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Byzantines, Saracens and Saladin
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
StoryCorps: Wally Funk and Mary Holsenbeck
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Wally and Mary, circa 1993. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Mary Holsenbeck.
When Wally Funk was 8 years old, she jumped off the roof of her barn while wearing a Superman cape, hoping to fly. That desire never left her, and ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
Start of Summer With Hamburgers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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For those of a certain age, the start of summer isn't about going to the beach because a life's worth of hamburgers means never again wearing a bat...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 28:15
David Lynch, Diving Deep with Transcendental Meditation
From: Interfaith Voices
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Where does David Lynch go to find the dreamscapes that mystify and unnerve us? The director of 'Twin Peaks' pulls back the veil with writer Mitch H...

Bought by 'The Sea', XRAY.fm, and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 3
Outside of Jazz Fest
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: New Orleans Street Economy
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Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:40
Number One Party School?
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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A story about party life at Syracuse University, which was ranked number one party school by the Princeton Review in 2014.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:15
St. Croix Radio Callaloo
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Travelogue Media Podcasts
Caption: St. Kitts Masqueraders at Agrifest 2017, St. Croix, Credit: J. Klarl
An audio mash-up from Agrifest 2017 featuring Kamani Tait (KT the Arch Degree), Duane Howell, St. Kitts Masqueraders, “Auntie Janice” Tutein, Carl ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
America's Defining Moment
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Election Day eve, 2016...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:40:48
Loud, Drunk & Angry - Episode 75
From: Robert Kern
Series: Loud, Drunk & Angry
Caption: Loud, Drunk & Angry Logo
This week's episode features new music from The Watchers, Geezer, Deep Purple, White Light Cemetery, Accept, Overkill and John Garcia. Plus classi...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:41:12
  • Purchases: 2
Syrup-titious
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Whether he likes it or not, Sam has become the go-to source for all of our questions, from showing him photos of weird bugs we want him to identify...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 21:41
161210 Mexican Rocanarol And A Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's show, Mexican rocanrol from the 1950s and 60s plus a radio musical. You know, in a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:43
  • Purchases: 1
161210 The Only Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 43:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Opinions Presents: Best Albums of 2016
From: Sound Opinions
Series: Sound Opinions Specials
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If you're a music fanatic, the end of the year means one thing: best of lists! Sound Opinions hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot reveal their favorit...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KVSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WRGY, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
161203 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A retelling of the Shane Fenton story and a whiff of Mardi Gras is in the air down here in New Orleans.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:27:20
Is Time Travel Possible?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Well is it? This is the very subject Rob MacClanahan explores on his pilot broadcast of THE TIME TRAVELER on 95.1FM KFOK Georgetown...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:18
F. Murray Abraham - Phobias
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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F. Murray Abraham, reading a list of Phobias

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 4
Garrison Keillor - Menu of a Homecoming Feast, from Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Garrison Keillor, reading an excerpt from Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 2
Dick Cavett - Strange Medical Syndromes
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Dick Cavett, reading a list of Strange Medical Syndromes

Bought by KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 3
John Lithgow - Royal Epithets
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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John Lithgow, reading a list of Royal Epithets

Bought by WUFT and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 2
F. Murray Abraham - Collective Nouns from the Animal Kingdom
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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F. Murray Abraham, reading a list of Collective Nouns from the Animal Kingdom

Bought by KUER, WUFT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 6
John Lithgow - Shakespearean Insults
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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John Lithgow, reading a list of Shakespearean Insults

Bought by WUFT, PRX Remix, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 3
Garrison Keillor - Biblical Begats from the Testament of Matthew, King James edition
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Garrison Keillor, reading a list of Biblical Begats from the Testament of Matthew, King James edition

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
F. Murray Abraham - Manhattan White Pages
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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F. Murray Abraham, with a dramatic reading of the Manhattan White Pages.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
A Betrothal by Lanford Wilson
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lisa Emery
In A BETROTHAL by Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson, two middle-aged iris breeders bicker - and bond - at a flower breeders' competition. Perfor...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 36:09
Renée Fleming - Characters from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: The Phone Book
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Renée Fleming, reading a list of characters from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1

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