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July 2024 Episodes
From: James O'Connor
Series: Sound Beat
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Sound Beat episodes for the month of July 2024.

Bought by WYPL, KVSC, and KGLP


  • Added: Jun 25, 2024
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 3
Baby Blues (#1542)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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A hundred years ago, suffragists lobbied to win women the right to vote. Linguistically speaking, though, suffrage isn't about "suffering." It's fr...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Tri States Public Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
070824: Trains, 7/8/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we get onboard and learn about trains. The Kids Crew went on a field trip to The Wheels Museum of Albuquerque, and...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Sleeve Island (#1637)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Language from inside a monastery. A Benedictine monk in the Episcopal Church shares terms from his world: For example, corporate prayer refers to p...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTXK, WSLR, WPCA-LP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Black Indianapolis Series
From: Deqah Hussein-Wetzel
Series: Black Indianapolis Series
Caption: Black Indianapolis Series, Credit: Urbanist Media
This two-part series on African American history in Indianapolis, IN, takes you to Indiana Avenue—a once vibrant Black corridor with homes, restaur...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:54
Complete With His Language: Kenny Pheasant and the Great Lakes' Original Tongue
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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Kenny Pheasant first became a teacher of Anishinaabemowin at 14 – from behind the meat counter at a grocery store. Now, it's his life mission to ge...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:03
Ghost Towns Lost and Found
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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David Exelby was scrolling through Reddit when he came across a mysterious post. This guy had stumbled on a ghost town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsul...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 16:04
Walkie Talkie (#1541)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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One of the most powerful words you'll ever hear -- and one of the most poignant -- isn't in dictionaries yet. But it probably will be one day. The ...

Bought by KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WPCA-LP, WNIN and more


  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Tiger Tail (#1540)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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You may have a favorite word in English, but what about your favorite in another language? The Spanish term ojala is especially handy for expressin...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KTXK, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
2024-06-02 Marcus Aurelius
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you have to be an emperor to live a Stoic life?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
June 2024 Episodes
From: James O'Connor
Series: Sound Beat
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Sound Beat episodes for the month of June 2024.

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KKRN, WOMR, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP and more


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 13
The Untold Story of the St. Cloud State University Archives with Tom Steman
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
Caption: This vintage plate is one of the new additions that Tom Steman talks about in the interview., Credit: St. Cloud State University Archives
KVSC Station Manager Dan Seeger interviews Tom Steman, the archivist at St. Cloud State University, about the most recent additions to the school's...

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 28:17
Clever Clogs (#1539)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Ribbon fall. Gallery forest. You won't find terms like these in most dictionaries, but they and hundreds like them are discussed by famous writers ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTXK, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
HBCU Renaissance (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WUTC, WXDU, Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
HBCU Renaissance (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
HBCU Renaissance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
HBCU Renaissance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
2423: Marcus Aurelius, 6/4/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do you have to be an emperor to lead a Stoic life?

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Bug in Your Ear (#1537)
From: A Way with Words
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Is there something inherent in English that makes it the linguistic equivalent of the Borg, dominating and consuming other languages in its path? N...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, KECG, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Jazz Age
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Recreating a sensation that's travelling around the country, I'm presenting George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Peter Boyer's brand new compani...

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


  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:26
  • Purchases: 3
Program 196
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Music inspired by Mexico by Aaron Copland, Broken Music by Kenji Bunch, We'll be serenaded by Nicolas Flagello, and experience the magic of Chaplin.

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


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 3
The Black Dog (#1536)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Books were rare treasures in the Middle Ages, painstakingly copied out by hand. So how to protect them from theft? Scribes sometimes added a curse ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WPCA-LP, KTXK and more


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Four Symphonic Secrets Revealed
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Animal Crackers (#1636)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Images of birds flutter inside lots of English words and phrases, from "nest egg" and "pecking order," to proverbs from around the world--including...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KTXK, WPCA-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WNIN and more


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Beside Myself (#1535)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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The new Downton Abbey movie is a luscious treat for fans of the public-television period piece, but how accurate is the script when it comes to the...

Bought by WPCA-LP, WNIN, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15

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