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The Old, Weird America
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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On this Easter weekend, let’s do our best to bring back the ghosts, the supernatural. Let us recognize and respect the mysterious entities that com...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
El día que se apareció El Diablo (The Day the Devil Appeared)
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 12:18
Constant Wonder - Making the Modern Christmas
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” We’ll catch an early music fright listening to scary sounds for Halloween…but...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
It's Witchcraft: Songs For A Haunted Halloween (Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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On this episode, we explore some of the most haunting, bewitching, and eerie tunes from the Great American Songbook for the haunted holiday of Hall...

Bought by KCNP, Troy Public Radio, WVPE, Raven Radio, KCNP and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Constant Wonder - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: General Patton; Topic 2: Race of Aces; Topic 3: Pacific Wrecks

Bought by KTNA, WYPL, RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Constant Wonder - President's Day
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Our President's Day special puts some focus on a woman who performed some of the functions of President of the United States. We'll learn about Edi...

Bought by KVMR, RadioStPete Florida, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Fourth of July Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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This Independence Day special explores how Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. viewed equality. We also learn about our first president,...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KUHF, Wyoming Public Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 52:56
  • Purchases: 8
A Baroque Christmas in the New World
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with festive music from 17th- and 18th-century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia perform...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KWIT, High Plains Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNIJ and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Birthplace of American Spirits (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Craft distilleries are popping up in small towns and big cities across Virginia. In this special holiday episode, we connect the present to the pa...

Bought by WCNY, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 10
Holiday Favorites and Memories (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Holiday favorites from Judy Garland's ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” to the Pogues’ rowdy “Fairytale of New York" and John Lennon’s “Hap...

Bought by KUHF, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUHF, WCNY, KUHF and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by KUHF and WCWP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KEDT, WMUU-LP, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Lost Vault of Klezmer (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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New discoveries from a lost stash of klezmer recordings are changing what we know about the genre - Working class Americans used to love opera... s...

Bought by KRZA and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Solving the Klezmer Mystery (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
Treaty Tribute (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are preparing to celebrate that first feast shared between Native Americans and European Pilgri...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
Retlaw Plaza Hotel
From: A. Emily Ralph
Series: Aubrey Ralph - Wisconsin Life
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Standing at the heart of Fond Du Lac Wisconsin is the Retlaw Plaza Hotel. It was constructed in the 1920s by hotel and insurance magnate Walter Sch...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Faith on the Fourth
From: Interfaith Voices
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Our Independence Day special has stories on the Fourth of July as an American High Holy Day, the faiths of our founding fathers, and Jefferson's cu...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 52:30
  • Purchases: 1
King Stories: (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
From: Dorothy Green Alcorn
Caption: King Poster, Credit: Nicolene DuToit
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:26
  • Purchases: 88
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love was Manufactured
From: Hold That Thought
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Historian Mark Valeri examines the truths about the first Thanksgiving and the myths of American identity we have created around the event.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving in Virginia: People Without a Nation
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Chief Gene
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:39
Radio Retrospective: Irving Berlin's White Christmas
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
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You'll never hear the song White Christmas the same way again.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KUOW, WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 14
Place + Memory: Remembering Dreamland
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: The high dive at Dreamland., Credit: Courtesy Dr. Reginal Shareef.
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.

Bought by KALW and WABE


  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 2
Promo - American Spirit: A History of the Supernatural [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: "Houdini and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln," ca. 1920, Credit: Library of Congress
With Halloween coming up, and vampires or zombies regularly topping the box office, it seems Americans can't get enough of all things spooky. This ...

Bought by WUFT and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
SITPE # 1151
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stuck with the hermit at Yuletide again.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMXT, KSRQ, KWMR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8