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Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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Amy Tan will help you see your back yard in a whole new light.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:53
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HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffeesh...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: Blanche Calloway
There are several ingredients that led to the creation of jazz. Among those juicy spices are improvisation, bluesy influences, lead and counterpart...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Book Cover of King Alfonso X, Credit: https://peopleandcultures.blog/2021/11/30/the-musical-biography-of-king-alfonso-x-13th-century-spain/
A musical biography of 13th Century monarch Alfonxo X, which explores his more than 420 poems and songs extoling the miracles of St. Mary while exa...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:53

  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
In this episode, we’ll look at the legacies of the Great Society, the War on Poverty, and LBJ’s Presidency. And we’ll ask, what did the policies t...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 51:01
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Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
In this episode, we explore Medicare’s tenuous and little-known road to realization and the masterminds behind its conception.

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 50:52
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Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
In this episode, we will pull apart the fine details of the Economic Opportunity Act and hear some conversations that illustrate the tension and th...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 51:42
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Caption: Don Redman
Pianist Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton claimed to have invented jazz. You can hear the critics’ rage. Actually, though, that may be partly true. The...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Composer Andy Razaf
The doors closed for the last time just shy of celebrating 100 years. Lady Gaga had the honor of the last performance in 2014. The Roseland Ballroo...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Benny Carter
Indeed, there were a lot of inventive ideas floating around in the earliest years of jazz. Since there were no templets to follow, and no guide boo...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Ukiah, California, a small vibrant community, approximately 100 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge is the home to the Ukiah Players Theater. An ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Four guests discuss their experiences with ritual, and how those experiences deepen their connection to religion, culture, and community.

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Caption: Harry Dial
Some of the most inventive elements of early jazz include improvisation and solo performances. But there is so much more to the parts that weave i...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
The Passage of The Civil Rights Act

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bessie Smith
The speakeasy opened at the peak of the gangster era. Most of Chicago was controlled by the mob. The café boasted a number of top Black performers,...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Freedom Singers with Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, Credit: Dave Gahr
This award-winning 57 minute documentary evokes the history of the civil rights movement through its music and actuality. The late Bernice Reagon l...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Landscapes and Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park, Credit: Mark Byzewski (CC-BY)
Elk mating calls echo through the ages in what is now Colorado's largest national park.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 32:03
Caption: Jazz Dance
The music that became known as jazz swept across America in the teens and early 1920s. To the older population, it appeared to be all elbow and kne...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 1022 (Air Dates: July 29 - Aug 4, 2024) Our guests this week on Art of the Song are Rosanne Cash, and her husband/collaborator John Leventhal....

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Joe "Wingy" Mannone
It’s rumored to be the oldest continuously running jazz club in the country. While the outside may be dark and unassuming, stepping inside is somet...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: 1920s Combo
In the early 1920s, a small collection of musicians was referred to as a combination rather than an orchestra. In America, though, there’s frequent...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1