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Happy 2024!
From: Brent Johnson
Series: King of Instruments
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We ring in the new year with some friends who've all brought their favorite organ works to the party.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1925 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/21/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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School’s in…OLD school. Bill Evans finds his piano way on Green Dolphin Street, the late Canadian trombonist/leader Rob McConnell leads his Boss Br...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, WVBI-LP, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
The Untold Story of the Legacy of KVSC Station Manager Jo McMullen Part 1
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we at KVSC pay tribute to former Station Manager, teacher, and friend Jo McMullen. This past summer,...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:36
Full Moon Hacksaw #1900 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/29/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We may not be going all out, but we’re letting more in. After a classic Miles recording called “Oleo,” we present the 100th anniversary of the Genn...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
Transgender Experience: Musician, educator details transition in song and talk
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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In the condensed version of our March special, hear about transgender experience from singer-songwriter and foster-parent educator Nick Lawrence. H...

Bought by WORT and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of Louie Anderson through the Laughter of Jason Schommer
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Art & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with local comedian and storyteller Jason Schomme...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
The Imagine Neighborhood Holiday Spectacular!
From: CFC Holiday 2022
Caption: The Imagine Neighborhood Holiday logo, Credit: Committee for Children
In this special holiday episode: Huzzah, hooray! It’s Cardboard Boxing Day! The day when everyone in The Imagine Neighborhood uses the empty boxes ...

Bought by KMXT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WITF


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw #1868 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/17/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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As in a lunar eclipse, our presentation has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Vibraphonist Milt Jackson brings on a fiery performance including sa...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
‘Changeling’ dives deep and sings about transition
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His album, "I Am A Man...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - Clever Counting
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, Odds Bodkin will share an old story called The Runaway Horse, a story in which misfortune changes to good fortun...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
Dionne Warwick: Love Happens to Be God
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dionne Warwick, Credit: Shefik
Love - Dionne Warwick is a 5-time Grammy Award winning legend. She is an American singer, actress, and television show host, who became a United Na...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:25
Full Moon Hacksaw #1725 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02-20-20120
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Swing is the thing, hear Johnathan Ng play that fiddle and you’ll feel it, for vintage jazz radio hear DJ Symphony Sid’s theme played by Dizzy Gill...

Bought by KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KJZX-Austin, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw #1718 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01-02-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Ultra mellow we start with a tribute to Nica with an underlying Thelonious Monk theme. We start the new decade by reviewing the better releases of ...

Bought by WYAP, KHNS, WEJP-LP 107.1, KRZA, WMOT and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Back at it: Alexander Coleman Kime podcast beats for forgettable tunes
From: Alexander Coleman Kime
Series: Alex Coleman Kime
Caption: kime, alexander coleman, Credit: alexander coleman kime
One day we'll probably all laugh at this lofi hip hop the same way we do smooth jazz, but ya know for the time being I think it makes pretty OK bac...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 01:31
Sleeping Beauty
From: dan dewes
Series: By Kids For Kids Story Time
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An entire kingdom lies asleep for a hundred years, surrounded by a wall of deadly thorns. The evil fairy placed a terrible curse on Sleeping Beauty...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2018
  • Length: 10:57
PYP Concerto Competition Winner Natalie Tan 17-05
From: All Classical Public Media
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Fifteen-year-old pianist Natalie Tan plays Chopin's 2nd Concerto

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KWAX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Divine Feminine and Jesus's Secret Revelations to His Brother
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: (clockwise) Jann Aldredge-Clanton, Brent Landau, Geoffrey Smith
Rev. Jann Aldredge-Clanton discusses her hymns to the divine feminine and Dr. Brent Landau shares his new apocryphal discovery.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Snap 808: Boxed In, 4/6/2017
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next all-NEW Snap..."Boxed In." When you feel the walls coming closer and closer, where do you go? Where do you hide?

  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1567 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/09/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We have three tributes and a sub-theme of gypsy jazz this radio episode. First, jazz photographer Chuck Stewart, who just left us, was one of the f...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1565 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/26/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Do we have what it takes? Kevin Mahogany sings that answer, a couple tracks from European Rhythm Bomb records Rhythm Riot fest, groups assembled in...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "What The Heart Cannot Forget"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat".

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:50
Sports are for Everyone with Hi-5 Sports
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism - 2
Caption: Nick Temperine, a kid in Hi-5 Sports, loves to come and play basketball with his friends. , Credit: (c) 2015 Hi-5 Sports
Hi-5 Sports was founded in Clifton Park, N.Y. by Jim Fitzgerald to give children with physical and developmental disabilities the chance to play si...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
Rock Star Funeral Music
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It's an hour of music played at the funerals of rock stars. Yeah, it's kind of macabre, but it's worth a listen!

Bought by KZYX, KSKQ, WOUB, KPVL, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Legend of the Lady Slipper
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Dibaajiimowin
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By Margi Preuss and Lise Lunge-Larsen and retold by Carlee Kuhn...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
Conversations 109: Paul Carter
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Paul Carter
A conversation with author Paul Carter, who tells stories about his years as an oil rig worker in some of the world's most insane places.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:20