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Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish celebrates the coming holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year for trees, with Jewish tunes about inspired by the holiday and tree...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Staff have six hours to move one first family out and a new First Family in, and it has to be seamless.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 07:55
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In September of 1896, the town of Crush was created for the sole purpose of crashing two steam trains together. Things did not go according to plan.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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David Lindstrom is not a person, but a whole musical group led by Matt Nelson in St. Joseph, MN. With a sprawling and atmospheric sound, their new ...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 17:28
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We catch you up with an update on fluorescing animals and then jump right into new research on Long Fin Damsel fish that use Mysid shrimp to farm a...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
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With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
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What are your employment rights and where did they come from?

Bought by PRX Remix and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 33:37
  • Purchases: 2
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A philosophical examination about the nature of religious belief, using the example of creationist and a woman who left fundamentalism.

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 41:20

  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
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One of the more important places for the modern American diet may be... an obscure army base in Natick, Massachusetts. The Combat Feeding Directora...

Bought by KVLU, WMMT, and WABE


  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 3
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Reclaimed Soul host Ayana Contreras brings us rocket-fueled soul music with outer space themes.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
Caption: Francis Scott Key (shown here in a portrait by Theodor Horydczak) was far more than just the author of what would become our national anthem., Credit: Library of Congress
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Scientists working on the Webb Telescope say it's so revolutionary, it’s like “our generation’s Apollo.”
Come winter, your neck of the woods may be cold. But guess how frigid the James Webb Space Telescope will be when it launches in 2018? 400 degrees ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jon ("Jonsi") Thor Birgisson and Billy Holiday
Jon ("Jonsi") Thor Birgisson of Sigur Ros spins some of his favorite music -- everything from Iron Maiden to Django Reinhardt! Available for free ...

Bought by KEOS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yefim Bronfman
The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 is a part of nearly every pianist's concert repertoire, and for many Russian pianists, it's often the first ma...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :26
Caption: Vadim Repin
Beethoven's music is not always about the DRAMA. You can hear sweetness and joy, emotion and humor, fire and passion, and in the case of the third...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2008
  • Length: :19
Caption: Sir James Galway
It is, or was at one time, classical music’s forbidden word – or act: "Crossover"... playing music that's not 100% classical. Flutist, Sir James ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2008
  • Length: :26
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It's tough... aggressive... and only a few inches tall.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Up, up and away with Japan's littlest-known WWII weapon

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:41
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The Amazon region is changing rapidly. Experience a different change.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2007
  • Length: 05:20
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Music from The National, Polyphonic Spree, Travis, Patti Smith, Lightning Dust and two John Lennon covers.

Bought by KTRL, WUKY, WFSU, and KISU


  • Added: Jun 21, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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UnDisney-fying a tiny critter of huge -- and heavenly -- importance.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 2
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The story so far of the computer artscene.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2004
  • Length: 49:21
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Do you know your state song?

  • Added: Dec 15, 2003
  • Length: 03:21