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No Number One
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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There are a lot of bands that have not had a number one hit. What is interesting is how close some bands came without ever hitting the top. We ha...

Bought by KTRL, KHNS, KWIT, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Science unscripted - Birdsong and sexual harrassment
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show, why are birds and the noise they make so good for us? Also, we learn why the response to sexual harrassment is so much differe...

Bought by WMFE and WFHB


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw #1896 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/01/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The main thing is that vinyl be visible (video proof on Facebook Live, YouTube and Instagram Hacksaw Jazz). Musical offerings range from Latin in e...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
Science unscripted 03/21/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Thin bodies & thin blood.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
2233: Fargo's Noah Hawley + The Terminator co-writer Gale Anne Hurd, 8/18/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s episode, we’ll hear from author, screenwriter, and television creator Noah Hawley. Hawley created FX’s award winning series Fargo, w...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
220722 Dance Instructional Songs and Synthetic Chinese and Arabic Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Johnny and the Jammers - Johnny Winter's Earliest Band
Back in the mechanical days, for a song to go "viral" required it to be associated with a dance that everyone wanted to learn. Up sprang the "Dan...

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


  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
220316 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
There's a half dozen popular myths defining the first rock and roll record but every week we feature 85 songs you've never heard any and all of the...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 7
EP186 Jimi Hendrix Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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This compilation album from 1994 showcases the Blues of Jimi Hendrix.

Bought by WLPR and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw #1792 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06-03-2021
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Randomizing, we spotlight on 2005 jazz releases times five this episode: Eddie Bon Paris leads, Katrina sent him our way. Piano Professor Oscar Pet...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WMOT, KRZA, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
148: Algae Farming Fish
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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We catch you up with an update on fluorescing animals and then jump right into new research on Long Fin Damsel fish that use Mysid shrimp to farm a...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sonny Turner: The Important Thing Is to Be Identified for One's Ability
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboar...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
The Dead Ladies Show Podcast Ep 2: Fanny Blankers-Koen
From: Susan Stone
Series: The Dead Ladies Show Podcast
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? Except with Dead Ladies. The Dead Ladies Show is a live event in Berlin that tells the stories ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 27:12
Star Wars Robots
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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How realistic are Star Wars’ lovable droids?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass and Bach a Winning Combination
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Monroe Crossing, Credit: Jamey Guy
Bach and bluegrass. The combination really works, as composer Carol Barnett and lyricist Marisha Chamberlain proved a few years ago when they creat...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Massed Mandolins are coming to Como Dockside
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra, Credit: Steve Rouch
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. And t...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 07:59
The Art of Text and Directing Henry VI: The Rise of Richard
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode, we discuss this years apprentice play, Henry VI: The Rise of Richard. Learn what it's like to take a 500 page script down to an sm...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 33:23
An entertaining look back at "Casablanca"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Noah Isenberg, author of “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.”

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Doug Scholz-Carlson on All Things Theatre...and "As You Like It"!
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Say hello to Audrey, a goatherd. Played by Stephanie Lambourn., Credit: Benjamin Boucvalt
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a jack of all trade in the theatre world. This individual fills us in on the many different roles he pla...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 19:15
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 2
From: Hold That Thought
Series: The Human Brain
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It's the sequel! Psychologist Jeff Zacks returns to explain how our eyes and brains make sense of continuous movie edits.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 3
Gray Coats on the Silver Screen
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Digital Public Library of America, East Carolina University.
Film critic Eileen Jones talks with Brian Ballogh about Hollywood’s enduring love affair with Confederate heroes. This story comes from the BackSto...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WETS, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 3
Listener Supported: A BackStory Fundraising Special
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: A family listening to the radio in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1939. Photo by Arthur S. Siegel., Credit: Library of Congress.
Pledge drive hour for stations carrying BackStory with the American History Guys. Includes special content on the history of pledge drives and fund...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Tri States Public Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 38:20
  • Purchases: 11
Rock Star Phobias
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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We're gonna talk about phobias. Many musicians and actors have strange phobias. We will even discuss melophobia, the fear of music.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The United States of Lyncherdom
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: New York Mayor Seth Low shown taming the Tammany Tiger on the cover of Puck Magazine, Credit: Library of Congress
Horrified by accounts of lynchings in his home state of Missouri, Mark Twain penned a dark, satirical essay on the subject — but then, he chose not...

Bought by WETS, KREV-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
The Ghost of Satires Past
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: New York Mayor Seth Low shown taming the Tammany Tiger on the cover of Puck Magazine, Credit: Library of Congress
Comedians Azie Dungey and Jordan Black examine how history figures into their satirical web series Ask a Slave. This piece comes from the BackSto...

Bought by WDBM, WETS, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 3