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Radio 586 AZ Roots for 08-05 to 08-11-20 Show 363
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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From the letter B: Sheri Baker and Brea Burns, each of whom first appeared on this program in 2016. Two completely different women in Arizona music...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
NIST
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Is there a standard I may have missed? Time to consult the engineers at NIST. This is Episode 88 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2020
  • Length: 06:50
Full Moon Hacksaw #1741 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06-11-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Ray Barretto leads from his Charanga band days, Jay McShann simply never sounded bad. Another ivory master was Art Tatum, with Lionel Hampton and B...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KHNS, WEJP-LP 107.1, WOUB, WMOT and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 11
Full Moon Hacksaw #1739 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05-28-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A good mix of the old and new this week, first big band from Church on Monday and Billy Strayhorn. Brazilian sounds come from Miguel DeLeon and you...

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


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 10
In Defense of Captain Hook
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Erik Bergmann as Captain Hook, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Peter Pan is not supposed to grow up, but he has grown from a symbol of immaturity to an iconic inner-child. Either way Captain Hook got a raw deal...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 22:27
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw #1716 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/19/2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Among side the yuletide comes our favorite high-level players like Bobby Hutcherson, Tommy Flanagan, Miles, the Count, Goodman, Silver and Ellingto...

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


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 9
Christmas Stories Part 3 An Incident on Grace Street
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: C.F. Sauer sign,
A modern-day nativity story that takes place in a garage on Suitcase Alley in Richmond, Virginia's Fan District.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:24
Notes from the Jazz Underground #49
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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on this edition of Notes from the Jazz Underground, some great new music from Barrett Martin, Junius Paul, Jaimie Branch's Fly or Die, Adam Deitch,...

Bought by KRPS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #46 - The Curtis Mayfield Songbook
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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on this edition of Notes from the Jazz Underground, we take a listen to Jazz renditions of one of the masters of R&B, Curtis Mayfield, with Lou Don...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Poet Laura Kasischke
From: New Letters on the Air
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SHORT DESCRIPTION: National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Laura Kasischke explores topics from motherhood to beauty queens in her 2017 boo...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
YBYG46: You Bet Your Garden # 46 Is it too late for pepper plants?, 8/15/2019
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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On this episode of YBYG, our host Mike McGrath reveals why peppers are perhaps the only “plants of summer” that will accept such tender mercies thi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
Radio 586 AZ Roots 08-07 to 08-13-19 show 312
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Hacksaw Tom hosts. For the warm-up show to our monthly live concert, we listen to brand-new releases for the first time from jazz giant drummer Jim...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 57:59
68: Seasonal Depression
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Sending a little love to our listeners in the Southern Hemisphere. It might be summer here, but it's the middle of winter down south. Turn on some ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Radio 586 AZ Roots for 07-10 to 07-16-19 Show 308
From: KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
Series: Radio 586 AZ Roots
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Piano Pros: Pete Jolly, Nichole Pesche, Art Tatum, Armand Boatman. Hosted by Hacksaw Tom. Do we mean professionals or professors? Maybe Piano PROS...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
Fake by Eric Simonson
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A detective story about the infamous Piltdown Man hoax.

Bought by KKRN, WNJR, WCPN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 20
The Planets
From: Wind & Rhythm
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How will you be commemorating the Super Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse on January 20th? This week on Wind & Rhythm, we’re celebrating all things ce...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, and WUAL


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
Folktale of Ice Formations
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Ice Formations, Credit: Julia Meek
In our part of the folkworld, the ice formations have arrived. We're gathering music on this frigid topic, so bundle up and get ready to join our e...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
Two-Acre Nation: A Pilgrimage to Zaqistan
From: Benjamin Bombard
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In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 33:50
Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.
From: Ian Elsner
Caption: Buzludzha as it appears today.
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 09:59
180728 Before the "After the Flood"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A live broadcast from after the future floods and disasters of New Orleans. Yeah, I know a bit too cryptic but it works on radio.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:07
Telling Stories of the Syrian Civil War: Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our wars abroad and our wars at home. This week on the show, acclaimed graphic artist Molly Crabapple and Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham join Laur...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
negative testing
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Always think positive, unless you're doing negative testing. This is Episode 67 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fasci...

Bought by Enchantment Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching Science in Prison
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: The cover art for this episode alludes to the activity mentioned where a class of forms a scale model of the solar system with the sun as a basketball.
Science education occurs in juvenile detention centers, as part of the schooling available to young people there so that they can receive their hig...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 40:25
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1618 (Hour 1 & 2) 02/01/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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From bassist Paul Chambers’ first session, he had to have John Coltrane included. Straight to salsa with Mongo Santamaria of the ‘70s followed by c...

Bought by KMXT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 10
WYSIWYG
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Why Would Somebody Insist We Yank Goats? That's not what WYSIWYG stands for. This is Episode 53 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on...

Bought by WETD


  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1