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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Your DJs Scott Aycock and Richard Higgs tastes have expanded over the years, but lately we have been reminiscing about the early days of Folk Salad...
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 58:58
How can a profession in the building trades lend itself to the craft of writing? And what does building a house have to do with social justice orga...
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 05:53
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
In this piece we hear people from Mexico, Jamaica, Indonesia, and Nigeria talk about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers.
Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 06, 2022
- Length: 29:09
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Jazz Migrations" - Jazz wasn't just born in America. There's an alternative history — a story of colonial empires, grassroots revolution...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Kenne Thomas is from Chicago, has lived and played jazz in Japan and then took up residence in the Twin Cities. Kenne’s group, knits together many ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 08:00
Kenne Thomas leads his band into Jazz Central in Minneapolis Saturday evening August 28 from 8 till 10 PM. Kenne is from Chicago, lived and played ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 08:00
On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 45:28
Regardless of race, gender, or political affiliation, Americans in 2020 bought guns; many, for the first time. In this show, we hear from gun and m...
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this piece we hear from 6 people across the globe talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother who never...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jul 10, 2021
- Length: 28:36
- Purchases: 3
A new documentary explores Allen Ginsberg’s time in India.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with Michelle Zauner, writer and indie rock star known as Japanese Breakfast...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 14:25
In celebration of National Poetry month we talk with black American poet and artist Jasmine Mans. Jasmine is from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 11:49
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an artist profile and interview of Danish guitarist/composer/painter Kaare Norge, with musi...
Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, WOSU, Yellowstone Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 62
In the 1970's a group of Quaker friends banded together to buy an 840 acre property and create a community of of people dedicated to preserving and...
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 05:08
One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door do...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 27:33
- Purchases: 1
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 1
Two Minnesota musicians, Amanda Weber and Natalie Pollard, are starting what is thought to be the first re-entry choir in the U.S. Pollard shares t...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 2
2021 marks the 9th year of High 48s bluegrass brunches. It’s virtual, from 11 till noon every Saturday in January and February. The shows feature ...
- Added: Jan 01, 2021
- Length: 08:00
The sixth installment of the end-all, be-all, start-all-over-again edition of WWJG, exploring bluegrass, jazz and that shapeshifting sonic continuu...
- Added: Dec 26, 2020
- Length: 01:57:40
The latest in a series of Christmas shows spanning six years with nary a repeated song to be heard, featuring the finest bluegrass, jazz and sonica...
Bought by WVRU
- Added: Dec 03, 2020
- Length: 01:57:40
- Purchases: 1
Tonight on The Sound we check out the latest release from Sister Species called Light Exchanges. Sister Species is a Minneapolis band that mixes tr...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 45:41
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Richard revels in living in Philadelphia - the historical heart of U.S. democracy and home of his son Scott - while waiting anxiously for the votes...
- Added: Nov 14, 2020
- Length: 10:01
