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For the fourth week of November (11/22): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who grew from Hispanic, Anglo and A...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of November (11/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an eclectic Texas musician who continues to defy...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of December (12/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the pioneers of chicano blues.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the first week of January (1/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a music teacher who helped establish the oldest co...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of July (7/26): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the Lone Star State’s very first female reco...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of August (8/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child star who took control of her own musical ca...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of November (11/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who built cars and painted houses wh...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of April (4/18): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped inspire the creation of one of the...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of March (3/6): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a performance that signaled certain death to its aud...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of June (6/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a wandering performer who left a lasting mark on Te...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of March (3/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing schoolteacher whose hit song landed him in...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of October (10/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an accomplished songwriter who is probably best...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
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For the third week of September (9/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a traveling folklorist who encountered everyone...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of August (8/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the original “Mr. T.”

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of July (7/29): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a classically-trained musician who was best known for...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of April (4/11): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a venue that brought world-class entertainment to ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of August (8/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a country singer who found his fortune at the bre...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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A look at changes in art policy during the Kennedy Administration, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, WABE, Delmarva Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 11
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Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Father Damien, Credit: www.fatherdamien.com
The Belgian priest, known as Father Damien, was recently declared a saint for his extraordinary service in caring for patients with Hansen's diseas...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Sound-rich documentary about Hmong-Americans living in the U.S.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WESM 91.3 FM, KWIT, KHEN-LP, KUNM and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Intriguing story of an India-American woman spy from World War-II

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2008
  • Length: 18:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Jazz was born in Kansas City during the prohibition, but what happens when 1920s-era hangout stops serving liquor?

  • Added: May 02, 2007
  • Length: 06:46
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One-hour music intensive documentary presents rock music legend, Roy Orbison, through his own words and music, and comments by artists inspired by ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KPIK-LP, KPIP-LP, KPVL, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 18
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New museum underway in Pueblo

  • Added: Jan 20, 2006
  • Length: 07:33