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‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’
From: Tradeoffs
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
Oddballs: All #1 Hits
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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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
Negro Baseball Leagues
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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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
Without This Brave Woman, We May Never Have Heard of MLK Jr.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
From: Tradeoffs
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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
20240219: Negro Baseball Leagues, 2/19/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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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
Black Roots on the Harlem Jukebox
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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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
You Gotta Have Heart!
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Valentine's Day - Heart records!

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:00
60th Anniversary - The Beatles - February 9, 1964
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:22
The Skin We're In
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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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
5 ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024
From: Tradeoffs
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 18:49
2024-02-05: The Skin We're In, 2/5/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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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...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
The Day the Music Died
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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65th anniversary of The Day The Music Died

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:28
20240129: Read And Ride, 1/29/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Teen Tragedies
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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The phenomenon of 1950s and 1960s teen tragedy records

  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:56:20
The Song Writers - 4 Teams
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Song writers are behind every hit we have ever heard. Here are four songwriting teams that gave use hundreds of our favorite songs in the '60s and ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Most Important Court Decision of the 20th Century Didn't Last
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S....

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
A Taste of Italy
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Rock'n'roll artists of Italian descent

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:53
Our Shaking Planet
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Our planet is alive, and not just because it enables life to live here, but also the land on Earth is constantly shifting and moving. In Kids Crew ...

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


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20240115: Our Shaking Planet, 1/15/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Our planet is alive, and not just because it enables life to live here, but also the land on Earth is constantly shifting and moving. In Kids Crew ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
1964: The Year That Changed Pop Music Forever
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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With the British invasion of 1964 a new era of pop music was ushered in. But it was more than the Brits making noise in 1964.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Let Them Eat Undelivered Pizza
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Minimum wages went up in a number of states on January 1. Pizza Hut is crying foul and punishing delivery drivers for the hike by firing them all. ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Year in Review for Women: Losses, Gains, and A Special Award
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too.  But one gets our personal...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Just Look Up
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Astronomy begins at home, just looking up and seeing what we see. The Kids Crew meet with Professor Raman Prinja, Head of Astronomy and Physics at ...

Bought by KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Guns or Butter: How 'Bout Kids or War Toys?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The term Guns or Butter? goes back to World War I and protests over prioritizing the production of munitions over the production of dairy products....

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:01

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