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It's Earth Day on The Children's Hour, and we meet Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM) who explains how National Parks and National Wildernes...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
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Records from the 1950s and 1960s featuring rain in the title.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:00
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This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KWSO, WTJU, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Max Reger
We continue our month of exploring Romantic musical giants by going to Germany and the music of Max Reger and some of his contemporaries.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An unprecedented week in pop music history.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:14
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Artists in the rock'n'roll era who scored 4 or more top ten hits in the span of 12 or fewer months

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:53
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On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, tune in for a work by Kerry Politzer for solo piano titled “Microclimates,” and a buzzing work by ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG, WDAV Classical Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 7
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17
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This week we highlight the work of American organist and pedagogue Damin Spritzer. Spritzer has enthusiastically brought a new awareness to some co...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Rock'n'roll era records featuring strings!

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:33
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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In the pop music Baby Boomer Era, 1955-1985, there were 600 #1 hits. 210 of them were #1 for one week, 1-4-1. Several had significance for one reas...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Trump was President from 2016 To 2020, but he’s never won an election. He lost the nationwide popular vote in 2016, but still made it to the White ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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In a bygone era, the overture at the start of a Broadway musical created excitement and anticipation, teasing us about what was to come. Listen to...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
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Why? How? America bought and brought all these oddball hits to #1. Many off-the-wall. Others weird premises. But they all had "cart topper" status.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks i...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 1
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
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The second half of the 20th century saw the beginning of the culmination of American Black Music styles explode into the mainstream. But the genesi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Valentine's Day - Heart records!

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:00
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60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:22
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This time on The Children’s Hour, we explore the skin we are in. We are joined by Dr. Holly McGee and Dr. Nina Jablonski, who have written a book t...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTNA, KECG, RadioFreePalmer, KDLG and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6