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Forgiveness: How we define it and how it defines us
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, we rebroadcast an episode featuring conversations about forgiveness. Hear reflections from Chion two years since its ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
An Ancient Inuit Legend, How the Fog Came
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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This is an AI generated reading of a legend collected by Knud Rassmussen (1879-1933). I added Mongolian throat singers at the beginning and the end...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:12
Spectrosexuality: When a spirit is your spouse
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, you’ll meet four people who are married to spirits, ancestors, or gods, also known as Spectrosexuals.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
19th Amendment: Part 1
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the myths and unveil the realities of the story of the Nineteenth Amendment in part one of two episodes.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:22
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Caption: Homemade masks made by the Auntie Sewing Squad Alt-text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat , Credit: Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
On today's show, we'll revisit the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by looking at two alternative supply chains for masks during the fallout fro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
230426 This Week We Almost Found the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Turbans
The joy of music isn't finding the first, It's the search through all the "possibly the firsts." Who could have even imagined there are so many co...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
World Bridges - 23 - 70 Host: Tom Berich
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: World Bridges
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Join host Tom Berich on a musical journey around the world!

Bought by KAMU and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:20
  • Purchases: 2
DWFC 2202-13: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and more with the Aurora Orchestra: Beethoven Festival, 12/26/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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When it comes to creative and impressive performances, the London-based Aurora Orchestra really stands out. In this concert from the 2022 Beethoven...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
221217 Songs About Oil and New Orleans Music
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's focus is on New Orleans music and songs about oil as our search for the first rock and roll record looks into themes that match our weekl...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 6
220813 The First Rock Songs Were Mambos
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Prophets
Starting with rock songs that were placed atop a mambo progression because rock has always been an undefined category of music.

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
220416 This Music, The Heart of Radio.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Roddy Jackson Then
Defining the first rock and roll song has been passionately argued because to find "the first rock and roll song" requires ignoring tons of music t...

Bought by KPRG, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:28
  • Purchases: 8
220402 Pre-Ska Jamaican Music is The Mash Potato Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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85 songs you've never heard but could have been titled, "the first rock and roll song" featuring musicians you've never heard of. This show ignore...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, WQCS, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
220316 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
There's a half dozen popular myths defining the first rock and roll record but every week we feature 85 songs you've never heard any and all of the...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 7
210808 The Audio Similarities Between Ska and The First Rock and Roll Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Count Ossie
Tonight's show focuses on the similar sounds of early ska and rock and roll. Not a technical presentation, your ears will hear it and your soul wi...

Bought by KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
DWF 20-23: Schwetzingen Festival: Beethoven in Mysterious Company, 3/8/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Statue at the house in Bonn where Ludwig van Beethoven was born
"In Mysterious Company" is the name of a concert by the Belcea Quartet from England. At the Schwetzingen Festival, they played two of Beethoven's l...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:58
DWF 20-22: Schwetzingen Festival: Beethoven and his role models , 3/1/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Academy of Early Music Berlin
Méhul, Holzbauer, Cherubini and Knecht were among the composers whom Ludwig van Beethoven esteemed – and emulated. The parallels between their wor...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:58
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ode to the Old Gods
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Notes from the Jazz Underground #68
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week...we've got Jazz...with a twang! Jazz renditions of Country and Folk tunes by John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Bryan and the Haggards, Sara G...

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
200328 Best Of My Music For The Worst Of Times.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Broadcasting as an underground liar from my underground lair some of the best of my musical library. A voice for the isolation.

Bought by Prairie Public, WSLR, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:51:44
  • Purchases: 3
Politics of Thrones
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones., Credit: Eric Molinsky
There are a surprising number of foreign policy experts who are obsessed with Game of Thrones, which they say is more real than Scandal or House of...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 1
Lives in Music: The Men who Make Mellotrons
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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The legendary Mellotron story from the team who carry on the work that started in the 60s with Streetly Electronics in the UK.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 34:17
Nobody Swung Harder: The Jazz Violin of Stuff Smith
From: David Schulman
Caption: Stuff Smith and friends, Credit: family photo
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the most important American jazz violinist of the 20th Century. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald. Oscar Pet...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
53: Barbed Wire Phones
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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One more example of how farmers MacGyver everything. No phone lines? Use the fence.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Benjy Section 10
From: Ken Cormier
Series: The Benjy Section
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“My Mind,” a song by John P. Burke, “We Are Not Responsible,” a poem by Harryette Mullen (recorded at Soul Mountain, East Haddam, CT, July 2007), “...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 09:27