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The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
220429 Rock and Roll Songs That Young Arnold Schwarzenegger Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The bottomless pit of my music library includes a handful of songs from 1963 Austria that are indistinguishable from the best of American rock and ...

Bought by KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
Joined at the Boot - Italy that is.
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe and Eddie
Giuseppe Venuti and Salvatore Massaro, best known as Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang in jazz circles, started a trend that had a large impact on the 1920...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Alexandra Fuller– "Growing up White in Africa"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Our guest in this program lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia from 1972 to 1990. Her fat...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
EP193 Fathers And Sons
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Fathers And Sons was a classic recording from 1969 from the Chess Records label

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
Nixon at War: How Vietnam Led to Watergate
From: Nixon at War
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17th, 1972), writer, historian, and Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt A...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Spokane Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 40
220423 Teenager and Finnish Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Chellos
The "teenage angst" song is the standard issue rock and roll song but there is also the "teenage understanding" song that offers lyrics reflecting ...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:40:39
  • Purchases: 6
Operation Boulder from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Since 9/11, US governmental agencies have poured millions of dollars into spying on Arabs, Muslims and Arab Americans. Their surveillance has chang...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP192 Veterans of the Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Both of these veteran artists were born in 1939 and are still performing in 2022.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:02
On the Trail of Bunny
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
With his talent, he could have written his own ticket. Instead, Roland “Bunny” Berigan had a very wayward life full of bad decisions and numerous m...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Edward Fiske – "The College Admissions Process"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Fiske Guide to Colleges Edward B. Fiske, the education editor at the New York Times, is the author of “The Fiske Guide of Colleges.” His book ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
220416 This Music, The Heart of Radio.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Roddy Jackson Then
Defining the first rock and roll song has been passionately argued because to find "the first rock and roll song" requires ignoring tons of music t...

Bought by KPRG, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:28
  • Purchases: 8
Songbirds
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Featuring those pioneering women of the 1920s who put voice to jazz, from Ma Rainey to Mae West.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Stoen– "Litigation to Save Old Growth Redwoods"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The California law prohibiting unfair business practices is the basis for the 2003 lawsuit brought against the Pacific Lumber Company by the People...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
220409 Radio as Art and Art as Civilization
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Page and the Riff Raffs
An inspired, heartfelt show. Based around an essay on radio as art and art as both a personal way of making a better life and civilization's savio...

Bought by KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WQCS, KPRG, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:55:05
  • Purchases: 6
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
From: New Letters on the Air
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U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (2019-2021) talks about her Native American heritage and reads poetry from her multi-award-winning book IN MAD LOVE AN...

Bought by KBIA, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Louisiana Piano
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Clarence Williams
Two very different styles, but both learned their craft in New Orleans. Clarence Williams preferred the jug and washboard style, while Luis Russell...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
Dr. Sally Shaywitz – "How to Identify and Overcome Dyslexia"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level Approximately one child in five suffers from dysle...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
220326 Answer Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 5
Hawk or Bean
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
"The man for whom Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone." That is how Coleman Hawkins was introduced at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival. This program i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Jones- "Tracing The Y Chromosome"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Y, The Descent of Men, Revealing the Mysteries of Maleness Professor Steve Jones, author of the book, Y, The Descent of Men, Revealing the Mysteri...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Azzurri the Bachelorette
Hi, I'm Jim Lange and this is the Dating Game for dogs. In the post-WWII world, this music that was later called "Rock and Roll" was simply popula...

Bought by WQCS, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
Alston Chase – "Who is Ted Kaczynski?" Part 2
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: July 1, 2003 & July 8, 2003 Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist “Harvard and the Unabomber: T...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Steve Post-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Steve P{ost
Interview with film maker Rosemarie Reed about Free Form Radio Pioneer, Stevie Post on her documentary "Playing In The FM Band-The Steve Post Story...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:04

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