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First Poet Laureate of Belfast Sinéad Morrissey: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Can You Dance to That?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: John Held, Jr.
In the 1920s, the answer to that question was an important factor in the success of a song. Every few weeks a new dance was introduced, and fans lo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Songs of Richard Rodgers
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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Superb songs from the catalog of Richard Rodgers as performed by current and past jazz greats.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:01:30
Musician's Spotlight - Altan- 644
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh, singer, fiddle player and founding member of the legendary Irish group Altan visits with host John Floridis and reviews the g...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
By Any Other Name
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Whoopee Makers
They were best known as The Whoopee Makers, but they had the habit of adopting new names at the drop of a hat. The Lumberjacks, Louisville Rhythm K...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of The Silver Screen
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of The Silver Screen, Credit: Julia
It's Lights! Camera! Action! AND music, this edition, as we travel the globe for slices of life from the film world that tell an especially fine Fo...

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 4
Spinoffs! Sharing NASA Technology
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA Spinoff 2016 Book, Credit: NASA
In its nearly five decades, NASA has created or improved thousands of technologies, processes and innovations. Dan Lockney is in charge of making ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Sailing the Canyons of Titan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini radar image of flooded canyons on Titan, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
Steep canyons on Saturn's moon Titan are filled with liquid methane. That's the discovery just announced by an international team of Cassini scient...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Essayist and Fiction Writer Thomas E. Kennedy
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Magazine Award winning essayist Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his approach to essay writing, particularly in his collection RIDING THE DOG: ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Arthur Phillips discusses the influence of Shakespeare
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Arthur Phillips
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
History of the Jukebox
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Can you find a jukebox anymore? Do they still work? We are gonna talk about the history of the jukebox and remember a time when all you needed was ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The All Species Day Special
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: 2012 All Species Day Parade, Credit: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/2012-all-species-day-25179253.jpg
Celebrating life on Earth every day of the year!

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:45
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: (Inter)action
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Last week we heard from the Courtney brothers who gave us some great options for our next interview on The Rough Draft Diaries, but before we carry...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:16
George Martin
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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What do you know about the 5th Beatle? The fifth Beatle was George Martin, the producer for the band. We are gonna tell you about his life, his bac...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Why You Can't Get Tickets
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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On this episode of Rock School, we are gonna talk about a new study done by the New York Attorney General to explain why you can't get tickets to t...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
2016 Anniversaries - Show #2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week is the second part of the two part series of anniversaries for the brand new year of 2016. So what happened in 1986? 1996? 2006? We are g...

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, KMUD, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Dulcet Tones
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
Those beautiful female voicalists who became pioneers in the art of jazz voicing in the early 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving 2015
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This is the Thanksgiving edition of Rock School and we will be discussing musicians whose birthday just happens to fall on Thanksgiving this year a...

Bought by WSLR and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - Dweezil Zappa - 610
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Guitarist and composer Dweezil Zappa discusses his first recording in a decade, "Via Zamata", as well as his continuing journey performing the musi...

Bought by WZRE, KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Folktale of Fashion Statements
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Fashion Statements, Credit: Julia Meek
As Isaac Bashevis Singer observed: "What a strange power there is in clothing." Hear for yourself this week on the Folktale of Fashion Statements.

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


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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Songs about the passage of time.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
Musician's Spotlight - Max Hatt and Edda Glass - 608
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Guitarist Max Hatt and vocalist/lyricist Edda Glass discuss the method behind their unique blend of folk, jazz and bossa nova.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Speed of Sound: Cracker
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Kyle Meredith talks with David Lowery and Johnny Hickman of Cracker about their 25 year journey from the ashes of Camper Van Beethoven to writing m...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 4
The Speed of Sound: Sylvan Esso
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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For Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, Sylvan Esso came about as a fluke as much as necessity. Both of their previous bands, Mountain Man and Megafaun,...

Bought by KSUT, KUCB, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Oct 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Quest for Longitude
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Come with us on a visit to the home of the prime meridian for a conversation with the curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich about the race to...

Bought by WQCS, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6

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