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Distance
From: melodically challenged
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Facetime!
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Living In New Orleans Isn't Like Living Anywhere Else
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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3am Sunday morning introspections on life in New Orleans from the only sober guy in the French Quarter - the all-night show guy at the community ra...

Bought by KPRG


  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 34:13
  • Purchases: 1
2022-09-16 Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, WLPR , WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 13
220916: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival, 9/16/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the cl...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Untold Story of GREAT Theatre's 25th Season with Executive Director Lacey Schirmers
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with GREAT Theatre’s new Executive Director Lace...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 26:00
708-Guard Down(494)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth, Credit: NASA
In 2018, July and August were cloudy and rainy in both Arizona and Hawaii sidelining the worlds two most productive asteroid hunting surveys. A cos...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
707-Ringed Dynamo(493)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Saturn, Credit: NASA
Even though humans have been aware of the planet Saturn from from the dawn of history this beautiful object still offers mysteries for us to explore.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
704-Mini-Moons(490)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Captures Mini-Moon, Credit: K. Teramura UHIFA
There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, RADIOLEX, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
701-Touching The Sun(487)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Parker Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
698-Aliens?(484)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Planetary Alignment over Australian Radio Telescope, Credit: Graeme L. White & Glen Cozens (James Cook University)
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts li...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Jerusalem Calling from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We bring you a piece from our partner Kerning Cultures about the Palestine Broadcasting service. We revisit the history of the station and its role...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Shin Yu Pai
From: New Letters on the Air
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Taiwanese-American poet, Shin Yu(Yee) Pai(Pie), reads from her seventh collection, ADAMANTINE, and her earlier work, SIGHTINGS, in which she not on...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WJCU


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations: Sidarta Ribeiro
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with neuroscientist and author Sidarta Ribeiro about his book The Oracle of Night, which investigates the art and sci...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:57
The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Forget Everything You Know About Texas
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be wha...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
7. Braunau
From: Maria-Cristina Marras
Series: Micro
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A trip to Braunau.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:03
Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents Jewish music from Ukraine as well as Jewish music with distinctive Ukrainian roots.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Practicing Gratitude
From: melodically challenged
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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene B...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
BEER.
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Frank Zappa said, “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some n...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5

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