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Interview - Richard Aquila
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week, we will have a discussion with author Richard Aquila about his new book Rock & Roll in Kennedys America. A Cultural History of the Early...

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Songs For the Dead
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This is our Halloween show. For an hour, we will offer up songs that were written for someone who died. Not much more to it than that.

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Dulce Cuarentena
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Edición Especial de la Pandemia en Español
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¿Atrapado en una casa llena de snacks y opciones limitadas para hacer ejercicio? ¿Estás tentado de recurrir a Ben & Jerry en busca de un dulce, dul...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quarantine 15
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Stuck in a house packed with snacks and limited ways to exercise? Tempted to turn to Ben and Jerry for sweet, sweet solace? Experts say this is nor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Tale of Lady Montagu
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Smallpox… the word sounds harmless enough, but this “speckled monster” was the scourge of Western Europe throughout the 1700s. Why did it disappear...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
What's in a Name?
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Viruses cycle through many names. Recently, the World Health Organization has limited the types of words used to label viruses. However, these rule...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Newton-flix
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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The bubonic plague forced a young Isaac Newton from his studies. How did he turn catastrophe into a year of wonders? For one, he didn’t have Netflix!

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Silver Lining
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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2020 has felt like one disaster after another. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Luckily, history suggests calamities spark innovations tha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Founding Documents: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The all-out op-ed battle over the U.S. Constitution.

Bought by KMUN, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
TRIZ
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If I read through a thousand invention patents, I hope I'd learn something, too. This is Episode 63 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal sho...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Parsees and the forbidden stitch
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip discovers the Parsee’s of India, and a forbidden fashion technique.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
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From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Sunday
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Host, Richard Hadlock devotes an entire program to the Blues featuring creative guitarists including the late BB King and Leadbelly among others.

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 57:43
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz at The Black Hawk
From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz
Caption: Richard Hadlock
San Francisco's legendary club, the Black Hawk located at Turk and Hyde street presented a who's who of Jazz luminaries from Dizzy Gillespie, to Bi...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:10
SITPE # 1442
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Back in the groove

Bought by KWMR, KKWE Niijii Radio, KKRN, WLPR , WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Dave Holland Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
Spoken Editions #203: Women Designing Lives of Their Own
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio book excerpts. To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beauti...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
SITPE # 1206
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
Caption: Welcome To The Canteen, Credit: Traffic
In case you hadn't heard...

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, WXXI Rochester, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Longfellow was an immensely versatile poet who excelled at virtually every form and genre from the epic to the sonnet. Find out why.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 20:57
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond the Islamic Golden Age
From: With Good Reason
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Scholars from around the world gathered recently for George Mason University’s forum Beyond Golden Age and Decline: Muslim Societies and Global Mod...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00