

Bought by KMUD, KSKQ, KSRQ, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
How The Bard Meant It (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-How did Shakespeare's plays really sound 400 years ago. Plus: The big ideas in the plays of Shakespeare. And more….

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, Troy Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Allusionist 26: Xmas Man
From: The Allusionist
Series: Allusionist festive episodes
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CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 21. Eponyms I: The Ballad of Bic and Biro
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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Naming something after yourself: a grand display of egomania, or the humble willingness to be overshadowed by your own product? Stationery expert J...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 17:56
Stars for Freedom (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The little-known story of how black actors and entertainers in Hollywood contributed their money, connections, and fame to aid the civil rights mov...

Bought by WCNY, WVAS, Vermont Public, WRPI, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 10
Stars for Freedom (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The little-known story of how black actors and entertainers in Hollywood contributed their money, connections, and fame to aid the civil rights mov...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKCC, KRDP, KENW and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Razzle dazzle
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Sep 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Pow Wow Dance
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Dibaajiimowin
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Carlee breaks down some of the different types of dancing people would see at a Traditional Pow Wow and she tells some origins of how those dances ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
When America Took to the Air (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the years after World War I, stunt pilots in small airplanes would fly throughout the country, performing tricks and selling rides to locals—int...

Bought by WCNY, Accessible Media Inc., WTJU, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 12 - Manny Roth of Cafe Wha?
From: Andy Moore
Series: Andy's Treasure Trove
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Episode 12 - Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 51:58
10 Cents a Dance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Stephen Holden
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) New York Times music and film critic Stephen Holden covered the 1970s singer/...

Bought by KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Heroes of Medieval Literature (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?

Bought by WJCT and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Heroes of Medieval Literature (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 4
Howard Smith interivews Eric Clapton 10/24/1970
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 1 - Fillmore East, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Eric Clapton, Oct. 24, 1970. Clapton's new band, Derek & the Dominos, will play the Fillmore East immediately followi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Butterfly in the Typewriter
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 4
THE PINK PANTHER -- Robert Wagner & Robert Osborne Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner, San Francisco, CA 4/16/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner talk improvisation,Charlie Chaplin, and the evolution of screen size.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:13
Thriller writer Linda Stasi and "The Sixth Station"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Linda’s debut novel is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books and international poli...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Neville
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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Aaron Neville News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) Grammy-winning R&B /soul singer Aaron Neville has been a radio ...

Bought by KUOW, KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
THE IMPOSSIBLE -- Belen Atienza, Juan Antonio Bayona, & Sergio Sanchez Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sergio Sanchez, Belen Atienza, Juan Antionio Bayona, San Francisco CA, 10/31/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Co-producer Belen Atienza, director Juan Antonio Bayona, and screenwriter Sergio Sanchez, talk control, heart, and respect.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:55
HITCHCOCK -- Sacha Gervasi Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Sacha Gervasi talks legends, reality, and the magic of the number 27.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 16:32
Little Shoppe of Horrors Journal Celebrates 40th Anniversary
From: NPR Illinois
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A 29 minute interview with Richard Klemensen, publisher of Little Shoppe of Horrors: The Journal of Classic British Horror Films, on the 40th anniv...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
San Francisco Silent Film Festival -- Artistic Director Anita Monga
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Anita Monga, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, talks preservation, going digital, and why Buster Keaton is funny in any ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 16:39