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Three stories about that elusive quality - musicianship.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:13
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Invisible by Paul Auster.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:13
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 02:30
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:46
Hour One of the program "Ballad Singer" features 11 original interpretations of old ballads, most of them to be found in the Child Ballads collecti...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 54:38
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD.
A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Billed as the world's smallest woman, Gloria Rhoden of St. Mary Jamaica understands the nature of true beauty.
- Added: Oct 14, 2016
- Length: 23:02
We think that with today’s technology, we’re better informed. Therefore it follows we have more knowledge. Not so fast.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
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
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history.
Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 07, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 25:17
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...
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Kelsi Singer shares some of the incredible discoveries that she and the NASA New Horizons team are making. We also discuss a contentious issue—...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 14:35
When refugees come to a new country the language barrier that they face can be problematic. One challenge they face is being able to report crimes ...
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 03:20
What we least understand we fear the most. The way to overcome our personal insecurities is to interact with the world - Andrew Solomon
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 6
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
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
