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Four Pillars of Soul
From: Paul Ingles
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In the late 1960's and early 1970's, 4 African-American performers tossed records onto the American pop and R&B charts that would establish them as...

Bought by WJCT, KRVS, WXPR, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFSK and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
JEFF BECK: Essential Artist (optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Jeff Beck
This is an optional bonus hour of JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, wh...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
JEFF BECK: Essential Artist
From: Paul Ingles
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JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, who passed away January 10, 2023 at ...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Futurist Ari Wallach's
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymor...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:13
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Space Oddities: Episode 10-Odds 'n Ends
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
Space Oddities: Episode 6-The Sue Me, Sue You Blues (With Apologies to George Harrison)
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
81 years after it was founded, the USO is making changes to remain relevant to today's troops
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Army soldiers help themselves to free food in the USO lounge at Fort Bragg, N.C. The organization plans to close about 40 of its lesser-used lounges while opening 28 in places where it says troops are especially isolated or face high stress., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
The service organization is closing some of its centers, opening new ones, and expanding its online programs to respond to funding reductions and t...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 7
Space Oddities: Episode 3-The First Moon Flights Club
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: A sample of the Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership card., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Long before Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson began sending civilians into space, in the 1960s there was an American airline that had the same dream. ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
India's Land of the Lamas
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Gilded Buddha statue at Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India., Credit: Sandip Roy
While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Historian Candice Millard's RIVER OF THE GODS. Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched work, her newest book is an ad...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 10:08
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War
From: Current Affairs
Series: The Current Affairs Radio Hour
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A veteran of the war discusses how his opinions of the United States changed through exposure to the brutal realities of conflict abroad.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2022
  • Length: 54:14
Archives, artifacts, and 'a lot of rocks': The Army Corps of Engineers is training veterans for jobs
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Matthew Hanks labels a pottery shard in the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis office. Hanks is part of the Corps Veterans Curation Program, which employs veterans to help maintain artifacts unearthed in various Corps projects., Credit: Eric Schmid / American Homefront
An Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 6
Music for Her Majesty: Important Musical Moments in the Life of Queen Elizabeth II
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, 2022, at the age of 96. In memoriam, we take a look at the royal monarch's life through a musical le...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:23
  • Purchases: 12
Symbols of Freedom
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Enamelled Figures from British India, Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
11: Old World Influences of Southern Europe: Spotlight on Greek and Italian Immigrants in the Midwest, 07/21/2022
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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This episode of Eat Your Heartland Out is a special one for host Capri Cafaro. As an Italian-American from the Midwest, Capri shares her own person...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Chettiars
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A grand hall in Chettinad, Credit: Sandip Roy
The great mansions in the  villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Booktalk: Bill McKibben’s “The Flag, The Cross and the Station Wagon”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” Bill McKibben is an educator, en...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 09:53
The Oak Center General Store Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we bring you Part 2 of our series on a Minnesota music venue that is truly a hidden gem, The Oak Center General Store. The ...

  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
Similarities between Mr. Putin's War and the Confederacy? Roger Lowenstein, author of “WAYS & MEANS," explains.
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In WAYS & MEANS. Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, author Roger Lowenstein not only spells out how each side in very diff...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:26
Elise Hooper's ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC by Elise Hooper (her fourth novel) tells the powerful story of American Army and Navy nurses kept as prisoners for nearly thr...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
American Songcatcher Presents: Bascom Lamar Lunsford
From: Nicholas Williams
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The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 08:23
How Easy Is It to Commit Fraud in an Election?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #143 - GEORGE HARRISON: Best Year Ever - 1971 (HOUR 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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HOUR 2 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 197. In the first hour (alread...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sarah Vogel’s The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Can a lawyer in their first courtroom case win against the mighty power of the US federal government? Yes, she did. The Farmer’s Lawyer by North D...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 09:18

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