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Classical Composers & Musicians of African Descent Vol. II
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Florence Price, Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Price
This is a classical music program highlighting composers and musicians of African descent. This is one part of a limited music series.

Bought by KWAX and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:02:29
  • Purchases: 2
An Hour of Jazz (Duke Ellington)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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An Hour of Jazz (Duke Ellington) is a short history and a musical dedication to Jazz legend Duke Ellington.

Bought by WEAA, WNCU, WNMU-FM, KTXK, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 6
Cocktail Effect Remix
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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In this remix, you’ll hear updated information, restructured content, and a new mix to explain how we parse voices and music in a noisy scene. Mu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 15:19
  • Purchases: 1
Lifting Scores Lowers Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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What we actually learn from school and why it might be at risk.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
Education gives us hope, BUT...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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The purposes and expansion of the educational system.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 2
Great Expectations part one
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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When Miss Havisham, a strange but wealthy old woman asks for Pip to come play, he has no choice but to go. What he experiences changes his life and...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 20:04
Real Country Time Episode 1
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Real Country Time
Caption: Real Country Time, Credit: Larry W Jones
Real Country Time is an uninterrupted selection of songs from the roots of country music.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 10:06
Why We Pay Attention
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Hear neuroscientist, Jacqueline Gottlieb, discuss some of the cutting-edge questions in neuroscience: What is attention on a neuronal level? How do...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Neuron Channel Makes You Dumb
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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New research reveals a strange fact – a special type of neuron channel (HCN) makes us dumb. Hear about basic neuron mechanics and the supposed func...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
How We Hurt Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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A short episode about the things that hurt the learning process: why distractions are distracting and the conflict your brain encounters when given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
The King of the Blues: The Music of B.B. King
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The great B.B. King passed away on May 14, 2015. He was one of the greatest Blues entertainers of all time. B.B. King’s recording career began in 1...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 1
Start Class
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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As a teacher, the first step to student learning is starting a lesson. This is an incredibly chaotic time for teachers! Hear the thinking behind th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 4
Synaptic Pruning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we get better at tasks? In this short episode, we describe an important mechanism of learning: pruning away neural connections.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz's Lost and Found (Ep. 17)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: A disc from the Savory Collection , Credit: Chester Higgins/NY Times
In this hour, we've got the best long lost finds from jazz's lost and found bin—from a recently discovered cache of forgotten 1930s radio broadcast...

Bought by KHNS, WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
Radio Retrospective: Irving Berlin's White Christmas
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
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You'll never hear the song White Christmas the same way again.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KUOW, WOUB, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 14
When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row
From: Radio Diaries
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For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:55
  • Purchases: 4
The Jazz Brunch: A Delightful Afternoon!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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THE JAZZ BRUNCH is a limited one hour Jazz music series containing a variety of artists. One show contains three segments leaving room for radio st...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Brunch: Hammond B-Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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THE JAZZ BRUNCH is a limited one hour Jazz music series containing a variety of artists. One show contains three segments leaving room for radio ai...

Bought by WTIP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 2
James Brown:The Godfather of Soul
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: James Brown - In the Jungle Groove, Credit: Polydor Records
This is the best of JAMES BROWN from the 1970s and the FUNK! James Brown (Born: May 3, 1933, Barnwell, SC Died: December 25, 2006, Atlanta, GA) T...

Bought by KVNF, KPIP-LP, Prairie Public, WVAS, and WJAB


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:47
  • Purchases: 5
Sly Stone: The Alpha and the Omega of the Funk!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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SLY STONE (Sylvester Stewart) is Rock, he is Funk and he is Soul. He is the one benchmark that all of the other bands and musicians mimic when they...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WSLR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 2
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Summer Soul, Summer Funk! (with a dash of Jazz)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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Its "Hot Fun In The Summetime" when you air this show. During this summer break, It summer madness with Sly Stone, Kool & the Gang, James Brown, WA...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Translate Sound to the Brain
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Sound gets funneled down your ear canal and... then what happens? You've heard about drums, tiny bones, and maybe a spiral shaped sensor, but not l...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:49
  • Purchases: 1
SHAZAM!
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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Avery Wang helped found the app, Shazam. This app is now part of our cultural consciousness as a flagship app for all smartphones because it is so ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Two Lives of Asa Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:13:55