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837: The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe / 838: Walk With Me, 10/14/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke recor...

WoodSongs 1038: Chontadelia and Sultans of String

From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs

Caption: Margarita Redondo of Chontadelia on the WoodSongs Stage.

On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Afro-Colombian fusion band Chontadelia plus Canadian genre-hopping gro...

Bought by KDLG, KENW, KBRW, WEJP-LP 107.1, KUAR and more

Senior Voices Rock with Alive & Kickin

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: Senior Singing Ensemble Alive & Kickin, Credit: photo: courtesy of Alive & Kickin

Alive & Kickin is a rockin’ senior singing ensemble with all the members over the age of 60. Directed by founder Michael Matthew Farrell, the singe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio

Trans in the Eyes of God: Joy Ladin, Mesma Belsare and Michelle Brooker

From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Trans in the Eyes of God

Religion isn't always a welcoming place for trans people, but we hear the stories of some who have found a place for themselves in Judaism, Hinduis...

Bought by WPSU

TimeTravel: Life Aboard The Tall Ship - U.S. Brig Niagara

From: A. Emily Ralph

In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...

Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part I

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Gunther Schuller is a composer, conductor, horn virtuoso, jazz historian and critic who had the nerve and the authority years ago to decree that “a...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE

if music be the love of food?

From: PhilipDavid Ellwand

Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

Autism Grows Up

From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here

Caption: Freddie Topete at Adult Transition Program, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio

2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award winning one-hour documentary explores what's happening twenty years after a sharp rise in autism rates. Thousands of chi...

Bought by WLRH, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU, KICI Iowa City, WERA-LP and more

Combining Musical Traditions

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions

Teenagers of the modern United States focus primarily on their own society's music and traditions. Brandon decided to deviate from this social norm...

Bought by KRZA

KUT's Views and Brews: Leonard Cohen-A Life in Art

From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix

The Cactus Cafe was packed for this magical evening. We hope you enjoy this Views and Brews Remix highlighting four of Cohen’s tunes along with the...

Bought by Prairie Public

Episode # 29 - Castaway: Dawn McAndrews

From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs

On October 22nd our 29th castaway was DAWN MCANDREWS, the Artistic Director of The Theatre at Monmouth. Dawn is an accomplished director, producer,...

Episode # 26 - Castaway: Peter Turner

From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs

On October 1st our castaway was fine furniture maker PETER TURNER, who lives in South Portland, Maine. What's unique about Peter are the ways in w...

Youth Radio Institute: Fontezia Walker (American Graduate)

From: WUNC
Series: American Graduate

The series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes with a story from Fontezia Walker.

A Treehouse to Remember

From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: Teen Sanctuaries

Nyseem Smith is a junior at Benjamin Franklin High School. Besides Philly Youth Radio, there’s another after-school program in North Central Philad...

Bought by WHYY and New Hampshire Public Radio

A Horse Named "Buckwheat"

From: Rogi Riverstone

What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...