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Down at the Old Schoolhouse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
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
42: International Ice Patrol
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Learn a bit about the women and men of the IIP who monitor icebergs in the northern reaches of our Atlantic ocean.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
DC 1849
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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War on a Bloody Sabbath

Bought by KRZA, KPRG, KRZA, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Write Question - Ben Montgomery - 395
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Journalist Ben Montgomery talks history and unconventional pedestrianism in his book, "The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search fo...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
DC 1821
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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The Lamia From Mariabronn

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


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Blues History #36 - December 2-8
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile street musician Bongo Joe, who recorded a cult favorite for Arhoolie Records, in 1968.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
Whistle
From: Doug Hillyard
Series: Doug the Jitterbug's Audio Collage
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Sometimes in life its best to not think of the worlds troubles. You just have to whistle. So tonight three hours of whistle songs. I hope the vari...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:57:53
Episode 77: The Escape
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1
DC 1748
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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A long list of (relatively) short songs.

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


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tou Gher Xiong: Teaching Culture Through Laughter
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we catch up with Hmong activist and educator Tou Gher Xiong. Tou teaches cultural awareness through a routine of...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 19:45
911 and more Lizzy
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:20:37
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
Sex: The Illustrated History
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: John R. Gregg
Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Sep 23, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Byzantines, Saracens and Saladin
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
Baptism of Solitude: Paul Bowles's Morocco Tapes
From: The Organist
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Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...

Bought by KMUN and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2
DC 1720
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Pure rock.

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Press Agent
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Eddie Jaffee, Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 3
170429 The South - New Orleans Removes It's Confederacy Statues
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:08:20
170429 Short Version Sound Alikes - Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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This is the short segment focusing only on Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf musics' similar sounds. Taken from the 170429 show.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:20:55
The Staten Island Ferry Disaster
From: Ryan Sweikert
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Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
DC 1712
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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King Crimson vinyl and other treats.

Bought by KSRQ, WOUB, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Art Underground
From: Daniel Richards
Caption: Image of Daniel Ricketson's 'Shanty', circa 1870, Credit: New Bedford Free Library
Brooklawn Park in New Bedford, MA has a soccer field, a playground, and asphalt paths winding around a small, grassy hill. It also contains the bur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Jose Serebrier
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Jose Serebrier and John Clare, Credit: Casey Houtz
Jose Serebrier is an internationally respected conductor and composer. We'll speak to him about his artistry and some new recordings.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8

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