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DC 1732
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Old Friends

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
DC 1730
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Gimme three sets from the early 70s

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
TimeTravel: Life Aboard The Tall Ship - U.S. Brig Niagara
From: A. Emily Ralph
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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...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 10:04
DC 1727
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Country, blues and...hey wait! I thought this was a rock show!

Bought by KRZA, KSRQ, KKWE Niijii Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
DC 1706
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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71-74-70

Bought by WOUB and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
DC 1650
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Putting the "classic" in rock.

Bought by KMXT, Harford Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Campaign '68
From: American Public Media
Caption: Robert F. Kennedy
Many see similarities between the presidential election campaign of 2016 and one almost half a century earlier. The 1968 presidential campaign was...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KERA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 26
Jazz Covers for Broadway
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Some wonderful jazz covers of well-known show tunes; Cole Porter, Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hammerstein and more

Bought by WVTF and WRR


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 2
Refusenik Love
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Like many Soviet defectors, Olga left a life behind when she emigrated to the U.S. in the early 80's. This episode of ARRVLS tells the story of lov...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
King, Pizarro and Botany Bay
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The immortal words of Martin Luther King Jr... Pizarro, the vanquisher of the Incas -- is vanquished. And the British First Fleet sails to Sidney...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:56
Ep.03: The Rainbow Warrior & Out of Fashion Fishing
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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The Rainbow Warrior comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began? What is a FAD or Fish Aggregating Device? We ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
UpFront Soul #2016.07 - Black History Month - February 15-21, 2016
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Roberta Flack
As we celebrate Black History Month, we feature funk, soul, and jazz designed to inspire and empower from Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Gil Scott...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, KSRQ, KPIP-LP, WJAB and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
Gunther Schuller, RIP: A Life Inside Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Schuller, who died last week at 89, was a prodigious, captivated, sometimes cantankerous prisoner of every kind of modern music: between Beethoven ...

Bought by KMUW and WFMT Station Account


  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Island Stories Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Moorings on Cobb Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 25:24
Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Nila Mack
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 4
Jazz and the Visual Arts (Ep. 9)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
Radio Retrospective: Rod Serling
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Rod Serling, Credit: Wikipedia
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...

Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 5
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
"Motown:The Truth Is A Hit"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this edition of the Cutting Edge, we take a look at the musical phenomena remembered as the Motown sound. Born and bred in the shadows of the Mo...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 1
"Changi Concert Party"
From: Margaret Evans
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
A Conversation with Pete Seeger [about Woody Guthrie]
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pete Seeger remembers his friend, Woody Guthrie. [21:13]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:18
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Gospel Singers, The Paschall Brothers
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Three generations of Paschalls, now NEA Heritage Fellows, have brought beautiful harmonies to their community. [35:21]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 35:22
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Through 2013
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Nelson Mandela
A journey through the past twelve months, this retrospective gathers the major and minor events, the sounds, voices, music, memories, and emotional...

Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, KUNC & The Colorado Sound, North Country Public Radio, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 8
The Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show - Episode 1033
From: Cowboy Jubilee Show
Series: The Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Coleman Hawkins
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins was known as "Hawk" or "Bean" among his contemporaries because of his keen intellect and ingenious approach to common tunes. He was...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2