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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
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Education both successful and failed, the sound of education and a taste of Beauty Salon Live!

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Land Arts of the American West 2011 participants, Credit: Joe DeMarco
Cathy Byrd drives to Lubbock, Texas, to meet with professor Chris Taylor and architecture students who participated in Land Arts of the American We...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 10:37
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In th...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Katie Marshall and Lisa Stauffer join Travis Ryder to preview the exhibitions appearing this month at MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. The mai...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 11:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Ken Burns talks about his most recent documentary series on the National Park system, as well as his approach to filmmaking and his attraction to i...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 22:24
Caption: Nicholson Baker
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...

Bought by KALW, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEOS and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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ARTIE SHAW WAS ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND OUTRAGEOUS FIGURES IN JAZZ. HE ONCE WROTE AN EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF WHICH READ, HE DID THE BEST HE COU...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
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NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND WAS A BIG FAN OF CLARINET AND SAX PLAYER, SIDNEY BECHET.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
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MCPARTLAND’S MUSICAL EDUCATION CONTINUED AT LONDON’S GUIDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC WHERE SHE STUDIED CLASSICAL PIANO.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
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IN 1956, 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS TOOK A SEAT IN THE RENOWNED DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND. IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP, WITH GI...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Lexington High School senior Alex Parrish leads the actors in a version of "Two-Headed Boy" by Neutral Milk Hotel, while freshman Emma Feinberg (right) sings along., Credit: Avishay Artsy
Students in Lexington, Mass. have written a play based on the music of '90s band Neutral Milk Hotel.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 07:10
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NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods describes how he composes music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Peter Sharer - Orbital Engineer

  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Steven Dick - NASA Chief Historian

  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:57
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Career Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Francine Hasegawa - Police Officer - Detroit, Michigan, USA

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 25, 2006
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Career Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Rebecca Pearl - Pool Manager - Maryland, USA

  • Added: Jul 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:14
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Randy Barrett - Banjo Player - Randy Barrett and the Barrettones

  • Added: Jul 10, 2006
  • Length: 02:34
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Luke Becker - Lead Quality Assurance Engineer (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

  • Added: Jul 05, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: John Troll - Optical Alignment Engineer (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

  • Added: Jun 16, 2006
  • Length: 02:22
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Novelist Rick Moody believes in the unlimited joy of reading a new book and interpreting its story.

Bought by WHFR, WMPG, WKMS, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 4
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Ray Ohl - Optical Physicist, NASA

  • Added: Jun 04, 2006
  • Length: 07:23
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Stuart Hill - Satellite Mechanical Engineer - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (STE...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Sue Schafer - Park Ranger (Shenandoah National Park)

  • Added: Jun 03, 2006
  • Length: 04:23
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Jim Adams - NASA Project Manager (STEREO)

  • Added: May 23, 2006
  • Length: 02:43