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Episode #21 of this weekly music-based program delivering an inspired reinvention of how we inform ourselves about and experience the world we live...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Sounds Jewish, celebrates Mother's Day with maternal tunes and shtick from around the Jewish world -- and without guilt.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Sounds Jewish commemorates Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, with solemn music, poignant storytelling and a bit of sardonic comedy.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Halloween technically is not part of the Jewish calendar. But many People of the Book become People of the Costume on Oct. 31st. Plus -- Jewish fol...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
“Sounds Jewish” celebrates its 13th anniversary – can you say “bar mitzvah broadcast?” – with lively and humorous bar mitzvah tracks, and marks the...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
“Sounds Jewish” welcomes spring with a global Jewish playlist.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Urban Myer has been fired as the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach we discuss what let up to his firing and what's next for him. We also get into the...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:01:26
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Author Stephen Graham Jones talks about his new slasher-homage novel, "My Heart is a Chainsaw."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Celebrate Thanksgiving in The Funhouse with family and a holiday dinner on the homefront with lots of rock 'n' roll animal turkeys.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:30
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Born in Kansas in 1877, Maud grew up to be the first white female tattoo artist in the United States.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:29
Caption: The photos are mine. I doubt the snake enjoyed having its meal interrupted by a dude with a camera, but my goodness, isn’t it a beautiful snake? Even with its mouth full!
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus looks like a combinatio...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:31
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The rings of icy dust around Saturn are so much younger than the planet. Where did they come from and why are they going away?

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Sma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
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Dr. Gina Pazzaglia and Corey D. Taylor talk about the current epidemic of depression, their own experiences with it, and strategies that can help t...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 25:00
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The same old dreck with a radio musical thrown in for the single theater-minded listener out there.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 03:11:18
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This episode we spin loads of amazing music (all on vinyl of course) and we have a great couple chats with Larry Jaffee who is a writer, music revi...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:15
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The regular listeners to Saturday night radio meet at a New Orleans music club for the music, drinks, food and each other in this live broadcast.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:56:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Varmints, Credit: Julia Meek
"Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies." We don't know who said it, but find out why this week on the Folktale of Varmints.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Erin Schwab, Credit: Dan Brakke
Singer Erin Schwab has been singing to the accompaniments of pianist Jay Fuchs for a long time. Their performances are audience engaging with reque...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Erin Schwab, Credit: Dan Braake
Erin Schwab has been singing to the accompaniments of pianist Jay Fuchs for a long time. Their performances grab audiences through the combination ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
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Plenty of New Orleans music and songs about yo yos. Then I had "these urges" that turned into unrehearsed stunts.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:07:17
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Music that incorporates mechanical noises into the rhythm, gunslinger songs (including a psychological analysis of a gunslinger) and my Jerry Samue...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:24:40
Caption: Michelle Williams
Starring Michelle Williams, Rupert Friend, Caitlin FitzGerald, Timothee Chalamet; RENDEZ-VOUS WITH JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY delivers two thought provok...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3