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Tinsley Ellis 20th album "Devil May Care"

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 1
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A Blues Band from France.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 1
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
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When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 34:29
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
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Germany’s beer influence has spread around the world, and one of the epicenters of this trend is New York City. There are now more than two dozen b...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 18:35
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An update on the "Playing For Change" music production project that flies around the globe to record an eclectic collection of musicians playing to...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Laura Ann Singh, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Laura Ann Singh, as her very name suggests, seemed destined to sing. In the Kingsport, Tennessee home where she grew up music was ever-present. Her...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 26:21
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Penderecki and host John Clare, Credit: Luis Catan
We'll hear music with Polish masters Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Gorecki, Andrzej Panufnik and Witold Lutoslawski. Don't miss new releases on Warn...

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Life under Trump, Credit: Paola Mardo
In this special report, we explore the lives of eight groups of people under the Trump administration. From undocumented lovers, to a transgender w...

Bought by WCPN, KUER, KSFR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Albert Einstein-Refugee, Credit: David Art
Hear the sounds of The Resistance, from airports, border crossings, street protests and refugees from around the globe mixed with new music, powerf...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:55:59
Caption: Steve Moore
Steve Moore is a slight man, drawn somewhat by the disease he lives with. I’d put him at about 140 pounds. But that might be a little much. Steve’s...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:08
Caption: Italian Food & Wine
Michelle Valentine and her co-host dine & wine at a romantic "al fresco" Italian restaurant. Chef Penelope cooks up fresh Italian-style mahi mahi, ...

Bought by KXCR and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 2
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The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Some people will say they're going to do something, but when you look another person in the eye and vow that it will happen... You've gone to anoth...

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 53:57

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
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He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by Prairie Public, KERA, WEZU, KOSU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 58
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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With help from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, KVSC has sent Wayne Bergerson, host of Frets on Saturday mornings, and long-time KVSC d...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2010
  • Length: 55:47
Caption: Still from the film "Boy "
New Zealand cinematographer Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru, to television ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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BORN IN MANNHEIM. GERMANY IN 1971, XAVIER NAIDOO IS, WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE BRIGHTEST STAR TO EMERGE ON THE GERMAN POP AND SOUL MUSIC SCENE. XAVIER N...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:09