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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
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In the season premiere of our 11th time around the fiscal year of the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, the Granite City Radio Theater broug...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:02:26
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
Caption: Cinderblock Bookshelves show art, Credit: Kayleigh Morrison
“Inverness in the Seventies was the kind of place where a tenuous duo like my dad and me could not only survive, but feel right at home.” Rain tel...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
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“P.S. to Johnny: I am happy about the baby except the name. Couldn’t we find something a little less far out?” Rain’s mother dies young, and in a ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
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From the eerie darkness of the Pioneer Place on 5th Theater in a still mostly closed up downtown St. Cloud, it’s Season 9 of the Granite City Radio...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:54:57
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In this edition of Lives in Music, Robin Valk talks with John Mostyn, who has been, if anything, more involved with more music that almost anyone i...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 44:20
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This is a Christmas special like none other. Holiday music collector and expert Andy Cirzan scours record stores, dustbins, and basements to find t...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KLCC, Prairie Public, KDUR, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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This is a Christmas special like none other. Holiday music collector and expert Andy Cirzan scours record stores, dustbins, and basements to find t...

Bought by KHNS, KUPR low power FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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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
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He's running for El Dorado County Supervisor, District 4 (so say goodbye to the incumbent while you can)...

  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:50:30
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
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For those of a certain age, the start of summer isn't about going to the beach because a life's worth of hamburgers means never again wearing a bat...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 28:15