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Caption: Grenade attack on Panzer Tanks, Battle of Amiens, The Somme 1918, Credit: Fritz Fuhrken
How does one creatively express the horrors of war? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we look at how artists communicate the effects of violence an...

Bought by WRTI, GCR (Global Community Radio), WQCS, KMFA, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
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This second podcast looks at the debacle that unfolded following the CXC's adjustment of school-leaving examinations in 2020 in the face of the pan...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 14:16
Caption: Tommy Emmanuel and young Croatian guitarist Frano on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcas of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes young master guitarists mentored by the guitar great Tommy Emman...

Bought by KHNS, WEJP-LP 107.1, WETS, RadioFreePalmer, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 25
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Jazz legends Poncho Sanchez and Larry Coryell head a world-class lineup of Latin jazz, big band jazz, blues music and more for the Jazz in June mus...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A retrospective musical journey and interview by host Jeremy Gossett with grammy winning saxophonist David Sanborn.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s hard to keep teachers in Utah's Monument Valley. It's beautiful there, sure, but you're hours away from a real grocery store or a movie theate...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
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Last February, a former student at Utah State University wrote a Facebook post. She said she’d been raped by an instructor in the piano department,...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:53
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Science doesn't understand lightning very well—or how a strike affects the human body. Survivors sometimes claim to have super-senses, or special p...

Bought by KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KPIK-LP, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 41:33
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A view from the balcony: the Young Musicians Camp ensemble plays everything from classical to “All About That Bass” at the University of Montevallo. , Credit: Dan Carsen
Fewer reading materials in the home. Less access to camps or museums. Those are some of the reasons “summer learning loss” disproportionately affe...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
Caption: Lupe Herrera, Credit: Charles Magovern
Lupe Herrera has all the protections of United States citizenship, but none of that is guaranteed to her brother and parents. This legal crack in t...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUER, KSFR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Rolanda Scott, Credit: John MacLellan
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
Caption: Rolanda Scott , Credit: John MacLellan
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together. Rol...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:30
Caption: James at Phillips Exeter
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:08
Caption: Liz Peter takes her siblings swimming in Seattle., Credit: Chantal Anderson
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Lou Gehrig's retirement speech from baseball is one of the most poignant and meaningful moments in all of American sport.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:58
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas. This pro...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVMR, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 3
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Winner of the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for best national news documentary, Saints & Indians tells the story of a program that placed thousands o...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2006
  • Length: 15:40
  • Purchases: 20
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The graduation story of student Moriah Williams.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:00