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220108 First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Rudy Ray Moore kneeling
These are songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of so this is a deep dig into the non-commercial arts instead of pop music as de...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 4
647: Whose Land Is It? / 648: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?, 12/18/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
PE 2141
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Another roller coaster ride

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KDUR, KSJD, KPRG and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Shortcuts Back To Work
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: The Worker
Labor Day extended special with history of worker's daily struggles mixed with cultural and musical references

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:07
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
589: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? / 590: Born, Again, 5/29/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Paranormal Cafe featuring Kat Sarro
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Philadelphia Haunts by Katharine Sarro, Credit: Schiffer
Kat Sarro visits The Paranormal Cafe to discuss her book, 'Philadelphia Haunts: Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, and other Ghostly Sites'....

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:01
575: Living With Loneliness / 576: Who's Watching Us?, 4/10/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
PE 2112
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Rebalancing Act

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KDUR, KRSC, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 15
EP168 Blues in the Mississippi Night by Alan Lomax
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:52:28
Episode 117: Spotlight - Murder Ballads
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
Caption: A country show like no other
In this episode of Dollar Country we go in depth into a handful of different murder ballads. Featuring music by Eddie Noack, Doc Watson, The Louvi...

Bought by KSTK and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ep 13 & 14: Gone With The Wind / Behind The Scenes Doc
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 13: Gone With The Wind It is three weeks since Ernie dropped Jerry off back at their home in Washington DC. Jerry has been in the care of...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 11 & 12: A Bed of Coals / The Simple Proposition
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 11: A Bed of Coals Ernie pays a visit to the home office for a meeting with his editor, Lee Miller. Miller, an old friend, knows about Je...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 9 & 10: A Desolate Corporation / The Zipper
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 9: A Desolate Corporation Ernie’s first writing job was as an aviation columnist in The Washington Daily News. Amelia Earhart once said, ...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 7 & 8: Not The Washington Post March / Have You Been Away?
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 7: Not The Washington Post March Finally back on the road, Ernie and Jerry stop into a favorite haunt for the night. However, it is in Oh...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 5 & 6: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father / Thirty Years Too Soon
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 5: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father Ernie discovers that his father drove his car through the front plate-glass window of the Dana dry-g...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 3 & 4: The Snake Story / My Mother
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 3: The Snake Story Ernie’s parents are enjoying Ernie and Jerry’s visit home, but his mother just can’t seem to accept what her son has b...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 1 & 2: The Bourgeois Standard / That Long Sad Wind
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 1: The Bourgeois Standard As pressure mounts from the home office, Ernie is forced to use a voice recorder for his work in interviewing t...

Bought by KAAD-LP and WCBE


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 115: Please Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Seventeen more tracks from the archives of Dollar Country

Bought by KSTK, KIYU-FM, KSTK, and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 4
PE 2040
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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An Electric Experience

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KDUR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KTNA and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 18
Mountain of the Stars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in the scorching hot radio studio with an all-new episode of the radio show that Palm Springs Life magazine named the "Best Freaky Radi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
When Doomsday Came Calling by Mistake
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Our producer Flawn Williams once got caught up in a sticky situation that triggered fears of a nuclear attack while working at a Chicago TV station...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Manure-Covered Farmers and Other Acts of Powerline Protest
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Protest sign opposing the construction of the CC Powerline across farmland.
On March 5, 1978 in subzero temperatures, about 10,000 farmers marched across Pope County, Minn. in a staged funeral procession to mourn the death ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #73 - Alice Coltrane
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a look at one of the most unique keyboardists and harpists in the last 50 plus years of Jazz history, Alice Coltrane. We'll h...

Bought by WJCT, KMUW, KRPS, KLCC, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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

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