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Steve discusses the history of LDS converts in Turkey, starting with 19th century Armenians.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 52:28
- Purchases: 1
We commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica (April 26, 1937) with “Guernica” Piano Trio number 1 by Octavio Vá...
Bought by WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2024
- Length: 58:32
- Purchases: 38
This Hip Deep edition explores the legendary early career of Thomas Mapfumo, a singer, composer and bandleader whose 1970s music set the stage for ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 59:00
First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
In Good Faith welcomes two guests to discuss "Rumi: Studying the Sun".
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 52:28
- Purchases: 1
In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 52:49
- Purchases: 1
We explore Islam in Turkey and chat with a former Imam who founded a school to teach girls how to recite the Koran.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 52:54
- Purchases: 1
The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations.
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 4
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 52:52
- Purchases: 1
This week, the team visits Sardes--join our discussion on Judaism in Turkey.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
This week - Remembering.
In light of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, we hear from those who survived the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We also h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 29:59
More than any contemporary jazz artist, Randy Weston understood, honored and explored the roots of American music in Africa.
- Added: Dec 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In this program, we explore tarab with special guest UCLA ethnomusicology professor A.J. Racy.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The Shona mbira is one of the most entrancing musical sounds out of Africa.
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In this program, author and scholar Deborah Kapchan guides us through the history, practices, music, lore and unique contemporary stature of the Gn...
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
To start its latest season, the award-winning A New York Minute in History podcast celebrates Native American Heritage Month with a conversation ab...
- Added: Dec 04, 2023
- Length: 29:30
The ‘Windsor Shower Companion’ ($11.49) was the first product sold on home shopping network QVC, which made its debut on 24th November, 1986, quick...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:30
With cutesy graphics and a female-focussed origin story, Tamagotchi was positioned as a ‘nurturing toy’ for Japanese girls when Bandai launched the...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 10:10
Pope Clement V ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar and seizure of their properties on 22nd November, 1307: a day that sealed the fate of the ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:11
Did climate change start with the industrial revolution, or was it earlier than that? And how can the story of an everyday spice help us better und...
Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas
- Added: Nov 23, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Hamas didn't parachute into Gaza from another planet. The Islamic Resistance Movement, its leaders and militants are an organic part of a packed po...
- Added: Nov 19, 2023
- Length: 58:39
Recorded in 2005, teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel all speak their truths. The group had gathered at an annual meet up at a Peace C...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:14
