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8 Jul: The Miracle in the Ashes
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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‘Our Lady of Kazan’, a painting of the Virgin and Child, was discovered in the ashes of a fire in the Russian town of Kazan on 8th July, 1579. The ...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:04
Secrets of the Superspectrum
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolu...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sex: The Illustrated History
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: John R. Gregg
Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Sep 23, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Wisdom from the Zombie Apocalypse
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Greg Garrett
Baylor Professor Greg Garrett explains our culture's fascination with zombies.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Chris Foreman at the Green Mill
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Chris Foreman at the Hammond B3
Chris Foreman plays Sundays in Church. And every Friday night, he's at Chicago's legendary Green Mill — playing the funky Hammond B3 organ in a nig...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:21
Elvis Was Our Shabbos Goy
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: Elvis with a cousin and two of the Fruchter children in Memphis, Credit: Harold Fruchter
The story of the Fruchters, an orthodox Jewish family who lived above Elvis Presley’s family in a house in Memphis. They would often call on teenag...

Bought by KFCF FM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 3
No news is good news
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
God Outside The Grocery
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
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"What is your conception of God?" Everybody seems to have a unique answer to this question, as folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld found outside a groc...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Robert Jevne - "Oh Christmas Tree"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Jevne shares "Oh Christmas Tree," a lighthearted poem from the perspective of the Christmas tree itself. Through Jevne's poem, the sheer mor...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
Saint Death
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3
The Mikie Show #46, Wake
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s episode forty-six! Fresh on the heels of episode forty-five. Maybe not so fresh, it’s been a while, but what matters is, you’re here! Yes, thi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
A slice of life with the Church of Pie
From: KALW
Caption: Erin Shannon, “Queen of Pie.”, Credit: Rob Hoey
One San Francisco-based group is taking the worship of food to a whole new level. This past Saturday, about 100 people descended on 111 Minna Galle...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Crashing the Party
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: A recent bat mitzvah bash at Sony Studios included a make-your-own-movie area, a video arcade and a studio tour; guests entered the soiree by walking down an Oscars-style red carpet.
The economic downturn is bringing outlandish bar and bat mitzvah parties back down to earth.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Interfaith Voices


  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Kosher Meets Capitalism: The Business of Shabbat
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Making the Sabbath more friendly... one innovation at a time.

Bought by Remix Radio, KUOW, WFUV, Interfaith Voices, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 5
B-Side: The Extraordinary Lives of Otherwise Ordinary People
From: B-Side Radio
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B-Side's Tamara Keith suits up for a game of roller hockey and brings us stories of ordinary people with extraordinary lives.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2006
  • Length: 25:41
  • Purchases: 1
Indian Jews try to find an identity in New York City
From: Thomas Grove
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Romiel Daniel, a member of the Benne Israel from Israel introduces his background to the Jewish comunity in New York's Rego Park neighborhood

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 1
Hassidic (yes, Hassidic) Reggae
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Matisyahu is a Hassidic Jew, and the front man for his own reggae band.

Bought by KBBI Alaska, PRX, KZUM, KCUR, Audible and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 6
Wt Wd Jss Do?
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Christ shut down in Finland! Reaction.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1