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Passover Dreams
From: Jim Metzner
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Fasten your seat belts and pass the chicken soup! Gabriel Award-winning Passover Dreams featuring Melissa Leo, winner of the 2011 Oscar for Best Su...

Bought by KWIT, WNMU-FM, WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 52
The Old, Weird America
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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On this Easter weekend, let’s do our best to bring back the ghosts, the supernatural. Let us recognize and respect the mysterious entities that com...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Giving New Life to Ancient Easter Tunes
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us for an Easter celebration this week on Harmonia! We’ll hear how composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods created new m...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Talk About Love, Baby (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Valentine’s Day today means candy hearts and stuffed bears. But Kat Tracy says the origins of the holiday are far from cute and fuzzy–and they don’...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Let's Talk About Love, Baby (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Valentine’s Day today means candy hearts and stuffed bears. But Kat Tracy says the origins of the holiday are far from cute and fuzzy–and they don’...

Bought by KMUN, KIYU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KVSC and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Let's Talk About Love, Baby (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Valentine’s Day today means candy hearts and stuffed bears. But Kat Tracy says the origins of the holiday are far from cute and fuzzy–and they don’...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Let's Talk About Love, Baby (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Valentine’s Day today means candy hearts and stuffed bears. But Kat Tracy says the origins of the holiday are far from cute and fuzzy–and they don’...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
NL 23-52: Santa-O: A Very Hip Christmas, 12/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Swinging round the yule log with music from Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, violinist Eddie South, pianist Charles Brown, singer June Christy, and ot...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Holiday Rarities!
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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On Afterglow’s annual winter holiday show, we’ll explore some less familiar holiday gems from classic singers, including “Santa Claus Got Stuck In ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
AG 23-51: Holiday Rarities!, 12/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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For Afterglow’s annual winter holiday show, we’ll explore some less familiar holiday gems from classic singers, including “Santa Claus Got Stuck In...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
HARM 23-52: Veni, Veni Emmanuel: A Medieval Christmas, 12/18/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Tired of jingle bells yet? This time of year, we are surrounded by Christmas music. This week on Harmonia, join us for something a little different...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
HARM 23-53: Drive the Cold Winter Away: Music for the Winter Solstice, 12/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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The longest and darkest of nights, the Winter Solstice has been observed across cultures with rituals and feasts celebrating the warmth of communit...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
HARM 23-51: Las Posadas, 12/11/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Get ready to burst open the piñata as Harmonia celebrates the traditional Latin American Christmas pageant, Las Posadas, with Renaissance- and Baro...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
HARM 23-50: Holiday Triple Spin, 12/4/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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"Holidays are a great time for music! And this week on Harmonia, we’re going to take a spin through three favorite tunes and enjoy how early compos...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Harmonia Holiday Triple Spin
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Holidays are a great time for music! On this edition of Harmonia, we’re taking a spin through three favorite tunes and enjoy how early composers an...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Drive the Cold Winter Away: Music for the Winter Solstice
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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The longest and darkest of nights, the Winter Solstice has been observed across cultures with rituals and feasts celebrating the warmth of communit...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
A Medieval Christmas
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Tired of jingle bells yet? This time of year, we are surrounded by Christmas music. On this special holiday edition of Harmonia, join us for someth...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WILL, KRPS, North State Public Radio, WVIA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Las Posadas: Christmas Music from Renaissance and Baroque Mexico
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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We’re heralding in the holiday season with an extended devotional prayer—or is it a party?—called Las Posadas. This Mexican Christmas tradition dat...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WCNY


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Holidays at the White House
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Trees, menorahs, and hair caught on fire.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 04:29
Halloween is Here, Beware of Scary Clowns
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Halloween used to be about Fairies and Superman, but in the 1970s a new spook came on the scene -- the evil clown. Historians say it was because ki...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Bountiful Harvest Music
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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We’re celebrating the harvest season. From pumpkins and cool breezes to the more spiritual aspects of remembrance and mortality, we’ve got bushels ...

Bought by WVIA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
"Surviving The Bataan Death March" (Narration by the late Senator John McCain) Special Encore Presentation
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
For 2023-24 "Surviving The Bataan Death March" Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW) Special Encore Presentation Offered as ...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 17
Friendly and Not So Friendly Ghosts
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Houlihans, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 26:58
Songs of Thanks and Praise
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-27: A Big Band Fourth of July, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:02

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