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Will we make it to a safer age? Humanity balances between two paths: self-destruction or self-revelation. Our guest, Christine Barrington describes...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 57:16
Scott Mason recently went through a serious health crisis during which he had a profound, life-changing dream. Scott gives a riveting description o...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
Today, we’re traveling to Block Island, the vacation spot off the southern coast of Rhode Island. Block Island is also famous for its offshore wind...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 2
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 3
We feature the very first rock and roll songs but only those you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because by removing the overwhel...
Bought by KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, and WQCS
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 02:57:06
- Purchases: 5
These are songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of so this is a deep dig into the non-commercial arts instead of pop music as de...
Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 02:57:11
- Purchases: 4
Today, we have a thought experiment on our minds. What would happen if we stopped creating greenhouse gas emissions right now? Would climate change...
- Added: Nov 16, 2020
- Length: 03:59
In the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in fashion companies that offer to rent their clothes. These services have been touted as the perfect...
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 03:53
Why are so many people talking about banning straws right now, and how much of a difference does skipping the straw actually make?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 30, 2020
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
A book about the French Revolution. OK, you may be thinking, there’s nothing new to learn, however, not only has new revelations come to light in t...
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Season 2 of The Nocturnists, hosted by physician Emily Silverman, explores stories from the world of medicine.
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 01:23
First in Joseph Marshall's groundbreaking Lakota Westerns series, this riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, oth...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 07:53:16
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Providing prisoners a chance to earn a college degree may just be the antidote for our lock-them-up society. America is the clear winner among indu...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
