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Beside Myself (#1535)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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The new Downton Abbey movie is a luscious treat for fans of the public-television period piece, but how accurate is the script when it comes to the...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Connie's Inn, Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Credit: CBS Studio
The nightlife that blossomed in Chicago and New York in the teens and ‘20s are the thread that laced together audience and music. In earlier years,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Now is the Month of Maying
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Now is the month of Maying, and English madrigalists weren’t the only ones singing about it! This week on Harmonia, we’ve got music for that marvel...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
AG 24-21: The Songs of 1923, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We’re once again turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties on Afterglow, to hear the songs from last century that have stuck around. We’ll foc...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
AG 24-19: The Songs Of 1921, 5/6/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we’re continuing our exploration of songs from the Roaring 20s with a look at 1921, a year that spawned songs like “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Skookum (#1534)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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So you've long dreamed of writing fiction, but don't know where to begin? There are lots of ways to get started -- creative writing classes, local ...

Bought by KVSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN, WPCA-LP, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
AG 24-18: The Songs of 1920, 4/29/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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On Afterglow, we’re spending the month of May turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties, a time when the Great American Songbook was in its in...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Literature and Art
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Winold Reiss
“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” Those words come from F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Electric Soup (#1635)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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When an international team of scientists traveled to a research station in Antarctica for six months, the language they all shared was English. Aft...

Bought by KTXK, WPCA-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KPRG, WNIN and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
AG 24-17: Blossom Dearie in the 1960s and 70s, 4/22/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We continue our 100th birthday celebration of Blossom Dearie, listening to her recordings in the 1960s and 70s for the Fontana and Daffodil Record ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
An Influencial Foursome
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe "King" Oliver
It was a lengthy journey from obscurity to international popularity. No one will say it was easy. But, with steadfast perseverance and endless cre...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of Riley (#1533)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Unwrap the name of a candy bar, and you just might find a story inside. For instance, one chewy treat found in many a checkout lane is named after ...

Bought by KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WPCA-LP, WNIN and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
European Dance Bands
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bert Ambrose
As traditional jazz evolved through the 1920s, audiences in Europe began gravitating toward larger dance bands. Live performances at dance halls an...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dolphin (#1634)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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How can you kick the verbal habit of saying You know and um so many times in a sentence? For one thing, get comfortable with pauses. There's no nee...

Bought by KTXK, Raven Radio, KECG, WPCA-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
AG 24-16: Blossom Dearie On Verve, 4/15/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
AG 24-15: Sassy Swings Again: Sarah Vaughan in the 1960s, 4/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We continue our 100th birthday celebration of Sarah Vaughan, exploring her work for Roulette Records label in the 1960s.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
On the Continent
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Hot Club of France
Between 1917 and the early ’30s there is a transformative era for jazz in Europe. While the music gets a foothold in America, it quickly spreads ac...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Off the Turnip Truck (#1532)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when people disagreed over the best word to use when answering the phone. Alexander Graham Bell sugg...

Bought by Raven Radio, WPCA-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTXK and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Blame Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: James P. Johnson
Jazz had to deal with a number of hurdles, in the 1920s, before it was eventually accepted by the American public. Even then, it was very limited a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Gilded Age (#1633)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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In her sumptuous new memoir, Jamaican writer Safiya Sinclair describes her escape from a difficult childhood ruled by her tyrannical father. For Si...

Bought by KTXK, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Boosting Morale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
In the decade of the1920s, jazz evolves into the heartbeat of America. The music is the catapult into a new era around the world. Looking back, it ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: One Life
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin follows a group of normal people as they accomplish the extraordinary in One Life.

Bought by WUTC and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
AG 24-14: When The Sun Comes Out, 4/1/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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With a total solar eclipse just days away, we’re looking up at the sun for inspiration. We’ll hear songs of sunshine from the songbook, including “...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Shelf Discovery: The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows three different women as they find safety in books in The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan.

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Loaded for Bear (#1531)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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One way to make your new business look trendy is to use two nouns separated by an ampersand, like Peach & Creature . . . or Rainstorm & Egg. A tong...

Bought by KTXK, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WPCA-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16