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Folktale of Safety
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Safety, Credit: Julia Meek
Relax! This Folktale comes with a safety harness!

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


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Trees
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Trees, Credit: Julia Meek
What did one tree say to the other? "Leaf me be, I'm listening to Folktales!"

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
AG 22-03: Charlie Parker With Voices, 1/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week on Afterglow, we pay tribute to bebop legend Charlie Parker. I’ll feature his recordings with vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, as well as vo...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1816 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11-18-2021
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Always with it, on our way to tune in the radio or log on to FullMoonHacksaw.com. This is a piano-heavy show with many recent releases, for example...

Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
Acoustic Concussion Highlights Work of Select jazz Masters Streaming from Jazz Central Studios Feb 6
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Brad Holden, Credit: Andrea Canter
The five members Acoustic Concussion, JT and Chris Bates, Brad Holden, Joe Mayo and Brian do a lot of things in jazz. But when they gather to perfo...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Ty Yule Remembers Pi: “The Dyke Bar of Our Dreams”
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Pi Bar proprietor Ty Yule and business partner Benny. , Credit: Kim Thompson
Pi Bar infused the Twin Cities with an ecstatic, high energy jolt of queerness for the year and a half it was open. The bar was dreamed up in 2006 ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1746 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07-16-2020
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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East meets west indeed to start our broadcast of 85 % new releases: San Francisco pianist Adam Shulman and John Fedchock in New York employ plenty ...

Bought by KHNS, WYAP, WOUB, KRZA, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Folktale of Challenge
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Challenge, Credit: Julia Meek
No one ever said it would be easy. We challenge you to see if this week's Folktale lives up to that fact'

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


  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Hula Peppers’ Zany Blend of Old Music Styles Comes to the Schooner in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Hula Peppers, Credit: Elizabeth Rowan
The Hula Peppers plays music from a mix of traditions, and all of it predates 1939. Catch the group at the Schooner Tavern in south Minneapolis, We...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 07:59
Full Moon Hacksaw #1673 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02-21-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Starting on the edge is bassist Buster Williams as leader with Donald Harrison and Lenny White BTW. Then we hear acoustic tandem guitars, Strunz an...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw #1668 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01-17-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Syndicated jazz radio from the desert southwest, beaming out now to 24 stations, and of course we name them all on the air. Master Oscar Peterson i...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WOUB, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
142: I'm No Princess
From: The Mortified Podcast
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The pitfalls of teenagers and tiaras.  This week, Mortified explores the obsession kids have with becoming a princess. The Mortified Podcast is a p...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2018
  • Length: 27:45
An Interview with Parquet Courts
From: Alex Kime
Series: Alex Kime
Caption: Alex Kime
Following their sold-out show in Chicago, Parquet Courts sat down to discuss life on the road and their writing process. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 18:30
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1622 (Hour 1 & 2) 03/01/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A good mixture of our usual salsa/blues/bop in retrogressive groove, the late Michael Burks shuffling at start. Afro-Cuban sounds from master Mach...

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1619 (Hour 1 & 2) 02/08/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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One hundred miles an hour comes trumpeter Terrell Stafford, Dexter Gordon tempers considerably. We get on an Antonio Carlos Jobim kick, alternating...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, KCMJ Community Radio, WJSU, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
I Don't Know by James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jay O. Sanders
In James McLindon’s I Don’t Know, an old school drill sergeant is faulted by his new recruits and desperately, hysterically longs for the time when...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
Folktale of Hope
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Hope, Credit: Julia Meek
This week's edition of Folktales is dedicated to music from around the globe, all of a hope-building nature. Need some? Gotta have it! Here's hopin...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WFIU, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
radio UNLEASHED #1459 - 4th of July Freedom Show
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by WSGE and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 2
radio UNLEASHED #1434 - Best of 2016, Part 2
From: radio UNLEASHED with Dave Leonard
Series: radio UNLEASHED
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 55:18
  • Purchases: 1
Tasha Walks by Kim Merrill
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Marsha Mason
Starring Marsha Mason and Steven Boyer. In the short comedy, TASHA WALKS, a young man (Steven Boyer, Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD, NBC's "Trial & E...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 16:14
Folktale of Going Nowhere
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Going Nowhere, Credit: Julia Meek
A dead-end street is a good place to turn around--and that's the musical direction this week's edition of Folktales is headed--ready to follow along?

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


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 6
Teenagers: The Agony and the Ecstasy - Two short plays by Christopher Sullivan
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Lucy DeVito
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, WHRV, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
For the Love of the (Video) Game
From: Jack D'Isidoro
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An underground--literally--DIY video game tournament in New York City's Chinatown.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Small town movie theaters surviving in the digital age
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Natalie Baszile reads from Queen Sugar: A Novel (5/27)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our readings for May. A city gal inherits a sugar cane farm.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1