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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
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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
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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...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
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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...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, WMOT and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Halloween theme show broadcast on Ozcatradio.com (KZCT-FM, Vallejo, CA). It was Electronics Holliday day and I didn't know it. My Ipad decided it w...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:57:23
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Describing revolute joints.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski, 1981, Credit: Irena Jarosi?ska / PAP
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, WETS, KHSU and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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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
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Back to our old tricks, unintentionally nothing from the new millennium even made the cut this day. Instead simple inspiration from one track leadi...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WKAR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 6
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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
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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
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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
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Starting around 2005, a burst of creative energy in filmmaking emerged from an unexpected corner of the world: Romania. The Romanian new wave has g...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
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One can view much of the silent era in movies as a process in which filmmakers gradually unearthed a narrative language appropriate to the new art ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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First impressions may be the most lasting, but contrary to popular belief, they’re often wrong. In the case of the great American poet Emily Dickin...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
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“If you’re listening to this while driving a car, obviously, leave your eyes open.” In this special appendix to our recent episode on psychoacousti...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:35