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Black History Month Jewish Style
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish commemorates Black History Month with great Jewish tunes performed by African-Americans and some Jewish-Americans – plus many of the ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
[Simulated Part Two] In bed with machines: a real-life and sci-fi exploration of sex robots
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...

Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
022: [Simulated Part One] Love at first (web)sight: romance with an AI companion, 2/9/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
A Jew At Christmastime
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
The Christmas season prompts ambivalence in many Jews. We dig that holiday spirit, but since Yuletide isn’t our deal, we can feel left out. Tune in...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Bonus: Christmas
From: Center for Rural Strategies
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In this episode we talk about Christmas horror movies, and how this gleefully perverse genre depicts the darker side of the holidays.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 37:12
New & Classic Chanukah Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
"Sounds Jewish" celebrates Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, with a cheerfully curated hour of new and classic holiday tunes.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
People of the Costume
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Halloween technically is not part of the Jewish calendar. But many People of the Book become People of the Costume on Oct. 31st. Plus -- Jewish fol...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bar Mitzvah Broadcast
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
“Sounds Jewish” celebrates its 13th anniversary – can you say “bar mitzvah broadcast?” – with lively and humorous bar mitzvah tracks, and marks the...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Professor Mikey's New Year's Revolution
From: Mike Flanagan
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The perfect New Year's mixtape, complete with rarities, standards, surprises, blatant nostalgia, sincere resolutions, unashamed hope, and serious p...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KMSU, KMXT, KSUT, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 25
A Very Hipster Christmas
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: Baby, it's cool on this side!
Dear Santa, I am so cool. This year I need the hippest music on the planet. Here's hoping the mainstream doesn't flow all the way to the North Po...

Bought by KDUR, KRCB 104.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KDUR and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 16
Episode #31 A Billie Holiday Holiday
From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show
Caption: Jennifer Barnett, Credit: Second Sandbar Productions
Join host Lena Dorey, the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests for a Christmas episode which pays tribute to jazz singer Billie Holiday. In ...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNMU-FM, and Southern Branch Bluegrass


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Halloweenish
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global Jewish, Halloweenish playlist that just may scare the skullcap off of you.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #30 - "The Phantom of the Mine"
From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show
Caption: John Latini on The Red Jacket Jamboree, Credit: Chelsea Batten
Celebrate Halloween with the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests: Dave Lorenz of Pure Michigan and singer-songwriter John Latini. Discover...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNMU-FM, and Southern Branch Bluegrass


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Party Like It's 360 BCE!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" parties like it's 360 BCE with a global Jewish playlist celebrating the approaching Purim holiday.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut 2021 Tribute Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Betty White
An extra hour of celebration of those who've left us this year, with music and events that broke too late to be included in A Shortcut Through 2021

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Magic
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Magic, Credit: Julia Meek
Abracadabra! This week on Folktales, we're tracking supernatural phenomena around the musical worlds they mesmerize. A frightfully fun show--hope y...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, KFOK-LPFM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 4
210103 The Covid Christmas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: I purchased this Corona when I first read about the Corona Virus making it to the USA. My mom was inoculated with the Covid vaccine on December 31st, 2021. I will drink this Corona after I'm inoculated.
A touch of retrospection and melancholy as we live out our pandemic. Audio postcards of the first and hopefully the last Covid Christmas. (And...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:51
  • Purchases: 2
Folktale of Fear
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: \\\\
Yikes! Beware the evil that lurks around this week's edition of Folktales. It's spooktacular!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, WFIU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular: Santa vs. El Diablo
From: Sound Opinions
Series: Sound Opinions Specials
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This is a Christmas special like none other. Holiday music collector and expert Andy Cirzan scours record stores, dustbins, and basements to find t...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KLCC, Prairie Public, KDUR, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Jethro Tull Christmas With Ian Anderson
From: Paul Ingles
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Seasonal music by the legendary British band Jethro Tull, with humorous commentary by its founder, Ian Anderson.

Bought by WXPR, KUPR low power FM, WRGY, KFSK, KSUT and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 7
Folktale of Season's Greetings!
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles...if you have an hour to spare for a Folktale this busy week, you can hear how it ...

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', WFIU, WFIU, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Snakesgiving Day Weekend
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas Special, Vol. 4
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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An all-new yuletide set of JazzGrass, good for anytime in the second half of December.

Bought by WVRU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular: Rudolph Pouts...And Pouts Again
From: Sound Opinions
Series: Sound Opinions Specials
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This is a Christmas special like none other. Holiday music collector and expert Andy Cirzan scours record stores, dustbins, and basements to find t...

Bought by KHNS, KUPR low power FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Panquetzaliztli: An Aztec Celebration Of The Season
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Panquetzalitlzli Performance , Credit: Alden Bruce
Experience Panquetzaliztli, a traditional Mesoamerican winter solstice performance by the Ehecatl Aztec Dancers, through their drums and the tellin...

  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 43:39