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'You're The Reason I Started Doing Performance Poetry'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
Caption: Carrboro High School English teacher Mackensie Malkemes and junior Ryley McGinnis, Credit: Timothy Leow
Ryley McGinnis was shy and hadn't thought much about performance poetry when she entered Mackensie Malkemes' English class at Carrboro High School,...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
'I Still Have That Story. It Gave Me The Confidence To Pursue Writing'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
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Middle school teacher Steven Simmons says he was a little overwhelmed in 2005 when he started his career at Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
'You've Become More Of A Role Model For Students'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
Caption: Northern High School principal Matthew Hunt and senior Caleb Crawley, Credit: Will Michaels
Caleb Crawley is a senior at Northern High School in Durham, where Matthew Hunt is serving his first year as principal. Mr. Hunt has walked the hal...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part II
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:10
  • Purchases: 4
Two Guys on Your Head: Grief
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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A traumatic event in life is like a scratch on a record. Every time the record player, or your mind, runs over the scratch, it skips. This skippi...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
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In Duke Ellington's Eulogy to Billy Strayhorn he wrote, "His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others, but to himself." As we ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz on the Bay - Marian McPartland: Tribute to a Jazz Pioneer
From: Melanie O'Reilly
Caption: Marian Mc Partland, Credit: Yoshis Jazz Club
Jazz singer and radio host Melanie O'Reilly of "Jazz on the Bay" met with pianist and Piano Jazz host Marian McPartland in 2007 when Marian was 89 ...

Bought by WDCB and KCSM


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 2
Cristina's Coming Out Story
From: KUNM
Series: Coloring Your Story
Caption: Cristina Calvillo-Rivera
Generation Justice featured LGBTQQIA Diversity Trainer, activist and storyteller, Cristina Calvillo-Rivera, as she shares with us her own compellin...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
FM Odyssey's Tribute To The Work Of Legendary Record Producer, Phil Ramone With Interview
From: FM Odyssey
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Phil Ramone passed away on March 30th, 2013, leaving a legacy of music he made popular for hundreds of artists like Billy Joel, Paul Simon & Ray Ch...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:17
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Blue Trailings (Parker's Road Song)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anthony Swann likes music, physical books, coffee houses and he lives with his cat, Samba, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Here, Swann presents his poem, "B...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
A Wedding in Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Julia Alvarez
In A WEDDING IN HAITI we follow author Julia Alvarez on a personal journey where her eyes, and ours, are opened to a new country and culture. As Ju...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:35
The People Could Fly
From: Miles Tokunow
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
Northern Lights 2010: A Solstice Celebration
From: Cheryl Willoughby
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Vermont Public Radio's Cheryl Willoughby presents “Northern Lights,” a singing and dancing celebration to welcome the solstice and coming of the ne...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRPS, KRPS, and WUAL


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
FM Odyssey Thanksgiving Show With Special Guests Graham Nash, Glen Campbell and Arlo Guthrie
From: FM Odyssey
Caption: FM Odyssey's 2010 Thanksgiving Show
An offering for Thanksgiving Day or week of. Fred Migliore the host and creator of this 19 year old weekly program puts together several music reci...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WOWL FM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:53
  • Purchases: 19
Matthew
From: Helena Keeffe
Caption: Matthew Wearing Mask, Credit: Helena Keeffe
Matthew and I met during printmaking workshops I led at Laguna Honda Hospital. As the workshops were wrapping up he asked me to work with him to cr...

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 18:45
  • Purchases: 2
Natalie Goldberg - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
VOICES4theSoul Show 731
From: Lori Holladay
Caption: Eric Bibb
AAA music show featuring songs expressing a more meaningful side of life. This hour features an intmate chat with Eric Bibb.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
After the Forgetting
From: Erica Heilman
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This is a story about a Vermont family's experience living with an elderly member's progressive dementia. What happens to love when there is no mem...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 24:49
  • Purchases: 1
KARMAPA IN AMERICA
From: The Tibet Connection
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Emerging Tibetan Buddhist teacher, the 17th Karmapa makes first historic visit to the US

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 17:01
THE OPEN ROAD with PICO IYER
From: The Tibet Connection
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Senior Producer for The Tibet Connection Christal Smith talks to author Pico Iyer about his latest book, 'The Open Road'

  • Added: Jun 11, 2008
  • Length: 18:24
Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady
From: KUT
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This is an edited version of the award-winning documentary that was produced for KUT in 2001. 'Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady' chronicle...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WEKU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KFSK


  • Added: Jul 12, 2007
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 4
European Jazz Stage, Program 5
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: European Jazz Stage 2007
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Exciting jazz from the great stages of Europe

Bought by WART FM, WKAR, WKAR, WKAR, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2007
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 15
European Jazz Stage, Program 4
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: European Jazz Stage 2007
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Exciting jazz from the great stages of Europe

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WART FM, WKAR, WKAR, Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2007
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 16
European Jazz Stage, Program 3
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: European Jazz Stage 2007
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Exciting jazz from the great stages of Europe

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUW, WART FM, WKAR, WKAR and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2007
  • Length: 59:40
  • Purchases: 21
Scenes From a Transplant/Special
From: Long Haul Productions
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One woman's fight against cancer to save her life for her and her family.

Bought by KMXT, WVPE, Jefferson Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5