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6 works, including COPLAND: THE CUMMINGTON STORY. Eos Ensemble/Jonathan Sheffer.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including RAVEL: Introduction & Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet & string quartet in G Minor. Martinu Quartet; Katerina Englichova, harp.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5, D 485 (1816) . Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including BACH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041. Academy of St Martin in Fields; Julia Fischer, violin.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including GERSHWIN: PORGY AND BESS: There's a boat that's.... Canadian Trio.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: Detail from Picasso's Gernika (Guernica)
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 WCQS, WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 39
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In our continuing coverage of the ongoing climate catastrophe, we often ask what we can learn from the experiences of people living on its frontlin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
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A Nightmares to Fairy Tales love story with shock rocker Alice Cooper and his wife of 48 years, dancer Sheryl Goddard Cooper.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 16:48
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The second special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio in December 2023, this speci...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
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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...

Bought by WGZS, KMSU, KSJE, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Madrigal album, American release, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic pic of my copy
At a recent vinyl record convention, having mostly struck out with my shopping list, I took a chance on an album with a cool, very 'of the period' ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 23, 2023
  • Length: 56:13
  • Purchases: 1
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In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 08:31
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Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Martha Lillard in an iron lung in the 1950s., Credit: Courtesy of Martha Lillard
Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
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In the 1970s, singer Roberta Flack made a name for herself performing covers of songs by folk singers and other little-known artists, creating, in ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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My Hometown Concentration Camp Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
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“There’s so much that is mysterious about Bach’s Mass,” Bill says, and this week he attempts to demystify Bach’s grand work by setting its context ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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“There’s so much that is mysterious about Bach’s Mass,” Bill says, and this week he attempts to demystify Bach’s grand work by setting its context ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30