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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
Caption: Camp Christopher is available for campers who have lost a loved one to suicide, Credit: Matthew Schneeman
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 07:54
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we remember those talented musicians and composers who passed away in 2022. We hear music of Ned Rorem, Pharoah Sa...

Bought by WUAL, RadioStPete Florida, Interlochen Public Radio, KWAX, KUCO and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 11
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Why is it that songs of sorrow & woe make for such good bluegrass & jazz music?

  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:55
Caption: Manuel Barrueco Plays Lennon/McCartney, Credit: EMI Records
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 500 years of popular music from Renaissance to present day, and interviews with Manuel Barr...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WUAL, WMRA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 56
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Ken Peplowski and Portland Chamber Orchestra play works by Copland and Stan Getz.

Bought by WNIJ, KPOV, WVTF, KMUW, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: The view from Robert Clark's studio in Brooklyn, Credit: Robert Clark
After 20 years in Afghanistan Sandip is left with the tragic ghosts of memory.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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If you listen to big band jazz, chances are good you’ve heard Sammy Nestico. On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we pay tribute to the memory of this...

Bought by WRTI, KWAX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA, WUAL and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 8
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
Caption: Entering Dreamland
Traveling down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams with sixty minutes of songs for sleepless nights (and days)

  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Duluth, Minn. delegation to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. gathers in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial to that city's 1920 lynching before boarding a bus for a 1,223-mile journey to Alabama in April., Credit: Julia Cheng
The fascinating journey of delegates from Duluth, Minn. - the scene of a horrific triple lynching in 1920 and the first city to erect a prominent m...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 47:57
  • Purchases: 1
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I smile, even when it hurts.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
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When Leonard Bernstein hosted the Young People’s Concerts in 1958, he started with the William Tell Overture and the black and white video captured...

Bought by 'The Sea', KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
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My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ashe Bhosle in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Bruce Davis, Zen Hospice resident, listens to guitar played by Thad Povey., Credit: JoAnn Mar
There's an increased use of live music at Bay Area’s major hospitals and hospices to bring healing and comfort to people who are near death.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 09:25
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
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Will Rogers remarks on the meeting of pilgrims and indians... Mark Twain's later years...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:16
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05
Caption: Large Hadron Collider Song
Outro Song suitable for Large Hadron Collider news story segment

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 03:02
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Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 11:51