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Modern Jetset #183
From: Iris Berkeley
Series: Modern Jetset
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This week we've got new music from Future Islands, R.A.P. Ferreira, and Yin Yin, plus we connect the dots between psych-rock vintage and modern.

Bought by KRSC, KSUT, KVSC, KKRN, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
From: Tradeoffs
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
March On! 2
From: Wind & Rhythm
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we feature the kind of songs that would be great to play this month; marches! ;) We hear marches from John Willia...

Bought by KVNO, WUAL, Delmarva Public Media, KCCU Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 17
03042024: Mega Ran, 3/4/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Mega Ran is one of the most prolific hip hop artists you have heard, but likely have not heard of. His music is featured in hundreds of video games...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
‘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 ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
Modern Notebook for March 3 - 9, 2024 (Ep. 235)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Liliya Ugay is a composer who is also a mother, and she says that composer-mothers have been vastly u...

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


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Owls
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Who’s hooting? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn all about owls with Mrs. Charles second graders from Albuquerque’s Coronado Element...

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


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Spanish Hour 2409: Mexico‘s Choral Music Tradition
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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From 17th -century masters Juan García de Zéspedes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla to modern-day composers Guillermo Alvarez Navarro and Sergio Cárde...

Bought by KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, WCQS, KVNO and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 33
240302 Child Singers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sweet Katie Sweet was 3 years old when she recorded this
Long before the child singer Michael Jackson extended his childhood musical career past his voice change, there were countless little kids propped ...

Bought by KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Delmarva Public Media, KSLU and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Oddballs: All #1 Hits
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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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


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Modern Jetset #182
From: Iris Berkeley
Series: Modern Jetset
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This week we've got new music from Crumbsnatchers, Olof Dreijer, and Holy Hive, plus a few forgotten rock-n-roll favorites from around the world.

Bought by KRSC, KSUT, KMXT, KKRN, KVSC and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
022624: Owls, 2/26/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Who’s hooting? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn all about owls with Mrs. Charles second graders from Albuquerque’s Coronado Element...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
TSSAAPR240221 The Soul Show BHM Week 4 (evergreen): Honoring a Quiet Gem - Skip Scarborough
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Join host Mike Canton for a tribute to the quiet musical hero Skip Scarborough, who wrote numerous hits for Bill Withers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Patti...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw #1934 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/22/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Jazz is an excellent way to continue Black History Month. From our new releases comes bassist John Lang with another track from his “Earotica,” the...

Bought by Raven Radio, KJZX-Austin, KECG, KRZA, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
Negro Baseball Leagues
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Without This Brave Woman, We May Never Have Heard of MLK Jr.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host 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...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Concierto for Feb. 23-29, 2024
From: WDAV Classical Public Radio
Series: Concierto
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Concierto presents classical music in English and in Spanish. Classical favorites performed by Hispanic artists are alternated with music by Spanis...

Bought by WUFT, WPVM 103.7, KMUN, WFIU, WRTI and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 45
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Taking Us Higher (An Appreciation) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
An optional second hour with more of our celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from Sly and the Fam...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUHF, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
From: Tradeoffs
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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 1
Modern Notebook for February 25 - March 2, 2024 (Ep. 234)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Just a fraction of the music written by composer Julia Perry survives in a way that we’re able to ...

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


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 7
240225 Songs By and About Boxers and Musicians Named "Johnny"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Johnny Sardo When He Was With Randy and the Rainbows
Also song lyrics specifically about boxers and songs sung by boxers (and other athletes). And oh so many musicians named "Johnny." Oh yeah, songs...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, WMTNradio, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Spanish Hour 2408: Transcribed and Transformed
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Guitarist-composer Jorge Caballero
A program of well-known Spanish keyboard and orchestral treasures transcribed for guitar and heard anew.

Bought by KUER, KSJE, WRTI, KMUN, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
20240219: Negro Baseball Leagues, 2/19/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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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...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Black Roots on the Harlem Jukebox
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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The second half of the 20th century saw the beginning of the culmination of American Black Music styles explode into the mainstream. But the genesi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Modern Jetset #181
From: Iris Berkeley
Series: Modern Jetset
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This week we've got new releases from Khruangbin, Benny Sings, and Bobby Bazini, plus an offbeat dub rework and a detour through some classic ninet...

Bought by KRSC, KMXT, KKRN, KVSC, KSUT and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7

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