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Full Moon Hacksaw # 1557 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/01/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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In our continuing tribute to the mighty Mose, an anatomical description definitely causes us to reflect a la Monk mood, Coltrane’s tenor giving tha...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
How the Erie Canal changed the world
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Michael Keene is an author and historian.
The Erie Canal changed the world by connecting New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. But author and historian Michael Keene says...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 6
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1555 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/17/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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An eclectic music mix this episode, why? Because we can. Inspired by musicians appearing in Hacksaw’s ‘hood recently, trumpeter Bruce Gates kicks i...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 4
One Man's Love Affair With an 1876 Bank Robbery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Would you fall off a horse eight times in one weekend? And not get paid for it? KFAI’s Emily Bright reports on one man who lives to be part of a re...

Bought by KVSC and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
Viking ship Draken leaves Great Lakes, but hard feelings linger
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Draken Harald Harfagre, Credit: courtesy of Draken Harald Harfagre
The replica Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre has sailed out of the Great Lakes, wrapping up a summer visit marred by a dispute over pilots fees. ...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WMUK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1545 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/08/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Rhythm tempo Louie Bellson style sets the downbeat, dynamic Maynard and harty Hampton Hawes piano fill the fare next. Mr. Hawes met pianist Toshiko...

Bought by WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
Splatter Platters Make Things Matter. Episode #528
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
SITPE # 1629
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A Magical Mystery Tour from B to Y (A & Z weren't available)

Bought by KSRQ, KKRN, WYAP, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
SITPE # 1626s
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Rockin' in the Days Of Confusion

Bought by KSRQ, WLPR , KKRN, KCMJ Community Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1534 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/23/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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It's got to be "Prez, Bird, Shearing or the Basie" according to top hipsters King Pleasure and Symphony Sid, singer and radio DJ respectively. The ...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WOUB, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 7
The Lost Art of Chinking
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: chinking, Credit: renee wilde
The innovate art of chinking, filling the gaps between the logs in a log cabin, is being lost on the present generation. Modern restoration efforts...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:47
SITPE # 1620
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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30

Bought by WLPR , KKRN, KSRQ, KEOS, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 15
The Chameleon Guru
From: Liz McArthur
Series: Sleepy City Podcast
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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 43:00
Stop That Bus!
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 54:12
  • Purchases: 1
Refusenik Love
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Like many Soviet defectors, Olga left a life behind when she emigrated to the U.S. in the early 80's. This episode of ARRVLS tells the story of lov...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
Allen Ginsberg
From: Facts About Fiction
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59
SITPE # 1606
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Creepshow

Bought by KKRN, KSRQ, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Episode 11: Dragonman - Behind the Guns
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13
SITPE # 1549
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A side of this, a side of that and a side of the other

Bought by KWMR, KEOS, KKRN, WLPR , KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
Hunting for EVPs, and Turning Up Some Good Times.
From: Carolina Wheat
Caption: Paper Plate Moon (Tunnel) , Credit: Liz Nielsen
A want-to-be ghost hunting narrator thinks she finds Electronic Voice Phenomenon when she playfully searches hard enough for it.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 12:53
A visit to San Quentin Museum
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lt. Robinson points out the warden who died at his desk, Credit: Chris Hambrick
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:27
Did Robert Louis Stevenson have the world's weirdest honeymoon?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A stone tablet honors author Robert Louis Stevenson
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 10:19
The Evolution of Popular Music
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we follow cues from the paper ""The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010" as we attempt to find out what tomorrow's popular music wi...

Bought by WOUB, KPVL, KSKQ, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
B-Sides That Were Hits
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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They weren't intended to be the hit, but someone made them so.

Bought by KSKQ, KPVL, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6

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