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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mid City Swing
Mid City Swing 05-19-24

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:16
Caption: Music on the Sunny Side
Music on the Sunny Side with Pete Soderbergh 05-19-24

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:52:37
Caption: 60s Reunion
The 60s Reunion 05-18-24

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:01:36
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Unusual chart achievements on the Billboard charts in the rock'n'roll era!

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:40
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luther's House Party
Luther’s House Party with Luther Kent 05-18-24

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:54:28
Caption: Louisiana Gumbo
Louisiana Gumbo with Pat McBride 05-18-24

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 57:47
Caption: The Buffet
The Buffet with students in the Radio Training Program 05-18-24

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:20
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Blues From the Road with Larry Garner 05-18-24

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
Caption: Mo Good Stuff
Mo Good Stuff with Leah Smith 05-18-24

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:26
Caption: Eureka Strings
A special road trip episode. OHR visits Rogers, Arkansas’ Railyard Live Concert Series featuring Eureka Springs folk orchestra, Eureka Strings, re...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: The Rhythm Review
The Rhythm Review with Rob Payer 05-18-24

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:53:35
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A tribute to the pianist featuring his recordings with Stan Getz, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and as a leader in the 1960s.

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Exploring the brief but profound musical relationship between trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans that resulted in the landmark album Kind...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
For today’s dumb idea, meet Barry Marshall. An Australian medical student, in 1982 he claimed that bacteria cause gastritis… then peptic ulcers, th...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
Wonder drugs have snuffed out some terrifying diseases. But first they must be approved by the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
We don’t hear the word “anarchy” much today, but a century ago it was a worldwide social movement. In 1894 Charles Rodolf wrote: “The true anarchis...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
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Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Outdoor mural featuring Frida Kahlo, Credit: In Confianza, with Pulso
“In Confianza, with Pulso” producer Anthony Wallace brings us the story of Thania Betancourt Alcazar. A member of “The Phoenix Fridas,” Alcazar di...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Is there something inherent in English that makes it the linguistic equivalent of the Borg, dominating and consuming other languages in its path? N...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, KECG, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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LGBT and Ethnic Scholar and Author Lillian Faderman discusses her book My Mother’s Wars a reconstructed memoir of her mother’s life as an Jewish i...

Bought by KMUN, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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In this week's episode we're featuring a labour of love from Laura Cash: "Awake But Dreaming" (2010). A fine collection of western swing and tradit...

Bought by KSRQ and KEOS


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:00
  • Purchases: 2