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Mittens in Moonlight (#1586)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word....

Bought by KUAT, KREV-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, RADIOLEX, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
AG 22-46: A Jazz Date With Chris Connor, 11/7/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Diamond Dust (#1585)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSLR and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Sleepy Winks (#1584)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton's best-known novel. Today the annual ...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSLR and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
AG 22-44: The Great American Songbook’s One-Hit Wonders, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Ann Ronnel, composer of "Willow Weep For Me", Credit: Public Domain
Not every composer had the extensive catalog of George Gershwin or Irving Berlin. This week, we’ll explore songwriters like Ann Ronnel, Brooks Bowm...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Touch Grass (#1602)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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High school students in Alabama share some favorite slang terms. If someone tells you to touch grass, they're telling you to get a reality check --...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Made from Scratch (#1583)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Salad Days (#1582)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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A documentary film called My Beautiful Stutter" follows youngsters at a summer camp specifically for stutterers. It's a place for finding acceptanc...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
AG 22-42: Creed Taylor And The Singers, 10/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Creed Taylor, who passed away earlier this year at age 93, was one of the most influential jazz record producers of the 20th century. This week, we...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Funny Papers (#1601)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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There are word nerds, and then there's the woman who set up a folding chair on sidewalks throughout the country, cheerfully dispensing tips about g...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KTSW 89.9, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Off with Her Head
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Your Imaginary Boyfriend (#1581)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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We use the term Milky Way for that glowing arc across the sky. But how people picture it varies from culture to culture. In Sweden, that starry ban...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WSLR, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
AG 22-41: The Name Game, 10/3/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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On this episode, it’s a roll call of first names in the Great American Songbook, including “Nancy With The Laughing Face,” “Happiness Is A Thing Ca...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Go Bananas (#1600)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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A caller wonders if she's being hypersensitive about the way her boss addresses her in emails. Can the use of an employee's first name ever reflect...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, WYAP, WSLR, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
StoryCorps: Molly Barr and Nevada Barr
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Molly and Nevada Barr remember their mother Mary Barr, a firefighting aviator who was the first woman to fly for the U.S. Forest Service.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 2
Beefed It (#1580)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don't they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaini...

Bought by KUAT, WSLR, RADIOLEX, WNIN, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
AG 22-39: The King Cole Trio Starts To Swing, 9/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Album cover for the new Resonance Records box set "Hittin' The Ramp"
This week, Mark Chilla talks with jazz historian Will Friedwald about the early years of Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, as they explore some...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
AG 22-38: Live Ella!, 9/12/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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From the 1950s on, Ella Fitzgerald became known around the world as one of the most renowned live performers in jazz. This week, we’ll sample from ...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
What in Tarnation (#1599)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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This week on A Way with Words: Language is always evolving, and that's also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for "telephone...

Bought by KUAT, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Forty-Eleven Zillion (#1579)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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This week on "A Way with Words": When there's no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? S...

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, RADIOLEX, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Class of 1968 - Top 30 Pop Records
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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Top 30 Pop records from 1968

  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:54:47
Flashback to Provincetown, 2013 - 'gayer than San Francisco'
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Sunset over Provincetown Harbor, Credit: Provincetown Tourism Office
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Streak (#1598)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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How long can a newly married woman be called a bride? Does bride apply only as long as her wedding day, or does it extend right on through the coup...

Bought by KUAT, KVSC, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Ebony Classics - Welcoming Spring
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
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"Welcoming Spring" is a classical music program featuring vocal classical music, piano classical music, and symphony orchestra music by musicians, ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Date (#1577)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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A librarian opens a book and finds a mysterious invitation scribbled on the back of a business card. Another discovers a child's letter to the Toot...

Bought by KUAT, KTXK, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17

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