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Music Archive Showcase #166 - Celebrating the Late Paul Buckmaster
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Paul Buckmaster
Paul Ingles hosts a music mix special that elevates some of the finest examples or orchestrator and conductor Paul Buckmaster's contributions to so...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
THE 2023 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Part 2 of music special producer Paul Ingles' thoughtful, heart-felt, year-end music mix program that allows us all to honor many of the music grea...

Bought by WORT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSJE, KFSK, KRVS and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
2023-10-13 Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
231013: Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo, 10/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - (OPTIONAL) HOUR 2
From: Paul Ingles
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More names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this optional second hour long special hosted by music historian and docume...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Musicians' Memorial 2020 - Jazz/R&B/Soul Edition
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: McCoy Tyner / Bonnie Pointer / Wallace Roney
Music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts 1 of 4 hours remembering musicians who passed away in 2020. This edition spotlights jazz/R&B/soul artists lo...

Bought by KSJE, Prairie Public, Troy Public Radio, KMSU, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
In Memoriam 2019
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look at the musicians we lost in 2019.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:44
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #42
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.

Bought by KFSK, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Sign
From: Greg Barron
Caption: In one word, its message spoke of a thousand stories, stories of sadness and joy. Short stories and epic tomes.
A personal, acoustic account of discovery...discovery of something close but unseen for many years. It is a metaphorical story about Hope..hope los...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 19:55
SON OF SAUL -- Géza Röhrig and László Nemes Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: László Nemes & Géza Röhrig, San Francisco, CA 12/12/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Géza Röhrig László Nemes talk psychic reality, earning our lives, and narrowing the field of vision.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 12:54
Putting an earring in my ear: the centennial of the Armenian Genocide
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A lone sailboat flying the Armenian flag to commemorate the centennial as marchers cross Golden Gate Bridge above
On top of the highest hill in San Francisco is the Mount Davidson Cross -- a monument to the Armenian Genocide. Friday, April 24th marks 100 years ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Poet John Ciardi
From: New Letters on the Air
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This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...

Bought by KMUN and WJCU


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Carol Ann Russell- "Poets of the Non-Catholic Cemetary"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
First World War Poetry - Zigurds Kronbergs reads 'Disabled', by Wilfred Owen
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
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As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
The Internet in Sepia
From: Helena de Groot
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The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past... Music by my friend pq (You'll never Find us Here) and Sol Rezza on freemusicarchive.org

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Fountain City
From: Caleb Pringle
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
Dead and Gone
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
Caption: Dead and Gone, 2009 - Ink on paper, Credit: Samantha Sherry
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:03:20
What We Talk About When We Talk About Little Italy
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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An oral history of Portland, Maine's long-lost Little Italy.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:08
James Carroll Booker the Third: The Life, Music, and Mystique of the Bayou Maharajah Part 2.
From: David Kunian
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Part 2 of 2 part radio documentary about the legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker

Bought by Prairie Public, NPR Illinois, and WNCU


  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 3