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There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:31
The talented writer and actress Greta Gerwig proves that she can also excel in the director’s chair, in her debut film, Lady Bird. The film begins ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:14
This week we explore the enneagram. It is becoming a big deal. What is this enneagram and why are counselors and spiritual directors finding it so ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Weekly logic, word, letter, or math puzzle. This is #236, for air the week of November 13th. This week's theme is word play. The puzzle has been pr...
- Added: Nov 12, 2017
- Length: 02:00
Poncho Sanchez is at the top of his game with Latin Spirits, Marion McPartland lays it in the groove and JP Soars is under a Memphis full moon. Bi...
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- Added: Nov 10, 2017
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 7
Guitarist Pat Martino has recorded so prolifically and somehow we’ve had a slew of his 1970s material so we begin there, continuing thankfully with...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 6
It looks like the big blockbuster of the summer is not a superhero or science fiction film, but, surprisingly, a movie set during World War II. Dun...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:33
Actor and comedian Kumail Nadjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon wrote a screenplay about their own very unusual courtship. With Michael Showalter d...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 03:49
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
Dizzy Gillespie wrote “You got to know the rules before you break ‘em.” From his orchestra’s rhythm section was born the MJQ. Sixty years later oth...
Bought by KRZA, WVBI-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 7
Sandip Roy has a different perspective on India's version of Halloween.
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
The impeccable British jazz critic/writer/musician Leonard Feather assembles a studio of all-stars to open this program, followed by funky guitar b...
Bought by KBBI Alaska, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Sep 19, 2017
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 8
When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 05:52
This week, as promised, I’m continuing my discussion of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ famous debut film from 1941. Last time I talked about why the f...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:45
In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
We’ve got another eclectic combination of styles and moods his session. Pure Paul Desmond begins with his dry martini sax sound, Lizz Wright contri...
Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more
- Added: Aug 01, 2017
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 6
Back to our old tricks, unintentionally nothing from the new millennium even made the cut this day. Instead simple inspiration from one track leadi...
- Added: Jul 04, 2017
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 6
We lost a lot of people last year. One of them particularly close to my heart was the Iranian writer/director Abbas Kiarostami, who died in July of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:38
Writer-director James Gray seems to be getting better and better with each film. His first five movies, starting with Little Odessa in 1994, all ta...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Ousmane Sembéne was a very important figure in the history of film. Born in Senegal, he attained prominence as a novelist in his 20s and 30s, but w...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:25
