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Blue Dimensions K42: Connie Han Jazzifies The Myth Of The Goddess Inanna
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Music from pianist Connie Han, exploring the theme of the goddess Inanna of Sumerian mythology

Bought by KJZX-Austin, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Blue Dimensions J27: TimeOut-Takes from Dave Brubeck and new piano jazz from Emmet Cohen, Lisa Hilton, and Matthew Shipp
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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previously unissued tracks from Dave Brubeck's classic 1959 album "Time Out" and more piano music from contemporary jazz pianists

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Bill Withers: Just As He Is
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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A deep look into the late Bill Withers early life in music that set up the making of his debut album, "Just As I Am." Please consider this free on...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, WOMR, WKMS, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Christian Argument from Prophecy Debunked
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Robert J Miller
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Murders have been performed too terrible for the ear.
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: l-r: Rex Daugherty (Tybalt), Aaron Bliden (Benvolio), and Brad Koed (Mercutio) in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Aaron Posner, Folger Theatre (2013)., Credit: Teresa Wood
Elizabethan Street Fighting

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:18
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Once upon a time science and the supernatural were not so far apart.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:42:26
Doctor Visits
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Generational discussion on the changes we have seen from the older generation doctor visit down to our future telemedicine.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:00
Tracking Subversives: Alan Wald On the Development of the Literary Left
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 57:14
Gregory White Smith, co-author of “Van Gogh: The Life”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Many observers including his biographers would say he’s the most famous artist in the world. Master of sunflowers and starry skies, Vincent Van Gog...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Science writer Mary Roach talks about "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Birth of an Answer
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....

Bought by KENW and WABE


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Author Diana Gabaldon: The When & Why's of the World of the "Outlander"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Painter of Light and Industry
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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J.M.W. Turner is perhaps the most important British painter--you would surely recognize an image of Tintern Abbey--and yet his life story has remai...

Bought by KENW and KKRN


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Give War and Peace a Chance (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Father of PR
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When big business news breaks, public relations teams try to get out in front of the story. But that wasn’t always the case. PR in the 19th century...

Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 3
Slaves Waiting for Sale in Richmond
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...

Bought by KENW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans and Disabilities (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Clay Risen reads from The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for The Civil Rights Act (5/8)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Korda and "Ike: An American Hero"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chronicling an immigrant community: Professor Nikos Alexiou's research on Greek America
From: Michael Nevradakis
Series: Dialogos Interview Series
Caption: The Dialogos Interview Series, produced by Dialogos Radio, Credit: Michael Nevradakis
An interview with professor Nikos Alexiou of CUNY Queens College in New York City, who discusses his extensive research on the historical developme...

  • Added: May 26, 2013
  • Length: 35:33
The Temperament of FDR
From: With Good Reason
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Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Author Robert Hicks and a Civil War cemetery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1
Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
American Hipster
From: With Good Reason
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Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:27