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Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing America...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 04, 2022
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 1
The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 36:05
La la la, dum di di dum, a wop bop a loo bop a wop bom bom - what are all those non-words doing masquerading as words in songs? Hrishikesh Hirway f...
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 13:44
The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Heartfelt, energetic, and down home. Heralded by CMT Edge as "one of the most promising bands on the bluegrass scene," the music of the Nashville b...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 9
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 10:21
- Purchases: 1
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Dec 22, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 2
Hey! It's Halloween, it's Jazz and it's a party! Join Igor as he presents Halloween Jazz classics from John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Lambert Hendrick...
Bought by KHNS, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, Delmarva Public Media, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 07, 2011
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 12
Never Judge A Show by it's Pilot: Journeyman.
- Added: Oct 12, 2007
- Length: 10:17
A commentary on how we're losing what has been in effect the hometown baseball team of millions of Americans.
- Added: Oct 07, 2007
- Length: 02:34
A commentary noting that two National Football League coaches have made a small but possibly significant move that could undermine human billboardi...
- Added: Aug 20, 2007
- Length: 04:38
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 02:19
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 18, 2007
- Length: 02:04
A commentary noting that if pitcher Kenny Rogers did indeed use pine tar to gain an illegal edge on batters in the World Series, he was only doing ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2006
- Length: 02:48
Who needs baseball when we've got cricket, our first national pastime?
- Added: Mar 23, 2006
- Length: 03:12
