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Caption: Neighborhood Quartet by Benny Moreno, Credit: Benny Moreno
The Neighborhood Quartet is vibraphonist Steve Roehm, Guitarist Dan Schwartz, drummer Greg Schutte and bassist drummer Nick Salisbury. At its album...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Author Dianna Hunter talks about her first novel "Clouded Waters"

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:03
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On this week's episode, I got to dig through the AK Public Media CD library & came out with some AK music gems! So this week is going to be mostly ...

Bought by KHNS, KNBA, KTNA, KSTK, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Father's Day with paternal-themed Jewish tunes.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Buddhist Priest, Credit: Tyler Croat
To play free Jazz, you have to monitor what your fellow musicians are doing. So says Dave power, the percussionist of Buddhist Priest, along with b...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Buddhist Priest, Credit: Tyler Croat
To play free Jazz, you have to monitor what your fellow musicians are doing. So says Dave power, the percussionist of Buddhist Priest, along with b...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next “Sounds Jewish” for a continental celebration featuring Jewish music and comedy from Canada, the US, and from Canadians and Ame...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Psychedelic Southern Rocker Taylor Watkins has an awesome grandpa; the kind of grandpa who sits with you for hours diving deep into his record coll...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for a global playlist of Jewish saxophone tunes.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet Bart Sutter talks about his new book “So Surprised to Find You Here”

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 10:56
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Tune in to learn more about the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, why it was founded, its significance beyond the Jewish community, and the...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 40:28
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I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
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I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
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Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:17
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Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:35
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Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:44
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I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:53
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I always want to add an extra T when I write Yucca baccata, but no, two Cs and one T is correct. The specific epithet baccata is from Latin and mea...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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This week, we revisit an episode from earlier this year that helps us make sense of the isolation brought on by the pandemic, and mistrust sown by ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish welcomes Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, with songs from around the Jewish world.

Bought by KBEM, WNIJ, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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I originally learned the botanical name of this native plant as Eupatorium greggii, but it is now Conoclinum dissectum. It’s neat that the tribute ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:13