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JazzStories: Catherine Russell

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"Singing lead is all about you. The focus is on you. Your name is on the ticket. The people have paid to see you...So you are responsible for you...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU

Added: Nov 07, 2012
Length: 14:27
Purchases: 4

Episode # 27 - Castaway: Keith Powell Beyland

From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs

Our 27th castaway on October 8, 2012 was Keith Powell Beyland. Keith serves as the Artistic Director/Founder of Dramatic Repertory Company in Port...

Added: Oct 19, 2012
Length: 01:23:43

Episode # 24 - Castaway: Michael Kimball

From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs

On September 17, 2012 our 24th castaway was MICHAEL KIMBALL, the author of the bestsellers "Undone", "Mouth to Mouth" and "Green Girls", thrillers ...

Added: Sep 26, 2012
Length: 01:25:50

The Legacy of a Peace Camp for Middle-East Girls (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Caption: Israeli May Freed, Creativity for Peace Director Dottie Indyke, Palestinian Jwana Ghaleb, Credit: Creativity for Peace

Today on Peace Talks Radio, we revisit the Creativity for Peace Program, whose camp for adolescent girls from all sides of the middle east conflict...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KZYX, NPR Illinois, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

Added: Sep 12, 2012
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 6

Episode # 20 - Castaway: Deb Gallagher

From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs

Our 20th show on August 20, 2012 features DEB GALLAGHER as our castaway. Deb is s popular on-air personality on WMPG Radio in Portland, Maine who i...

Added: Aug 28, 2012
Length: 01:28:22

Episode # 14 - Castaway: Ceci Gilson

From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs

Ceci Gilson has been a voice on numerous college radio stations since beginning her studies at the University of Massachusetts. She’s worked at 4 ...

Added: Jul 23, 2012
Length: 01:17:25

WorldCanvass: Documenting Humanity/A Sense of Place

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

Added: Jun 05, 2012
Length: 01:48:40

More than an office

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places

It's just a simple office, but for some students it's like a home, complete with an "adoptive mother." It's a routine place made special.

Added: Mar 21, 2012
Length: 02:27

Homosexuality and Schizophrenia

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Radio Curious visits with Robert Dole, a Professor of English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in Quebec, Canada, about his pe...

Added: Nov 08, 2011
Length: 29:01

JazzStories: Regina Carter

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more

Added: Jun 13, 2011
Length: 07:23
Purchases: 6

JazzStories: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Caption: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams - Monterey Jazz Fest., 1971, Credit: Paul Slaughter Photos

“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more

Added: May 13, 2011
Length: 10:02
Purchases: 6

Barbra Hernandez - Guillain-Barre Syndrome

From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views

One day in 2008, Barbra all of sudden collapsed on the floor, having lost the ability to use her legs. She was diagnosed with one of the most sever...

Added: May 13, 2011
Length: 25:15

JazzStories: Lee Konitz

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Caption: Lee Konitz , Credit: Frank Stewart

Widely admired for his original sound, the 83 year old alto saxophonist Lee Konitz is a master of improvisation who continues to travel the world s...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more

Added: Mar 11, 2011
Length: 11:01
Purchases: 6

JazzStories: Hank Jones

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Caption: Hank Jones, Credit: Frank Stewart

Over the past eighty years, the late Hank Jones has been described as eloquent and impeccable. However, his career wasn’t marked by the normal road...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC and more

Added: Mar 07, 2011
Length: 10:54
Purchases: 7

JazzStories: James Moody's Mood for Love

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Caption: James Moody, Credit: Frank Stewart

"Moody's Mood for Love" is one of the most memorable and recognizable solos in jazz history. But for James Moody, the song contains a bigger history.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more

Added: Jan 20, 2011
Length: 08:15
Purchases: 8

Jazz at Lincoln Center: James Moody

From: Murray Street Productions

In memory of saxophonist and flutist James Moody, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio offers its edition featuring Moody's 75th birthday celebration with ...

Bought by KMUW, WJSU, WEKU, WVRU, WNCU and more

Added: Dec 10, 2010
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 9

Coming of age "illegal"

From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series

Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson

When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR

Added: Dec 08, 2010
Length: 06:55
Purchases: 5

Off The Bus

From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen

Carmen Delzell gets of a bus in Texas at 4am. She's coming back from Mexico with $5.00 in her pocket. She puts her bags in a shopping cart and re...

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KCRW

Added: Nov 24, 2010
Length: 05:23
Purchases: 3

Hidden Kitchen Mama

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens

Mothers and kitchens. The food they cooked or didn’t. The stories they told or couldn’t. In honor of Mother’s Day we linger in the kitchen.

Bought by KWMR, XRAY.fm, WABE, PRX Remix, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Added: May 04, 2010
Length: 08:23
Purchases: 11

Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"

From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America

Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

Added: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 05:11

Guido on the Beginning of Empty Bowls

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me

Guido shares the story of the beginning of Empty Bowls, the fundraiser for Second Harvest Foodbank and The Community Cafe, now in it's 9th year...

Added: Apr 12, 2010
Length: 08:02

Pat Surface, from Ely, about "Holy Wind" on Centerstage MN

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota

Pat Surface has been creating music in Northern MN for over 30 years and his new CD with The Boundary Water Boys is called Holy Wind - an album ins...

Added: Apr 12, 2010
Length: 17:21

Musical Journeys

From: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis
Series: Art for Ears

Featuring programmatic music of Richard Strauss (selections from Don Quixote); Liszt (an excerpt of Vallée d’Obermann from the Swiss book “Years of...

Bought by KVLU