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Episode 37: What Gets Told

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

Episode 34: Lost and Found

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...

Professor Longhair's Legacy

From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out

Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection

In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW

Episode 7 - Teenagers

From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio

This week, we meet a rock star on our paper route.

Bought by KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU

Tony Arata Pt. 3

From: Ty Hager
Series: Nashville Songsmiths

The third in a four-part series of interviews with songwriter Tony Arata ("The Dance"). Hosted by Ty Hager, recorded in Nashville.

Tony Arata Pt. 2

From: Ty Hager
Series: Nashville Songsmiths

In the second of a four-part interview, songwriter, humorist and broadcaster Ty Hager talks with his old friend Tony Arata about writing "The Dance."

Steve Dean Pt. 1

From: Ty Hager
Series: Nashville Songsmiths

The first of songwriter and humorist Ty Hager's interview with Steve Dean, writer of hits for Alabama, Joe Nichols, and the number one smash "Watch...

Walt Aldridge Pt. 3

From: Ty Hager
Series: Nashville Songsmiths

In the conclusion of Ty Hager's three-part interview with famed songwriter, producer, and music professor Walt Aldridge tells the story of how a $6...

Walt Aldridge Pt. 2

From: Ty Hager
Series: Nashville Songsmiths

Hit songwriter Walt Aldridge talks with Ty Hager about his comeback hit for Travis Tritt, his approach to demo recording, and the rewards of mentor...

Walt Aldridge Pt. 1

From: Ty Hager
Series: Nashville Songsmiths

Ty Hager's interview with multi-hit songwriter, producer, and engineer Walt Aldridge.

Episode 77: The Escape

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Leonard Cohen: Evolution From Poet to Songwriter and Singer

From: David Tarnow

Leonard Cohen: How a shy, sensitive poet from Canada became a major recording artist. This one-hour radio show documents Leonard Cohen's very firs...

Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue

From: Joyride Media

Exploration of Dennis Wilson's solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue" and rare, unreleased "Bambu" sessions.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KFAI Minneapolis and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 1. The First Jews

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Their long climb from poverty to prominence and prosperity in the New World

Bought by WCPN, KWIT, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 2. The Streets Were Paved with Gold: A Journey Through The Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants found a harsh life and no gold on the Lower East Side. The program describes aspects of daily immigrant life including tenements,...

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WXXI Rochester and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 3. Becoming Americans: A Journey Through the Jewish Lower East Side of New York, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Yiddish Theater - Culture and religion of the Old Country abandoned - The Triangle Shirtwaist fire - Assimilation into mainstream America

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 4. White Christmas: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood, Part 1

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Jewish immigrants like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and George Gershwin reinvented American popular music

Bought by WCPN, KCSM, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 5. Over the Rainbow: The Story of the Jews Who Created Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, Part 2

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Yiddish-speaking moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn created Hollywood, and an idealized, small-town Protestant America that never was.

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, New England Public Media and more

ONLY IN AMERICA: Program 6. No Dogs or Jews Allowed: The Story of Antisemitism in America.

From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

The Story of Antisemitism in America - Father Coughlin, Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh publicly denounce Jews - Joe Lieberman chosen to run for V...

Bought by WCPN, WRGY, WNMU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New England Public Media and more

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