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Want to know the truth about Valentine’s Day? Me Too.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I thought it would be simple. Just google Valentine’s Day and learn all about it – when and where it started and modern ways it’s celebrated arou...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
D-day: 150,000 Men, and One Woman
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.

Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 8
Closing the TaB
From: WFIU
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Caption: Azzurri the Bachelorette
Hi, I'm Jim Lange and this is the Dating Game for dogs. In the post-WWII world, this music that was later called "Rock and Roll" was simply popula...

Bought by WQCS, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #149 - The Music of Cowboy Bebop
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll explore the music of Yokko Kanno and the Seatbelts, and their music for Cowboy Bebop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KRSC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Notes from the Jazz Underground X-Mas Special (encore)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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a bunch of Christmas classics and not yet classics from John Zorn, Moe., Wynton Marsalis and more!

Bought by KRPS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 3
The Generator
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from an art space, which has taken over an old big box store.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
01-32 Rear and Obscure 45's
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden shears his rear obscure 45 records

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 55:21
THE FUNHOUSE - 1
From: paul mcguire
Series: The Funhouse
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A themed one hour journey through far flung corners of rock 'n' roll history, so expect the unexpected with host Harry Parmenter each week on our ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:30
The Place in Between
From: Israel Story
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When – in mid-April – Sivan Goren Arzony picked up her phone in Somerville, MA, she never imagined it was the start of her very own personal Via Do...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 17:33
When Doomsday Came Calling by Mistake
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Our producer Flawn Williams once got caught up in a sticky situation that triggered fears of a nuclear attack while working at a Chicago TV station...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Jazz Underground #83
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll get weird with Dweezil Zappa, we'll get funky with Zony Mash and the Sugarman 3, we'll go Honky-Tonkin' with Astroturf Noise, and ...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Venmo Reparations
From: Beandrea July
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When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offer...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 3
Radio-586-AZ-Roots-06-10-to-06-16-20-show-355
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Johnny D and Bacpac's Phoenix Sound 5 of 6. What has led up to this segment evolved from “Arizona Sound series,” “The Phoenix Panorama,” “The Arizo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Instance 1
From: Will Hardwick
Series: Brilly Barner Broadcast
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Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 10:08
Heart Warrior Chosa KBFT Unexplained Series 2020
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
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Bois Forte resident/elder, Heart Warrior Chosa talks of Unexplained Phenomenon.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
Karen Drift KBFT Unexplained Series 2020
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
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Bois Forte Elder, Karen Drift talks of some of the spirits that reside in Nett Lake, MN.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 05:21
Comedy in Quarantine
From: Brett Forrest
Caption: Comedian Tyler Fischer turns his bedroom into an online venue., Credit: http://TylerFischer.com
How standup comedians and venues in New York City are coping and adapting to comedy in quarantine without their audiences.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
01-28: Organ Jazz
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden play jazz music performed on Harmon organ

  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:35
01-02: Jazz on 45s
From: KSJE
Series: Turntable Taxi
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Feruden finds a small collection of Jazz on 45RPM Records

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 56:52
The Rage of the Third Sons (Carmina Burana)
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That
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Eight hundred years ago, a group of defrocked priests left the church and found the world. This music created a powerful, hilarious, moving window ...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 20:56
Traveling Music
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Howard Johnson's
On the road home with Art Linkletter, Warren Oates, Jon Hamm, Jessica Pare, Marshall Efron, Bob & Ray, John Witherspoon, Ice Cube, James Taylor, Jo...

Bought by WLRH and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Puppets & Jim Henson
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Loren Kahn Puppet Theater, Credit: Gary Newell
This week on The Children’s Hour you’re invited to join us for a live broadcast from the opening of the Jim Henson exhibit at the Albuquerque Museu...

Bought by WLRH


  • Added: Nov 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1

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