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Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
Rachel Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin’s little sister, isn’t so little anymore. Rachel, 91, reminisces about her childhood with her older brother who she rem...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 05:16
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
Goes2Eleven starts its run with a tribute to the jazz giant Joe Pass (1929-1994). We take a look at the guitarist’s early years in Johnstown, PA, h...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 54:06
The Great American Songbook was largely derived from Broadway Shows produced at the turn of the Century. However, as the Great Depression began in ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00:12
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...
Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 5
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
"Across the board & from the ground up." A couple extended outings thru saxophone harmony and guitar swing, Afro-Cuban jazz and the singers gettin...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 4
Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...
Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 49:32
- Purchases: 4
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 30:49
- Purchases: 2
This hour features four Vermont soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The program weaves together their stories of capture,...
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 56:00
- Purchases: 2
Destination DIY producers spoke to senior citizens about self-sufficiency and "making do" in tough times. These folks had lots of wisdom to share o...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 2
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUPR low power FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 4
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 01:54:13
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Princeton economist Henry Farber and Laphonza Butler, the president of the SEIU's United Long Term Care Workers' Union.
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:57:35
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 01:52:56
Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 11
UB40 went on to become one of the world's biggest reggae acts - but their debut album "Signing Off" still stands as one of their most influential r...
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 49:05
Heidi Holtan talks with Kao Kalia Yang about her memoir that is not just a self examination. She examines the history of the Hmong people both in ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 15:35
- Purchases: 1
