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Episode 2: World On Fire
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-43: Jazz Women Of The 1980s, 10/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Slimy, Slithering, and Squiggling Things
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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A snake slithers at your feet. A slimy frog leaps from a lily pad onto your head, and a fantastical serpent squiggles past — so begins a creepy wee...

Bought by KTXK and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Songs of Thanks and Praise
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Against The Grain
From: Things That Go Boom
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In this fall special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: how Indigenous knowledge is challenging the military industrial complex.

Bought by KCBX, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
THE TRAILER TO: The Lasting Impact of ROBBIE ROBERTSON
From: Paul Ingles
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[please do not broadcast this unless you are also committing to broadcasting at least one hour of the full program at PRX ] TRAILER TO : THE LASTI...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 12:23
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Morehead State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 29
NL 23-27: A Big Band Fourth of July, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
2023-03-17 A Global Just Transition – For Whom?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
230317: A Global Just Transition – For Whom?, 3/17/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Live From Cain's Music Special
From: Kelly Burley
Caption: Live From Cain's
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Fullbright is featured in this music-focused special recorded in front of a live audience at the historic C...

Bought by KWGS, KGOU, KOSU, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 4
December Birthdays (Vol.3)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A third tour-de-force of musicians that are known for their contributions to bluegrass, jazz and the sonic space in between who were born in the mo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...

Bought by KMUW and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
NL 22-44: Jazz Haunts for Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Smoke dreams, sorcerors, ghosts, and stalking monsters! We'll experience those paranormal jazz encounters with those spectors through the music of ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (SINGLE HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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NOTE: THIS IS A DIGEST OF ONLY PART OF THE 2 AND 3 HOUR VERSION OF THE SPECIAL SERIES "THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE". THE SINGLE HOUR VERSION I...

Bought by KUNM, KRVS, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE (Hour 1 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: JACKSON BROWNE - 2021, Credit: Paul Ingles
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE RUN IF YOUR STATION IS RUNNING THE *TWO HOUR VERSON* of THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE. THERE ARE ALSO 3-Hour and Single ...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, North State Public Radio, and KUHF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Autumn Serenades
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz with an autumnal theme, from Nat King Cole, Kenny Dorham, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington with Frank Sinatra, Sonny Rollins, and more.

Bought by WCVE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 20

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