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180728 Before the "After the Flood"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A live broadcast from after the future floods and disasters of New Orleans. Yeah, I know a bit too cryptic but it works on radio.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:07
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
170108 Swamp Pop and Surf Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Other than marinating in water, there's not much similarity between Louisiana Swamp Pop music and California Surf music. Oh yeah, both were featur...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:42
August Birthdays (Vol. 1)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A whirlwind tour of bluegrass, jazz and genre-bending musicians born in the month of August.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:06
Discover Haiti
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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LTR!s July showcase, Discover HAITI, offers an interesting sidebar to second most populous country in the Caribbean at 10.6 million. It was the fi...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:03:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 65: The Kingfish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
World's Worst Cocktail Names
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
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What are the World's Worst Cocktail Names? We also discuss knitting and get into the Wine News. The Wine Fellers is an upbeat, good chemistry dri...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Mile High: 1920s Alto Saxophonists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Johnny Hodges
This program pays tribute to those inventive alto saxophonists in the early years of jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Contenders (Hour Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
Caption: William Jennings Bryan
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 22
Birth of a Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Washingtonians
In the beginning, they went by the name, The Washingtonians. But, it wasn’t long before they became one of the most recognizable bands in the coun...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Happy Birthday FM91!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
1920's
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Likely the most historic decade in launching the Musical Comedy as an American art form; Showboat; The Gershwins & Cole Porter

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and WRR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
Organ Grinder
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fats Waller
Pianist, composer, vocalist and ultimate entertainer Fats Waller always said his favorite instrument was the pipe organ.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Bert Ambrose & his Orchestra
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bert Ambrose & his Orchestra
Bandleader and violinist Bert Ambrose lead, by far, the most distinguished dance band in England in the latter 1920s and early 1930s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Belles of Broadway: A Women's History Month Special
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jane Green
This is a sampling of the women who performed on Broadway and recorded studio sessions in the 1920s.

Bought by WJCT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, WGTE Public Media, WCPN and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson: Healthcare in 1894
From: My Account of It
Series: My Account of It
Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama. She was licensed in 1891.
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:39
Identical Strangers
From: Radio Diaries
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 4
Reeds in Front
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Johnny Dodds
As jazz emerged as the popular music of the 1920s, it was common to have the trumpet as the lead instrument, however, a few pioneering musicians wa...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Dark Angel of the Fiddle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie South
Chicago based violinist Eddie South, The Dark Angel of the Fiddle, actually can be classified as worldwide.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Navigators Part 6
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
The Navigators Part 8
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:47
The Navigators Part 7
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:11
The Navigators Part 5
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:56
The Navigators Part 4
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:52

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