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What we least understand we fear the most. The way to overcome our personal insecurities is to interact with the world - Andrew Solomon
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Pianist, composer, vocalist and ultimate entertainer Fats Waller always said his favorite instrument was the pipe organ.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Bandleader and violinist Bert Ambrose lead, by far, the most distinguished dance band in England in the latter 1920s and early 1930s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
This is a sampling of the women who performed on Broadway and recorded studio sessions in the 1920s.
Bought by WJCT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, WGTE Public Media, WCPN and more
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 9
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
We’ve all read about “the Boston Tea Party,” as well as the famous “shot heard ‘round the world”. These two important events occurred 28-months apa...
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- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, he had to announce the death of W.E.B. Du Bois. The crowd fell into tears.
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- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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As jazz emerged as the popular music of the 1920s, it was common to have the trumpet as the lead instrument, however, a few pioneering musicians wa...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Researchers are changing the way we experience our world. They’re engineering scents that stimulate lost memories, they’re searching for the elusiv...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Chicago based violinist Eddie South, The Dark Angel of the Fiddle, actually can be classified as worldwide.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Cultural critic and entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki poses the question, “What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
In the first decade of jazz, many trumpet players attempted to reach the level of musicianship set by Louis Armstrong. Two, in particular, were sta...
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- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
As fruits go, the pawpaw is about as unique, historically important, yet mysteriously undervalued as it gets.
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 2
We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution.
This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Several of the songs heard in this program were never sold over the counter. If you knew the artist, you’d have to request it from the clerk, who w...
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- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the state of Maine. According to a Gallup Poll last year, citizens rate their legislator...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic of catastrophic proportion. Today, two-thirds of adults, and one-third of children and adolescents –...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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For much of the past century, men have operated under “Male Code,” a rigid set of rules guiding their behavior that equate to masculinity with stoi...
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- Added: May 28, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Phil Napoleon is considered a primary pioneer of jazz trumpet, and his playing profoundly affected Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke. He was one of t...
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- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
