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687.H: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/20/2024 7:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
687.D: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/20/2024 3:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including MOZART: IMPRESSARIO:Overture:, K 486. Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra/Mario Bernardi.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
683.B: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/14/2024 1:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including STILL: A Deserted Plantation; Mark Boozer, piano.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
681.N: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/10/2024 1:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including BARBER: Music for a Scene from Shelley, Op. 7. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Schenck.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 7
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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Two stories about local food.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 51:08
In Real Life
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A hilarious and harrowing account of an actor's journey.

Bought by KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 22
Big Freedia, “Queen of Bounce” — no guns, more twerking!
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Big Freedia is credited with bringing New Orleans "Bounce" music to the rest of the USA, Credit: Brad Hebert
New Orleans musician Big Freedia is famous for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
Theater Artist Kim Hines Authors Novella for Young Adults
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Kim Hines, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kim Hines
Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Ultimate Fugitive
From: KLCC
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This is a story about an Ultimate player trying to outrun his past. When he stopped running, he was in Eugene, Oregon. Where for the next four yea...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 57:28
  • Purchases: 2
My Pride
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2019
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My piece depicts the systemic racism that has infested the educational system and environment.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:06
Don't Stay Quiet
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2019
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My Grandmother, who I loved dearly, passed away, and nobody spoke up until three days later: I was told.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 06:59
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Vocalist, Dee Dee Bridgewater
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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In these short pieces, Dee Dee talks about scatting, her big break, and studying the moves of Betty Carter.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 13
Love and Faith and Music
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
The foot soldiers of the civil rights movement were shot, beaten, jailed, even murdered. Yet they kept on marching. Love for their community and fa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz and Civil Rights
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How the personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane were tied to the struggle for racial e...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KMUN, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KPSQ-LP, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 17
Zora Neale Hurston and the Blues
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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WFHB Blue Monday DJ and Blues guitarist Jason Fickel discusses Zora Neale Hurston with IU professor M. Cooper Harriss. The two look at the work of ...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Darius Clark Monroe and David Ned
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
BODE: THE SUMMER KING
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
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The All Star Baseball game this month is a perfect opportunity to introduce you to a new opera about a great Negro League Baseball Player.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
Jeff's Diary: Revisited
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Jeff Rogers
When Jeff Rogers was 16 years old he started referring to himself as a “halfrican.” Jeff has a black father and a white mother. And like many teena...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Sound Artist, Jennie C. Jones
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art. [26:26]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 26:26
  • Purchases: 1
It's too quiet here.
From: Julia Botero
Caption: James at Phillips Exeter
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:08
Waiting for Food
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: in line for food on Mission St. in San Francisco, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
What does it feel like to wait in line for food?

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:51
  • Purchases: 2
Moving Closer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 2
A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
No Argument Here
From: With Good Reason
Caption: James Farmer, Credit: Library of Congress
A college professor is following the footsteps of a civil rights icon James Farmer, by training his students in the art of debate. Lydia Wilson, ...

Bought by KUAC, WJAB, WCSU-FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4