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GN_3.34_One Simple Question
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Medicine Show
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, ...

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
The Paranormal Cafe with Dr. Bob Curran & The Green Man
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Walking with the Green Man, Credit: Career Press
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Paranormal Cafe with Brian Haughton
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Brian Haughton's 'Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places, Credit: mysteriouspeople.com
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places. When I contacted Bria...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 57:21
The Paranormal Cafe featuring Kat Sarro
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Philadelphia Haunts by Katharine Sarro, Credit: Schiffer
Kat Sarro visits The Paranormal Cafe to discuss her book, 'Philadelphia Haunts: Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, and other Ghostly Sites'....

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:01
147: Knitting Spies
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In WWI and WWII women were super sneaky and ingenious using their yarn and knitting needles to covertly transport coded messages. That's right, tod...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
137: Fred vs The Mississippi
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On July 6th, 1930 Fred Newton dipped a toe into the Mississippi river and explained to reporters that he planned to swim from Minneapolis to New Or...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 153: The Max Headroom Incident
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 23:35
135: Moon Junk
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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A word on sound quality: We're still recording remotely. Just pretend Amy is on the moon, reporting from her own personal spaceship. Besides the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
DC 2045
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Shorty Longshort

Bought by Raven Radio, KPRG, WOUB, KRZA, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
126: Marital Duels
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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During the 13th century, in the part of the world that would become Germany, husbands and wives could settle marital disagreements with an elaborat...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
120: Play Doh
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1930, the Kutol company came up with a putty to clean coal dust off of walls. Impending bankruptcy forced them to shift gears to find new ways o...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
DC 2026
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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The week of the round tuit

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPRG, Raven Radio, Southern Branch Bluegrass, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Notes from the Jazz Underground #73 - Alice Coltrane
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a look at one of the most unique keyboardists and harpists in the last 50 plus years of Jazz history, Alice Coltrane. We'll h...

Bought by WJCT, KMUW, KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
DC 2014
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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It's 4/20...for an entire month!

Bought by KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), WOUB, KKWE Niijii Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Other Room
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
101: Jimmy Legs
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The term Jimmy Legs describes both a syndrome and the restless leg bumping up and down that some of us do when nervous or full of energy. Let's fin...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Visit Meadowlands: Local History, the Dawn of a Birding Festival and a Shooting
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Let's Visit
Caption: Katie Carter & Helen Abramson
Helen Abramson grew up in the Meadowlands area. She has fond memories of celebrations at the Bohemian National Hall and is a treasure trove of loc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 14:32
DC 1951
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Rockin' the Holidays of Confusion

Bought by KPRG, Southern Branch Bluegrass, KSRQ, WOUB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
75: Worm Charming
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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This episode will have you outside with a sharpened stake, a hammer, a slab of metal and an empty coffee can. That's right, we're going to be talki...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:58
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
Fourth of July Sonic ID
From: Redmond Grybauskas
Caption: An 1887 Autophone Concert Roller barrel organ from a private collection on Nantucket., Credit: Isa Fritsch
On Nantucket, a grinder organ built in 1887 plays the Star-Spangled Banner.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2019
  • Length: :51
  • Purchases: 1
The Chasm Is Not Closed
From: Kamilah Kashanie
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Reporter Kamilah Kashanie looks into the controversy behind a statue in a historically Black neighborhood on Martha's Vineyard.

  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 10:40
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
47: Chlorine Trifluoride
From: Trace Kerr
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This chemical is no joke. Amy talks about how 1930's scientists discovered the explosive and insanely dangerous compound while trying to find a mor...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:25

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