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Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of March (3/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a preacher’s son who helped launch a rock star’s c...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of December (12/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a self-proclaimed white trash musician who helpe...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of September (9/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who straddled both political and cul...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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For the fourth week of February (2/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing group that was founded in the 1800s b...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:33
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For the third week of January (1/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who played auto harp and sang folksongs b...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of November (11/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was born the son of a former slave...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of June (6/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the epicenter of Houston’s “Summer of Love.”

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at some musicians who really knew how to honk their horns.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of May (5/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the “other Carter Family” of American roots music.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of January (1/29): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a jazz musician who gained fame playing country mu...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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Electric Prunes and a dozen adds, Oh Well!

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Red Crayola, Credit: The Parable Of Arable Land
By request: The Red Crayola.

Bought by KWMR, KHNS, KKRN, KPVL, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:10
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Daws Butler's Halloween Happening, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of Yogi Bear, Daws Butler!

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 45:24
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Going deep again.

Bought by KEOS, KWMR, KPVL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Alan Lomax with unidentified man. [Library of Congress photo]
Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Union Square, Somerville MA, Credit: Christina Pazzanese For The Boston Globe
An edited analysis of nine indoor businesses in the heart of Union Square, Somerville, MA.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A collection of handpicked songs exploring the sounds of three prominent members of the mallet family of percussive instruments - Xylophones, Vibes...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 58:55
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David O. Selznik once ruled Hollywood with memorandum

Bought by PRX Remix and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Mar 07, 2008
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A collection of handpicked songs from a very wide range of musical styles that address the subject of rhythm as it pertains to music and dance.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2007
  • Length: 58:52
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A collection of handpicked songs from a very wide range of musical styles demonstrating the versatility of the harmonica.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
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A collection of some of the best songs ever written about Memphis, Tennessee's other music city.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:52
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Great songs about the jukebox from a wide variety of musical genres.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6