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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Happy Birthday World. Let's renew ourselves and Party Like It's 5784

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Listen to food related recordings from across the Jewish world while America celebrates national pickle month.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish marks Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day with Jewish renditions of patriotic songs plus tunes about North American Jewish life.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom is ready to greet customers with a joke and a smile at Tom's Popcorn Shop, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
There’s a little popcorn shop in the Nokomis neighborhood of south Minneapolis where you can get popcorn, banter, and half off double the normal pr...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 07:10
Caption: "Straight Pride", Credit: OutCasting Media
Addressing the aggrieved people who lament the lack of a "Straight Pride" celebration.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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“Your hands are clean now, and so are mine.” - Greg Barris

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
Caption: Sydia, Danny, and Maritza Bell with their dog (not Roxanna) in 2016
Danny Bell tells his daughter Sydia about trying to teach her mother to drive.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:06
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
“Sounds Jewish” celebrates #Jazzuary – yes, that’s a monthlong thing – with a down-home hour of Jewish jazz.

Bought by WVTF and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Persimmon Tree, Credit: Scott Wen
A 70 year old woman risks everything for a taste of late autumnal fruit.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Alan Ayckbourn’s 1988 play anticipates the popularity – and absurdity – of reality TV.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KALW and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 29
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Elvis was not always buried on the Graceland property. After an attempted grave robbing, he was moved there. In fact, many musicians' graves have...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This is an update of a piece originally posted in 2011.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:54
Caption: Brian Friedland makes a funny face while playing the piano.
An interview with Brian Friedland, a Boston composer who has a sense of humor.

  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:33
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #111

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:51
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Satire Rock City Radio Show #110

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:52
Caption: Curious squirrel, Central Park, New York, Credit: basair is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0
How many squirrels are there in Central Park? It’s not just a trivia question for a dinner party. The answer tells us a lot about the urban environ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Cover of book by Chris Patton
Nature's call leads to police calls and log entries.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Male staring at flowers
Hawkeye state residents living up to the IOWA acronym.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:48