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Unusual Jewish Tunes
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Jewish music has developed new melodies, harmonies and styles over many centuries. Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for some of the most creativel...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stage Moves
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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You all know the Windmill from Pete Townshend. You know the Duck Walk from Chuck Berry but there are so many more stage moves named after musician...

Bought by WKPW, Harford Community Radio, KTRL, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Oh My, One Big Toad!
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:02
208: Thunderclappers
From: Trace Kerr
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It wasn't just fame and glory that inspired Lewis and Clark's expedition across this great land. It took a "medication" so powerful that people wou...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 04:58
207: Cockroach Personalities
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Anything that scatters when you turn on the light...does it have a personality? Is the cockroach urge to run an indicator of a bold or timid world ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Tyto alba
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:43
186: Sudden Genius
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine waking up from a nap to discover that you have the ability to compose music in your head. What a shock that would be! There are people who ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 2
137: Fred vs The Mississippi
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On July 6th, 1930 Fred Newton dipped a toe into the Mississippi river and explained to reporters that he planned to swim from Minneapolis to New Or...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
29: Social Conventions
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking ab...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 20:19
Marah Gilensis
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at dawn and then off and on...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:20
Water For The Birds
From: KXCI
Series: Southwestern Trails
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During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
White Nosed Coati
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
Melvin Brewing
From: Beer Guys Media
Series: Drink This Beer
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What’s your favorite Melvin? This is a question that co-founder Jeremy Tofte always wanted to ask people. And because of that, a failed restaurant...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 21:21
Bush Muhly
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Bush Muhly is the species Muhlenbergia porteri. There are over 40 species of muhlys found in Arizona and across the southwest.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:08
Getting Down and Dirty with the Classics
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Jonathan Crocker, Credit: renee wilde
William Shakespeare famously said “ all the worlds a stage” and Jonathan Crocker has taken those words to heart. For the past 26 seasons, this Yell...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Lost Art of Chinking
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: chinking, Credit: renee wilde
The innovate art of chinking, filling the gaps between the logs in a log cabin, is being lost on the present generation. Modern restoration efforts...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:47
Playboy
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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In light of the news that Playboy magazine will no longer feature full frontal nudity. We are gonna talk about and play music by female musicians ...

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
VoxPod #6 - Staples of Summer
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This show highlights two summer traditions that bring people out to celebrate - parades and music festivals.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
VoxPod #7 - The Lure of Gnomes and Homes
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show refutes frequent stigmas of both home schooled students and garden gnomes.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
2015 Holidays for Quiet Folks with a Surprising Sinatra Centennial Twist
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: What's to Love About...?
Caption: Writer/performer Sharon Glassman, Credit: Katie Weisberger
Get the scoop on twelve holidays for quiet folks in 2015 from humorist Sharon Glassman. All delightful. One surprising...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Top 100 Americans?
From: Jeff Karr
Series: The Jeff Karr Show
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What's wrong with this list?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
Rediscovering Creative Lettering: Simple Rediscovery #512:
From: Teosson Wells
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For those of us who attended grammar school long before the arrival of the in-classroom computer, one of the greatest rites of passage (right up th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:08
  • Purchases: 1
Chaotic Parliament
From: wendy hendrickson
Caption: A carriage passes by the front of the Austrian Parliament traveling along the Ringstrasse., Credit: Photo by: Wendy Hendrickson
Politics doesn't run smoothly when the language to be used is left as an option.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
How green is your grass?
From: peter stock
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An update -- with a twist -- on ecologically-friendly lawn care. (18m35s)

Bought by KVMR and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 18:35
  • Purchases: 2