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From: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 04:38
The decade of the 1970's; the music almost died. But there were a few highlights from "Company" and "A Little Night Music" to "Jesus Christ Superstar"
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
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
Directed intensity from Buddy Rich sounds more like a lift than a jolt, but Horace Silver's loping tempo tells the truth. Mongo Santamaria's Afro-C...
Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 5
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 06:39
Unspun takes a look at Black History and current Civil Rights and equality issues in America with Pamela Spoto, local educator, activist and host o...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 59:56
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
Chad Roeder Speaks to City Council about the Future the Downtown Recycle Center
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 09:33
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
If you play this piece twice, it'll haunt you -- your leg won't stop rockin' no matter how many times you slap it -- and those wireless speakers be...
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 08:55
Meat & potatoes Les McCann & Houston Person begin our journey up and down hills & valleys, then along the Long Yellow Road with Toshiko & Tabackin....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP and more
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 6
How two neighbors do and don't get along. A history of U.S.-Cuba relations.
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
How modern policing problems are connected to a wide range of historical issues.
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 59:02
Extreme vintage hour openers, like bebop in a big band with Eckstine, rare Clifford Brown the other. Singers who would normally not mix, Carrie Smi...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 5
Hacksaw handles Horace who hounds Holloway and Harris, later even Hess. Have to hand it to hoards who happen to hit it hard. Violinist Stephane Gra...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 01:59:51
- Purchases: 4
David Gerrold, author of "The World of Star Trek" and screenwriter of the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode, tells Paul Ingles about the Spock-McCoy-...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KHNS, KREV-LP, and KVMR
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 4
Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 58:08
In this episode, Rebecca McInroy is joined by Dr. Coleman Hutchinson, Dr. Dina Berry, and Steve Wilson to discuss the some of the creative decision...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 59:03
Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 5
A quick look at music as it relates to the Peabody Essex Museum
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 22:31
Violinist Miranda Cuckson discusses her newest recording Melting The Darkness.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 01:12:56
Composer-conductor Marie Incontrera discusses Fred Ho, The Eco-Music Big-Band and going forward as a composer.
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 01:04:38
