WFIU

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WFIU Public Media has been broadcasting from the Bloomington campus of Indiana University since October, 1950. The station is a charter member of the National Public Radio network, and along with 90 other stations, it carried the premiere broadcast of NPR's in-depth news program, All Things Considered, on May 3, 1971. WFIU now broadcasts classical music, jazz, and news and information 24 hours a day. WFIU can be heard throughout Southern and Central Indiana: * 103.7 FM | Bloomington * 100.7 FM | Columbus * 101.7 FM | French Lick/West Baden * 98.9 FM | Greensburg * 106.1 FM | Kokomo * 95.1 FM | Terre Haute and on WFIU2 * 101.9 FM | Bloomington * and online at wfiu.org. Our mission: We inspire, inform, and involve. Our values and activities are born of the purposes and hopes of Indiana University and of our listeners. For us, this work is a public trust.

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The Soul Kitchen is a two-hour, weekly program that blends sweet soul, funky jazz, old school rock, Americana, and world music into a flavorful gumbo for the ears and spirit. Mixing these genres of sound with a dash of message gives listeners a menu of music that comes from the soul. Join host Brother William Morris for "tunes with a groove and music with a message."

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Oct 21, 2022
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Two time Grammy Award winner Sylvia McNair presents a fun program of classical music and stories about the multitudes of conductors, singers, instrumentalists, and composers she has worked with over her storied career.

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Sep 03, 2020
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"Produced in the style of a modern cinematic full-cast audio play, The Ernie Pyle Experiment! is a thirteen-episode radio program/podcast chronicling Ernie Pyle’s pre-war work as a travelling columnist for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper syndicate from 1935-1942."

  • From: WFIU
  • Updated: Oct 27, 2020

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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An Unexplored—and Giant—Cave in Canada

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
Climate Change—Worse than We Thought

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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This week, the third in a series of four programs that explore canons and fugues from the earliest written music to J.S. Bach. Join us for “round ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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What do the elaborate Mardi Gras parades of New Orleans, the famous Carnival of Venice, and the Jewish holiday Purim all have in common? Why, costu...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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This week on Harmonia composers remember their mentors, colleagues, and members of the aristocracy through memorial tributes known as tombeaux - li...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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In the late 1960s, young musicians such as The Free Spirits, the Fourth Way, and other now-forgotten fusioneers made the first attempts to blend ja...

Bought by KLCC, WVAS, and KLCC


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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America in the 1920s: Wall Street was on the rise, cops were on the take, jazz was in the air, and alcohol had been banished—but it certainly hadn’...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WVAS, KLCC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 2