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Memorial Day: Not What You Were Taught in School
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
A Big Band Fourth of July
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...

Bought by KTNA, WSKG, and WHRV


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
2024-05-05 The Legacy of Freud
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, WLPR , and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Standing With the Giants at Mariposa Grove
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Mariposa Grove was a sacred grove for millennia before it became part of the Yosemite Grant, lovingly tended by Yosemite Guardian Galen Clark for m...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Invented Mother's Day? Not Hallmark or the Florist Society
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Preparing for Passover
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for the Passover holiday with a musical seder ceremony featuring tunes from around the globe.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Mapping Climate History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KECG, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mapping Climate History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Mapping Climate History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KUPR low power FM, WUTC, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Mapping Climate History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Mood Boosting
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish celebrates the Purim holiday with a global Jewish playlist meant to boost your mood.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Journal of Discovery
From: KALW
Caption: "Dispatches" Producer Eric Wayne and Host Sandip Roy enjoy a moment in San Francisco, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip began his Dispatches from Kolkata thinking he would tell listeners in the Bay Area stories from India to show that we were ultimately all co...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Monumental - A Tale from The Heart of America
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Tales From the Heart of America
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Uncover the layers of sacrifice, courage, and unity at the heart of America's story through the historic battlefield of Gettysburg and the inspirin...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 10:28
Ulysses and Julia Grant - A More Perfect Union
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Love Is History
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Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 15:10
February 19, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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Aaron Burr, Typhoid Mary, Cracker Jacks prizes

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 01:36
February 16, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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Ladies Home Journal, 911, Studebaker

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 01:26
Strike Up the Band! A Century of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
From: WQXR
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George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue turns 100. WQXR marks the occasion with a look at how this iconic piece of classical music came to be, and how i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WITF, KWAX, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
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
Tulsa's Black History Saturday School
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ribbon cutting at Tulsa's EduRec Youth Center for Black History Saturdays. , Credit: Credit: Black History Saturdays
When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History ...

Bought by KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
February 15, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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Human Genome, Big Blue Chess Champ, Jeff Davis Goes Free

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:38
February 14, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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First presidential photo, ENIAC, You Tube

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
February 13, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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Mountain Men, James gang, Lindbergh kidnapper

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:35
February 12, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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Rhapsody in Blue premiers

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:35
February 9, 2024
From: Jeff Nilsson
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Chocolate, Indy 500, Medicare

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:34

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