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Who Invented Mother's Day? Not Hallmark or the Florist Society

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Most people think Mother's Day is just a day for mom to get gifts and thanks. But it has a far more serious and important origin and history.

Modern Notebook for April 28 - May 4, 2024 (Ep. 243)

From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: States of discord: like struggle, disagreement, dispute, and division - is the subject matter of Clar...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG, WDAV Classical Public Radio and more

A New Lifeline for Students in Debt -- Maybe

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

College is now ridiculously expensive and students are in hock up to their eyebrows. President Biden wants to help -- but the Supremes have stopped...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

Can China Erase History – and Democracy – in Hong Kong

From: Mateo Schimpf

Life is changing quickly for people in Hong Kong

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more

04152024: Protecting Earth , 4/15/2024

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

It's Earth Day on The Children's Hour, and we meet Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM) who explains how National Parks and National Wildernes...

Rain

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

Records from the 1950s and 1960s featuring rain in the title.

Climate Connections April 15 - May 10, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KWSO, WTJU, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, WNIN and more

Max Reger and Pals

From: Brent Johnson
Series: King of Instruments

We continue our month of exploring Romantic musical giants by going to Germany and the music of Max Reger and some of his contemporaries.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

The Beatles - April 4, 1964

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

An unprecedented week in pop music history.

4 in 1 Volume 1

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

Artists in the rock'n'roll era who scored 4 or more top ten hits in the span of 12 or fewer months

Modern Notebook for March 31 - April 6, 2024 (Ep. 239)

From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, tune in for a work by Kerry Politzer for solo piano titled “Microclimates,” and a buzzing work by ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG, WDAV Classical Public Radio and more

Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

From: Tradeoffs

A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

Damin Spritzer

From: Brent Johnson
Series: King of Instruments

This week we highlight the work of American organist and pedagogue Damin Spritzer. Spritzer has enthusiastically brought a new awareness to some co...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

String Is The Thing

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

Rock'n'roll era records featuring strings!

Women’s History Month: Let's Ditch This Bit of Unfair History

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...

Climate Connections March 18 - April 12, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections snowmobiles don’t have to be noisy and polluting, the plastics industry’s carbon footprint has doubled in the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNIJ, WTJU, KTSW 89.9 and more

1-4-1

From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®

In the pop music Baby Boomer Era, 1955-1985, there were 600 #1 hits. 210 of them were #1 for one week, 1-4-1. Several had significance for one reas...

Bought by KSRQ

Rematch: Will the Biggest Loser Win Again?

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Trump was President from 2016 To 2020, but he’s never won an election. He lost the nationwide popular vote in 2016, but still made it to the White ...

The Exciting Broadway Overture

From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound

In a bygone era, the overture at the start of a Broadway musical created excitement and anticipation, teasing us about what was to come. Listen to...

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family

A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

Oddballs: All #1 Hits

From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®

Why? How? America bought and brought all these oddball hits to #1. Many off-the-wall. Others weird premises. But they all had "cart topper" status.

Bought by KSRQ

Negro Baseball Leagues

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK and more

Without This Brave Woman, We May Never Have Heard of MLK Jr.

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks i...

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