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The Mixtape Episode 166 - Introspective songs
From: Patrick Brickson
Series: The Mixtape with Pat Brickson
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As I was pondering the theme for this week’s show, I started to reflect on the season. Fall marks a turning point in the year and so my music choi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:51
The Nature of Vision and Color
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especia...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Regrets
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: Folktale of Regrets, Credit: Julia Meek
Some folks say that regretting the past is like chasing the wind, and this week on Folktales, we have a world of music to prove it!

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Like a Hurricane
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the Western Mojave around Joshua Tree National Park and all the way out to Kelso and Las Vegas and...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Summer Dream, Crooked Rain
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Medicine Show
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, ...

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Folktale of Misfortune
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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It's setbacks, hard knocks and obstacles of every sort we deal w/ on this Folktale of Misfortune--in the finest of musical perspectives. Ready for ...

Bought by WFIU, WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Liberty
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Liberty, Credit: Julia Meek
It's independence this Folktale salutes, with a look at freedom, and its pursuit, around the musical globe. A powerful tour de force? Hear for your...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WFIU, WCPN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 12
Folktale of Shadows
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Shadows, Credit: Julia Meek
“There are moments when we all step away from the light," says author Gume Laurel III, and this week's Folktale of Shadows will show you what that ...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Most Luxurious Vacations
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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For the last decade, Mary Murrin lived and worked in Europe as a Cruise Director on the most luxurious riverboats afloat - traveling the Rhine, Dan...

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:10
Folktale of Hardship
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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Obstacles of any sort are bitter pills to swallow, and what you make of them is often the final, and finest challenge. We're sharing musical reflec...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Folktale of The Wheel of Fortune
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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Like the song says: "What goes up must come down--spinnin' wheel got to go round..." And where does it land us? Hot on the trail of Lady Luck, in a...

Bought by WFIU, WLPR , WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 6
Fresh Talk: Ballroom Marfa
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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On a Spring 2012 road trip in the American Southwest, Cathy Byrd meets members of Ballroom Marfa’s creative team to talk about their vision for a D...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
Folktale of Brave Journeys
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Brave Journeys, Credit: Julia Meek
This episode of Folktales paves the way to enlightenment with musical offerings of encouragement from around the world. Hope you can join us for th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 12
"HOW CAN YOU SATIRIZE A PARODY?...AND OTHER PARADOXES OF POLITICS AND JOURNALISM".....told through narration, music and soundbites
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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In this episode...if you want to get a straight answer from a politician, try asking a straight question. ( it probably won't work...but at least y...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 56:04
Folktale of Friendship
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Friendship, Credit: Julia Meek
A bit of Aristotelian advice, good buddy: "The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend." That's what this week's Folktale is all about.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 11
A Visit With a Free Black Women - Boston 1840
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Gridlock
From: War News Radio
Caption: Baghdad's traffic, Credit: Photo courtesy of AFP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Calling All Owls
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Using cellphones to call up the wild world of owls

  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:44
Agincourt
From: KVNF
Series: Belief Systems and Other B.S.
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Recent disputes about various features of this historical battle highlight the difficulty of being certain about any past event

  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:33
A Cook's Notebook: Beach Mangos
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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eating mangos on the beach

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Jennifer Cecil Moore, and NET Radio (Nebraska)


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4