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Died in 2022
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This is our yearly end of the year show tipping the hat to musicians who passed. Here is our list of players who died in 2022.

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wilson Dairy Restaurant / Helen Zia as baby with Mom Bing
In the midst of our stress and trauma dealing with the sometimes harsh realities of life, its hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell ...

Bought by WFHB and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Willie Nelson - Me & Paul
From: Joyride Media
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The history of Willie Nelson and Paul English - the untold stories of a fabled friendship between a singer and his drummer. Inspired by Willie Nel...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUT, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
American Veteran: For a World War II navigator, the Army provided a sense of purpose
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: 2nd Lieutenant Edward Field, veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II., Credit: Insignia Films
When Edward Field was in a plane crash during World War II, an act of altruism saved his life. Field – who grew up gay and Jewish in New York – fou...

Bought by WTIP, Texas Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
AG 22-45: The Paul Simon Jazz Songbook, 10/31/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Songwriter Paul Simon has been delighting our ears with melodies for over 50 years. This week on Afterglow, we’ll explore jazz interpretations of h...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bobby McDaniel - The Lynyrd Skynyrd Crash
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week is an interview with Bobby McDaniel, one of the first people to arrive and assist in the crash of the Lynyrd Skynyrd airplane, October 20...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, WLPR , KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
AG 22-43: Beverly Kenney: Born To Be Blue, 10/17/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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The name Beverly Kenney might be a footnote in jazz history, but this singer had an intelligent, alluring and melancholic style that’s among the be...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
All Mixed Up:Tributes & Celebrations
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Black Power, Credit: Bill Russell RIP
A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:07
Chapter Nine – Inside Studio 54 – The Real Story of Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Chapter Nine: The Battle for the Liquor License In spite of the raid on Studio 54 in December 1978, the club remained open and hotter than ever f...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2022
  • Length: 22:18
Both Sides Now from both sides of a life: Essay by Paul Ingles
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Joni Mitchell at Newport Folk Festival - 2022
Joni Mitchell's re-emergence onto the stage at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival had music specials producer Paul Ingles joining the multitude of musi...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 30, 2022
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of the Partnership between Jules' Bistro and Anna Marie's Alliance in St. Cloud
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 speaks with Anna Marie’s Alliance Executive Director C...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
AG 22-28: Eckstine’s Proteges: Arthur Prysock and Johnny Hartman, 7/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Johnny Hartman's 1964 Impulse Album Cover
Few singers had as much of an influence on the next generation as the suave, full-throated “Mr. E” Billy Eckstine. This week, we’ll explore the wor...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Surviving The Bataan Death March (Narration by Jack Doepke)
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by WWNO, WITF, WABE, KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 20
The Apple Seed - A Titanic Survivor's True Story from Storyteller Pippa White
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, storyteller Pippa White will tell us the tale of a woman who, faced with a long ocean voyage, makes kind of a stub...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Time to 1.5 | 9 | Prayers of Steel II
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is one of the most u...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 46:32
  • Purchases: 1
AG 21-22: The Songs That Won The War, 5/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
004 Helen Wheels
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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The life and music of Helen Wheels. Her band performed at CBGB's in New York during the height of the punk movement in the 70s, before her untimely...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
Metro's oldest pet cemetery reflects enduring sentiments towards furry friends
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A gravestone for a pet named Juan Jose at Memorial Pet Cemetery with the epitaph "so small, so sweet, so soon.", Credit: Matthew Schneeman, KFAI
The metro area hosts a variety of cemeteries and mausoleums. You may have a favorite – Uptown’s Lakewood perhaps? Or maybe a smaller, more secluded...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:34
Women's History Month: Indigenous Women and Leaders’ Lessons on Community Care, a Tipi Town Approach
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: Teaching Anne Frank
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An expert panel discusses the impact the Diary of Anne Frank continues to have on generations born long after her death. Among the panelists is Ron...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:29:38
StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.
Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1

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