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A fresh sound from TS Monk, rooted in tradition, describes openers for this episode while Lonnie Johnson sings and plays a 1948 hit. Then as if Duk...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, WYAP, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 6
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It's blues time, featuring many artists I've seen live. Spending the 2000's going from one blues fest to the next, for a moment I wanted to be a mu...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, WKAR, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Real bebop bookends the swing and free eras for starters, without playing either. Monk is composer way before he was was known, Illinois Jacquet no...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WKAR, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 6
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In this week's episode Jaap Van Zweden conducts Britten's Violin Concerto, featuring Simone Lamsma, on violin, as well as Shostakovich's Symphony N...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:58:28
Caption: On the air at WGDR-Plainfield/WGDH-Hardwick, doing The Origin Series, Credit: Brian Aust
Part 2 in the Origin Series explores some of the most legendary musicians ever to saw on the strings in the genres of bluegrass, jazz and the slipp...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Tributes from one composer to another have been a favorite practice since the Renaissance. In this program Fiesta showcases delightful works dedica...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:30
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Sending out the old & ushering in the new with a year-end themed set of JazzGrass.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:34
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Instrumentalists have been enjoying the company of other players since the early beginnings of music. Jazz guitarists in particular love to hear ot...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 59:19
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Experience global music without a filter in this mix. A mix made of many styles; from rare South African funk to electro cumbia, New Egyptian pop, ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:18
Caption: Professor Wade Graham
The Western United States has entered a very difficult drought season. Nevada’s water supply is in danger. Realistically California is not any bett...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious revisits a two part conversation with Gregory Cochran, physicist, anthropologist, and co-author of the book “The 10,000 Year Explosio...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
Caption: BONGOS!  A gift from Lexie and Cletus left at the station today., Credit: Lexie and Cletus Montgomery
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950's to the 1970's. The golden age of Americana when race records and popul...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:56:22
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
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Live Local. Live Small. Create big changes in your home, your finances and your community.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
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Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
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Radio Curious discusses the current state of affairs in the Nuba Mountains in Northeast Africa, with Professor Sam Totten, author of “Genocide by ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Concussion injuries to our children is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious as we visit with Dr. Robert Cantu, the author of “Concussions and...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious takes you to France as it was in 1932 where Maya Schwartz was born to an immigrant family. 1939 to 1945 her family was torn apart by...

  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
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This week scores to films about dream vacations, and vacation nightmares.

Bought by WCRI, KPVL, WCPN, WEKU, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 12:56
Caption: http://www.alz.org/brain/09.asp, Credit: Alzheimer's Association
On this edition of "Culture Clique" Gerise Thompson, Regional director for the Alzheimer's Association visits with KQAL's Terese Tenseth. Chances a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 46:19
  • Purchases: 1
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In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: La Chaire Trepidante: the 19th century vibrating chair invented to relieve Parkinsons's symptoms., Credit: Christopher Goetz
Treating Parkinson's with a vibrating chair; reading the rumblings of the earth; and a hip-hop battle of cosmic proportions.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Jevne attempts to carve a tree – out of a tree – with hilarious results.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3