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Sound Beat episodes for the month of June 2024.

Bought by KVSC, KGLP, WPCA-LP, WFHB, and WYPL


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Jimmy Driftwood, Credit: J Gerald Crawford
Legendary songwriter, performer, folklorist, historian and Ozark original Jimmy Driftwood recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain...

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Arkansauce
A special road trip episode. OHR visits Rogers, Arkansas’ Railyard Live Concert Series featuring post-folk newgrass phenomenon Arkansauce, recorde...

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Love Holler
Ozark original old-time family string band Love Holler recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews ...

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Ribbon fall. Gallery forest. You won't find terms like these in most dictionaries, but they and hundreds like them are discussed by famous writers ...

Bought by WNIN, WPCA-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Featuring- The Artist Spotlight, Brand New Oldies, Fundamentally Instrumental, and Much More!

Bought by KECG


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Employees of the DNR releasing a river otter into the wild, Credit: Carrol Henderson
Next year, Carrol Henderson has a memoir coming out from Afton Press about his 41 years as the Minnesota DNR's first Nongame Wildlife Program Super...

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Eureka Strings
A special road trip episode. OHR visits Rogers, Arkansas’ Railyard Live Concert Series featuring Eureka Springs folk orchestra, Eureka Strings, re...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
For today’s dumb idea, meet Barry Marshall. An Australian medical student, in 1982 he claimed that bacteria cause gastritis… then peptic ulcers, th...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
Wonder drugs have snuffed out some terrifying diseases. But first they must be approved by the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
We don’t hear the word “anarchy” much today, but a century ago it was a worldwide social movement. In 1894 Charles Rodolf wrote: “The true anarchis...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
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Is there something inherent in English that makes it the linguistic equivalent of the Borg, dominating and consuming other languages in its path? N...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, KECG, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Marty Stuart
Five time Grammy Award winning traditional country, bluegrass, & Americana music legend Marty Stuart and his band, The Fabulous Superlatives, recor...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Books were rare treasures in the Middle Ages, painstakingly copied out by hand. So how to protect them from theft? Scribes sometimes added a curse ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WPCA-LP, KTXK and more


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:08
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Featuring- Mister 1960's Record Review, Let's Hear It For The Girls, Vocal Group Greats, and Much More!

Bought by KECG


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Images of birds flutter inside lots of English words and phrases, from "nest egg" and "pecking order," to proverbs from around the world--including...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KTXK, WPCA-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN and more


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
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The new Downton Abbey movie is a luscious treat for fans of the public-television period piece, but how accurate is the script when it comes to the...

Bought by WPCA-LP, WNIN, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15

  • Added: Apr 28, 2024
  • Length: 34:31
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Will Gunselman
A special road trip episode. OHR visits Rogers, Arkansas’ Railyard Live Concert Series featuring singer-songwriters Will Gunselman & Ashtyn Barbar...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: The Creek Rocks
Springfield, Missouri based Ozark original husband & wife duo The Creek Rocks recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, A...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Featuring- The cozy Covers Comparison Corner, Rock And Roll Revivalism, The Grown Ups' Table, and Much More!

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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So you've long dreamed of writing fiction, but don't know where to begin? There are lots of ways to get started -- creative writing classes, local ...

Bought by KTXK, KVSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Front Porch
A special road trip episode. OHR visits Rogers, Arkansas’ Railyard Live Concert Series featuring Eureka Springs hard-driving folk quartet, Front P...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59