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An hour of Yiddish-fid tunes: meaning non Yiddish tunes translated into the mamaloshen or recasts into the klezmer style.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
“Sounds Jewish” celebrates Canadian Jewish Heritage Month -- May -- with Jewish tunes and shtick from across the dominion.
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We're deep into Passover, the holiday celebrating the Israelites liberation from slavery as told in the book of Exodus. We hope that all peoples fi...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 26, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
“Sounds Jewish” marks Leap Year – both on the Gregorian Calendar and the Hebrew Calendar -- with Jewish tunes about leaping and jumping, experienci...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jewish music has developed new melodies, harmonies and styles over many centuries. Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for some of the most creativel...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
"Sounds Jewish" celebrates Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, with a cheerfully curated hour of new and classic holiday tunes.
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The ‘Windsor Shower Companion’ ($11.49) was the first product sold on home shopping network QVC, which made its debut on 24th November, 1986, quick...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:30
With cutesy graphics and a female-focussed origin story, Tamagotchi was positioned as a ‘nurturing toy’ for Japanese girls when Bandai launched the...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 10:10
Pope Clement V ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar and seizure of their properties on 22nd November, 1307: a day that sealed the fate of the ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:11
I'm ok, you're ok, Public Radio is da bomb and we have a Folktale to prove it!!
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:14
In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:12
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 11:18
Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:11
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 11:18
The French government introduced a new State religion on 10th November, 1793: the ‘Cult of Reason’, which attempted to reflect the anti-clerical at...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 11:10
Presidential diplomacy now routinely involves hundreds of trips on Air Force One – but, until Theodore Roosevelt travelled to inspect the Panama Ca...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Bruce Miller appeared to be the victim of a violent robbery at his salvage yard when his body was discovered on 8th November, 1999 - but he had act...
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 10:51
In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unearth the origin...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:32
In a quirky blend of sports, public health, and self-promotion, boxing legend Muhammad Ali took on an unusual opponent at the Washington Monument o...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:16
Dropping bombs from planes was unheard of until 1st November 1911, when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti embarked on an aerial mission over Libya....
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 09:42
For this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for 🌴 CLUB RETROSPECTORS 🌴members, we explore the incredible history of the at-home pregnancy test, fir...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 10:18
Johnny Campbell, a medical student from the University Of Minnesota, spurred on his alma mater’s struggling football team by leading spectators in ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 09:52
Irish popstar Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance of Bob Marley’s ‘War’ on NBC’s TV show ‘Saturday Night Li...
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 10:13
The ‘Women’s March’ of 1789 began spontaneously, when a market trader banged a drum in a Parisian square on 5th October – launching a chain of even...
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 09:58