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Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
D-day: 150,000 Men, and One Woman
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.

Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 8
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220320 The Dating Game for Dogs and Oil Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Azzurri the Bachelorette
Hi, I'm Jim Lange and this is the Dating Game for dogs. In the post-WWII world, this music that was later called "Rock and Roll" was simply popula...

Bought by WQCS, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:45
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #149 - The Music of Cowboy Bebop
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll explore the music of Yokko Kanno and the Seatbelts, and their music for Cowboy Bebop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KRSC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Notes from the Jazz Underground X-Mas Special (encore)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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a bunch of Christmas classics and not yet classics from John Zorn, Moe., Wynton Marsalis and more!

Bought by KRPS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #83
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll get weird with Dweezil Zappa, we'll get funky with Zony Mash and the Sugarman 3, we'll go Honky-Tonkin' with Astroturf Noise, and ...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Radio-586-AZ-Roots-06-10-to-06-16-20-show-355
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Johnny D and Bacpac's Phoenix Sound 5 of 6. What has led up to this segment evolved from “Arizona Sound series,” “The Phoenix Panorama,” “The Arizo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Instance 1
From: Will Hardwick
Series: Brilly Barner Broadcast
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Presenting: the Brilly Barner Broadcast. An interdimensional radio show that tells the stories of bubble 6298 Felis.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 10:08
Traveling Music
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Howard Johnson's
On the road home with Art Linkletter, Warren Oates, Jon Hamm, Jessica Pare, Marshall Efron, Bob & Ray, John Witherspoon, Ice Cube, James Taylor, Jo...

Bought by WLRH and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Puppets & Jim Henson
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Loren Kahn Puppet Theater, Credit: Gary Newell
This week on The Children’s Hour you’re invited to join us for a live broadcast from the opening of the Jim Henson exhibit at the Albuquerque Museu...

Bought by WLRH


  • Added: Nov 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1710 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11-07-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A goodly sized group starts us off brassy and swinging with Pete Christlieb and Linda Small followed by a piano/vocal duo ballad sung by Tony DeSar...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WKAR and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 7
My Magical Monsoon Belief System
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out and so here is what I left...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
The Write Question - Simeon Mills - 386
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Simeon Mills discusses his novel about growing up robot in the 1990s, The Obsoletes. He also reads two short selections.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 3
59: Flatworms
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Monday
From: William Taylor
Series: Mystrey Monday
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Mystery Monday is a series of one hour program that features vintage radio mystery programs from the 1930's through the 1950's.

Bought by KMUN, WCNY, WWNO, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 4
180825 Worthless Super Powers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Super powers that cause others to shrug and think, "who cares." The super power to move clouds with your eyes, to turn oxygen into carbon dioxide...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:32:49
Episode #125
From: Sigil Of Brass
Series: DJ Scooby's Sound Of Wonder
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World music show presented with spoken links by a Yorkshireman with an impenetrable accent - Think 'Uncle Peter' but musical. For more on the show ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
#774- One hell of a newscast- Money Matters- Humor piece
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Preview- not money news, off the topic, just a fun newspiece about news reporters by Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti. Funny piece but preview fir...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:18
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1557 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/01/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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In our continuing tribute to the mighty Mose, an anatomical description definitely causes us to reflect a la Monk mood, Coltrane’s tenor giving tha...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ig Nobel 2016 -- Groks Science Show 2016-09-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
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Ittai Eres and Unjin Lee discuss past winners of the Ig Nobel prizes, and build up hype for this year's awards!

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 34:42
  • Purchases: 1
Golden Girls Gone Wild!/ Fast Food Nation/ God's Hotel/ Our Listeners Weigh In/ Casserole Queens
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Golden Sisters Segment 2&3: Michael Moss/Fast food nation Segment 4: Victoria Sweet/God's hotel Segment 5: Listener Feedback Segment 6: ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Enough with the "War on Christmas"
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The so-called “War on Christmas” is in full swing. Militant Christians say the well-known evergreen is a Christian symbol for a Christian holiday, ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
195-Flat Earth Society Reincarnation
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Flat Earth Society is being replaced by Climate Change Deniers.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Show 516 - Times Square
From: Thomas Florek
Series: The Tom and Doug Show
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This week, Tom and Doug are doing their show from Times Square. They are in Times Square because they seek to make sure that New York City retains...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00