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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
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
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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A famous Russian comedy duo at their last performance, featuring their famous on-stage shenanigans in front of an amused audience.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:24
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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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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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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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Santa Claus goes bankrupt and must face angry elves, a government bailout, and a surprising challenger in an emergency election for leadership of t...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 1
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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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This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:21
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I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
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It started out as a biscuits and gravy kind of a morning down at Elmer's Cafe ...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 06:38
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This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:25
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My friend Jimy Fingerbutton once invented a new kind of dishwarsher. At least, I thought it was a dishwarsher. It looked just like an old-fashone...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 05:12
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Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:31
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You know the seasons are turning when you wake up with frost in your beard ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
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Every day I find something new out here on Wild Side. Something I've never seen before. Something that makes me say to myself, “slow down! Stop ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 04:33
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I was poking around out on Wild Side the other day, keeping an eye out for blue shade trees ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:51
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I once met an old-timer who lives out beyond the Wandering Hills, out there in the shadow of Gusty Ridge. The old-timer's name is Dale Hill. Dale...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:48
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Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:30