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Folktale of Generosity
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Generosity, Credit: Julia Meek
"A thing is bigger for being shared." (Gaelic proverb) Musical proof's being shared this week, on WBOI's Folktale of Generosity

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


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • 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
Folktale of Misfortune
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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It's setbacks, hard knocks and obstacles of every sort we deal w/ on this Folktale of Misfortune--in the finest of musical perspectives. Ready for ...

Bought by WFIU, WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Community Support
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Community Support, Credit: Julia Meek
It's fund raising time in our folkworld, and we're saying hats off to YOU, our public radio family, with this special Folktale of Community Support!

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


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:18:19
  • Purchases: 7
Folktale of Summertime
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Summertime, Credit: Julia Meek
It's beach blanket bingo and a world of seasonally significant music we're playing this week on the Folktale of Summertime!

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Stephen Most -- Documentary Filmmaker: Stories Make the World Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Stephen Most, author, playwright, and documentary film maker, who shares his life's experiences and stories in the new bo...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Balance
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Balance, Credit: Julia Meek
Here's hoping you'll spend an hour with us this week on Folktales for a musical listen to just what hangs in the balance!

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
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
Folktale of Liberty
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Liberty, Credit: Julia Meek
It's independence this Folktale salutes, with a look at freedom, and its pursuit, around the musical globe. A powerful tour de force? Hear for your...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WFIU, WCPN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 12
Strings N Things
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Cellist Matt Haimovitz, Credit: Stephanie Mackinnon
Catch a group of great string releases: Overtures to Bach by Matt Haimovitz; Ginastera 100 with Yolanda Kondonassis; Words Fail by Yevgeny Kutik; I...

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Folktale of Matrimony
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Matrimony, Credit: Julia Meek
This month, those wedding bells are ringing, world round, and don't look now, but on this week's matrimonial edition of Folktales, here comes the b...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 7
Folktale of Weddings
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Weddings, Credit: Julia Meek
'Tis the season-- we have many musical knots to tie around that matrimonial hitching post on the Folktale of Weddings, and you are SO invited to at...

Bought by WFIU, WLPR , WFIU, WFIU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
English Vinglish
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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There’s good, English, bad English and in a case by itself judicial English - perfect for pontification.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Folktale of Tomorrows
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Tomorrows, Credit: Julia Meek
Some say that your present thoughts are sharing your future experiences--How & why? Where & when? Look to the horizon, and join us for the Folktale...

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1557 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/01/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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In our continuing tribute to the mighty Mose, an anatomical description definitely causes us to reflect a la Monk mood, Coltrane’s tenor giving tha...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
Folktale of Roots Revival
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Roots Revival, Credit: Julia Meek
As author, Eric Olson noted: "Music is what life sounds like"...and it's the roots of that very soundscape we're exploring this week, on the Folkta...

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Folktale of Workloads
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Workloads, Credit: Julia Meek
Grab the elbow grease and clock in--this week's Folktale is riding the wheels of production around the globe!

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


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 12
Folktale of the 4 Elements
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of The 4 Elements, Credit: Julia Meek
Earth, water, fire & air--these are the "spiritual essences" this week's Folktale tracks, in the finest of musical tradition!

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 8
Folktale of Superlatives
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Superlatives, Credit: Julia Meek
We all want the "bests' in life, and this week's Folktale is heading for the musical summit--we challenge you can step up to the plate with this "S...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 7
Folktale of Financial Affairs
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Financial Affairs, Credit: Julia Meek
This week on Folktales, it's a world of finance we're investing in, through a most musical rate of exchange--you can bank on it!

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


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 4
Folktale of Revenge
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Revenge, Credit: Julia Meek
Whether you believe in 'an eye for an eye', or 'turning the other cheek' there's musical recourse just for you--so don't get mad--get even--and be ...

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 9
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
Folktale of Grace
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Grace, Credit: Julia Meek
Ah, grace...it's a state we'd all like to be in, and a trait we can't ever get enough of--this week on Folktales, we're translating that sentiment ...

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


  • Added: Mar 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Folktale of Disagreement
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Disagreement, Credit: Julia Meek
If you think life is one big happy ball of consensus, on this week's Folktale of Disagreement, we choose to differ!

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Folktale of Shadows
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Shadows, Credit: Julia Meek
“There are moments when we all step away from the light," says author Gume Laurel III, and this week's Folktale of Shadows will show you what that ...

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 8