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EDM in America
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Underground is Massive," which charts the foundation and development of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Revived
From: KRCL
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With Oppenheimer winning 7 Oscar awards, nuclear testing and its side effects remain in conversation. Recently the U.S Senate passed a bill to prot...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 11:49
Subcontinental Synthesis
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Subcontinental Synthesis," a collection of essays that document a brief period where a Moog Synthesizer ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
Clean Energy U.N. SDG #7
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Women's History- Post-Dobbs Crisis: Visions for Abortion Access & Radical Care
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Fake clinics are feeding people disinformation, laws are criminalizing doctors and patients, and the climate of stigma and fear has only worsened s...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
David Bowie
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
I&I - The Gen Z gender divide
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's episode is our February edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Wa...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 18 - 'Placemaking For All' feat Mark Lakeman
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards one another.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 2
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Judith Weisenfeld on race, religion and psychiatry
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Dr. Judith Weisenfeld, professor of religion at Princeton University. Dr. Weisenfeld is an expert on African American religion...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
Jenny Odell on Saving Time
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features., Credit: Penguin Random House
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Season 1, Episode 16 - 'Safe Spaces' feat Jeanette Berry
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Can we make the music business safe for everyone?

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 3
Season 1, Episode 15 - 'Being You' feat Anil Seth
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The science of consciousness.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 3
Squeeze This! A Cutural History of the Accordion in America
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we discussed the book "Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America," which investigates the rise, fall, and retur...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Burns - Beyond the Range Episode 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Beyond the Range
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Rebecca Burns hops on the Beyond the Range podcast to talk about economic diversification in the state!

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 33:12
Michael Wolraich discusses "The Bishop and the Butterfly:Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty cloth...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 25:44
Well of Souls: The Hidden History of the Banjo
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
Marjorie Kelly on the Capitalism Crisis: “Wealth Supremacy” is Killing Us
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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"Capital bias" prioritizes wealth over people and the planet. What are the consequences? That question is at the core of “Wealth Supremacy: How the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, Radio Catskill, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Season 1, Episode 11 - 'Doughnut Economics' feat Rob Shorter
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Imagine an economy that works for everyone.

Bought by KSTK, WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 4
Spaceships Over Glasgow
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we looked at the autobiography of Stuart Braithwaite, founder of the long-running post-rock band Mogwai. We listened to some of th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Maritsa Georgiou - Montana’s national news anchor
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Maritsa Georgiou, award winning journalist and national correspondent for Scripps News. Maritsa's reporting on the planned rem...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 28:22
  • Purchases: 1
Toward a Theory and History of the Loop
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we looked at the book "Now and Forever," one of the first book-length investigations into the many ways that loops (repeated audio...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
I&I - The 2024 Prediction Show
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's episode is the January edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce War...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
Chant Melodies
From: Brent Johnson
Series: King of Instruments
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Composers have been using chant melodies to create new music for hundreds of years. This week we explore some modern works all created around 4 an...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:00
The B-52s
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town," the first critical biography of "the world's greatest party band," wh...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1

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