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A School for All
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Louise Fraser, Credit: Fraser School
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 07:02
Kite in a Phonebooth (#1524)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Stunt performers in movies have their own jargon for talking about their dangerous work. They refer to a stunt, for example, as a gag. Across the c...

Bought by KTXK, WPCA-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Takes All Kinds (#1627)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Crossword puzzles are a marvelous mental workout. A delightful new book about them shares plenty of crossword lore and puzzle-solving tips. Also, p...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WNIN, WPCA-LP, KTSW 89.9, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Concert Movies
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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With Beyonce and Taylor Swift setting records with their two new concert films, we decided to offer up some other concert films for you to enjoy th...

Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KWIT, KSRQ, KECG and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Program 193
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Armenian Folk Songs by Alan Hovhaness, memories of summer by Howard Hanson, Themes for silent movies by William Perry and others.

Bought by KVNO, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWAX, and WDPR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 4
Program 192
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Seafaring music by Howard Hanson, music of faith and inspiration by Jonathan Leshnoff and Barbara Harbach, music for flute by Amy Beach and piano m...

Bought by KVNO, GCR (Global Community Radio), WDPR, and KWAX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
Centering Authentic Indigenous Voices
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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To start its latest season, the award-winning A New York Minute in History podcast celebrates Native American Heritage Month with a conversation ab...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Strawberry Moon (#1522)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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We asked for your thoughts about whether cursive writing should be taught in schools -- and you replied with a resounding "Yes!" Here's why: Cursiv...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
851: How Should We Tell Our History? / 852: Searching For Order In The Universe, 12/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Program 191
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Dance music by Henry F. Gilbert, movements from a hot piano concerto by teddy Abrams, John Alden Carpenter sets poetry by Tagore, Americana by Will...

Bought by KVNO, WDPR, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KWAX


  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 4
Highway Robbery (#1626)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Secret signals on the job: Waitresses at some 19th-century restaurants ensured speedy drink service by communicating with a non-verbal code. One se...

Bought by WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WNIN, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTXK and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Spill the Tea (#1521)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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If someone urges you to spill the tea, they probably don't want you tipping over a hot beverage. Originally, the tea here was the letter T, as in t...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WPCA-LP, KTXK, Raven Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
LSD
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week in 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann invented LSD. It became a force in the 60s and gave us a new genre of music. Psychedelic.

Bought by KHNS, KWIT, KSRQ, KTRL, and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Alle Menschen werden Bruder
From: KWIT
Series: Listen to This!
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The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with a performance of Beethoven 7

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:16
Dirty Laundry (#1520)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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When you had sleepovers as a child, what did you call the makeshift beds you made on the floor? In some places, you call those bedclothes and blank...

Bought by WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WNIN, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KECG and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
The Democratic Party
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the party that supported slavery become the party that nominated our first African-American president?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
Strong Coffee (#1625)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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During the late 19th and early 20th century, thousands of volunteers helped crowdsource the Oxford English Dictionary. This venerable reference wor...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KTSW 89.9, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week is an interview with authors Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel about their new book, Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine. I ask them about t...

Bought by KSRQ, KHNS, KWIT, KECG, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Keep Your Powder Dry (#1519)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Jacuzzi and silhouette are eponyms – that is, they derive from the names of people. An Italian immigrant to California invented the bubbly hot tub ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTSW 89.9, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
Bruce Patterson – "Old Time Tales of Anderson Valley"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 30, 2006 Walking Tractor And Other Tales of Old Anderson Valley Stories of the days that no longer exist in rural ar...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Seen and Obscene
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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The birth of obscenity laws in the 1870s provides a cautionary tale for the present moment, when far-right conservatives incorrectly label books “s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 26:15
  • Purchases: 1
One-Armed Paper Hanger (#1518)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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The emotional appeal of handwriting and the emotional reveal of animal phrases. Should children be taught cursive writing in school, or is their ti...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Hair on Your Tongue (#1517)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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If you speak both German and Spanish, you may find yourself reaching for a German word instead of a Spanish one, and vice versa. This puzzling expe...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
GJ Interviews Gov. Regis Pecos (Part Two)
From: Generation Justice Admin
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This week on Generation Justice, we hear from Governor Regis Pecos, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Leadership Institute at Santa Fe Indian Schoo...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 23:01
GJ Interviews Gov. Regis Pecos (Part One)
From: Generation Justice Admin
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This week on Generation Justice, we hear from Governor Regis Pecos, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Leadership Institute at Santa Fe Indian Schoo...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 34:29

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