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MN Reads: "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult" by Maria Bamford
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Comedian Maria Bamford talks about her new book "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult"

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 10:19
Orson's Shadow
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A brilliant and neurotic group brings "Theatre of the Absurd" to a whole new level.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 34
230917 Overtime Free Form Radio - Quirky Songwriters Cover SF, LA, Miami, and Other Cities
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The "Bob" In The Machine
Three of the most individual songwriters, Slim Gaillard, Randy Newman, and Martin Mull, sing about cities.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Overtime Free Form Radio - Evolution of "Heaven" Lyrics
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Washington Phillips
The mystery of who and what happens in heaven from scolding abstractions to humerous specifics, pop song lyrics have evolved over the last 100 year...

Bought by KFCF FM and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Science unscripted 10/25/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Having nothing in your head is okay - science unscripted

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscritped 10/18/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — Wait, did that really happen?

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/11/22
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: New data shows what fasting and low-carb diets actually do to you — and if you want to save your relationship, stop 'phubbing.'

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
221001 Answer Songs and The Root Songs of Root Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Kathy Lynn and the Playboys
Searching for the first rock and roll song in all the music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. This week, we'll start with son...

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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Franklinland
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A unconventional comedy about one of the nation's founders

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 11
Halcyon Days
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A dark comedy about the Grenada invasion.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 30
The Granite City Radio Theater Season 9 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Keith Secola
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
Caption: Keith Secola at the Granite City Radio Theater 6.16.2021, Credit: Jo McMullen
WE GOT OUR LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE BACK! That's the big deal here! Well, special musical guest and Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame induct...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:26
  • Purchases: 1
Under the Hood with the Wood Rats
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Seasons change in the desert, but it's always Rat Time. Kangaroo rats, wood rats, deer mice full of hantavirus, it's just a feast for the rats all ...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
YBYG1132: You Bet Your Garden # 1132 Now is the Time to Care for Spring Bulbs, Correctly, 4/15/2021
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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In this episode of YBYG Mike goes over how to care for your Spring Bulbs- and correctly! Plus your correcting phone calls!!

  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
201227 "Bad Skills" plus Lamp Records and Matt Lucas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Matt Lucas at the (pre-Katrina) Fats Domino Compound
Whether we like it or not, we pick up skills from our habits. Everyone talks up the good habits and their good skills but nobody talks up the bad ...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:58
  • Purchases: 2
Sueños pandémicos
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Has tenido sueños extraños últimamente? Si es así, no estás solo. ¡Los sueños pandémicos están aumentando!

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Poet Laureate (2015-2017) Juan Felipe Herrera
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with the first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera who served from 2015-17. With the recent...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
From a P.O. Box
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
200111 Pianist's Missing Fingers and Radio's Human Equalizer
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: H-Bomb Fergeson
More Washington Phillips music contrasted with contemporary songs and a "whisper in your ear" talk about imagery, radio and the ideal of an audio p...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: 03:36:46
The Whistle Behind The Wire
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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The perfectly nice lady behind one of TV's most menacing overdubs

Bought by PRX Remix and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
55: Super Recognizers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Two percent of the population has the almost uncanny ability to recognize and remember faces from chance meetings even years before. We talk about ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
53: Barbed Wire Phones
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Benjy Section 12
From: Ken Cormier
Series: The Benjy Section
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“Stiff,” words and music by Ken Cormier. *** Subscribe to The Benjy Section.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 09:58
Tape
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Lust, ambition and a fateful recording.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KKRN, KUSU, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
The New York City Cabaret Law
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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In this piece, Connor discusses the history of the infamous Cabaret Law, a dancing ban that was law in New York City for over 90 years.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 05:30