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Women Making Music: k.d. lang
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Genre defying performer k.d. lang remarks on her life in music as WXPN continues it's "Women Making Music" vignettes.

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Lucinda Williams
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In celebration of Women's History Month our Women Making Music series continues with words and music from Alt. Country singer-songwriter Lucinda Wi...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 8
Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Veteran singer songwriter shares insights about her music as part of WXPN's Women's history month series Women Making Music.

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 9
More Than "Guys & Dolls"-Frank Loesser
From: Amber Edwards
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Evergreen profile of Frank Loesser, composer of "Guys & Dolls", the most frequently produced musical ever

Bought by KERA, KOTO, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 3
Little Gray Book Lecture: How to Communicate Without the Use of Wires
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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Lectures by Paul Tough and Starlee Kine, walkie-talkie banter and a song about NY ME host Soterios Johnson

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, WBEZ, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 21, 2005
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 4
The Beatles In America - 1964 (2 Hours @ 59:00 or 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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A lively two-hour montage of rare archival audio, concert recordings, and new interviews on The Beatles' first U.S. grand tour. Hour 1 focuses on ...

Bought by WSKG, WUSF, WHRV, KSJE, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2005
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 52
Vince Giordano
From: Amber Edwards
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the "greatest generation" had the greatest music, according to hot jazz bandleader/historian Vince Giordano

Bought by KERA


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Written in My Soul from Me to You: Blood on the Tracks at 30
From: WFUV
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A special radio tribute to Bob Dylan's landmark album.

Bought by KSUT, NPR Illinois, WBEZ, WMPG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2005
  • Length: 01:58:58
  • Purchases: 9
RN Documentary: Holland's Second Queen - Annie MG Schmidt
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of one of Holland’s best loved writers – a cross between Enid Blyton and Cole Porter, Annie MG Schmidt wrote children’s books as well as...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
Size Isn't Everything
From: Shea Shackelford
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Joel Eckhaus makes and plays ukuleles in South Portland, Maine.

Bought by WMPG and WBHM


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 2
Saul and Joshua
From: Seth Lind
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A portrait of a subway musican duo struggling to stay together

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 13, 2004
  • Length: 21:48
  • Purchases: 2
Bruce Hornsby - Live from the Road
From: Tres Hombres Productions
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Exciting live performances by Bruce Hornsby and his five-piece band from various dates ontheir 2004 tour.

Bought by Prairie Public, WUMB, and KUHB


  • Added: Dec 02, 2004
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: The Intriguing Theremin
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The history of the first electronic instrument and its enigmatic maker.

Bought by WMUH, KFAI Minneapolis, XRAY.fm, Radio New Zealand, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 9
A Winter Solstice with Helicon (One Hour or Two Hours)
From: WPSU
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Eclectic Holiday folk concert, recorded live in Baltimore.

Bought by KBBI Alaska, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMXT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2004
  • Length: 01:58:34
  • Purchases: 26
Finding Emo
From: Merle Kessler
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A look at the music genre "emo," and what it has to do with, well, me.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 1
Program 6: Rotterdam Conducted by Valery Gergiev
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Rotterdam Revisited: The Orchestra and Its Conductors
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Gergiev conducts Rotterdam in Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" - in its entirety.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2004
  • Length: 02:54:50
Skagway Music Makers
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Two unlikley musicians find each other in Skagway Alaska and produce a song that is the title track for an award winning movie

  • Added: Aug 27, 2004
  • Length: 14:35
Hassidic (yes, Hassidic) Reggae
From: Aaron Henkin
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Matisyahu is a Hassidic Jew, and the front man for his own reggae band.

Bought by KBBI Alaska, PRX, KZUM, KCUR, Audible and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 6
The Organ Builder
From: Aaron Henkin
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A a pipe organ builder discusses the theatre of a religious ceremony, and misses his days as a performing organist.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
Banjo Pete
From: Aaron Henkin
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Baltimore punker Pete Ross builds historically accurate gourd banjos in his basement.

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and Audible


  • Added: Aug 25, 2004
  • Length: 12:47
  • Purchases: 3
Turnstyles 003 Hour 1: Trailer Bride
From: John Schaefer
Series: Turnstyles
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This week we bring you a diverse mix of music and a conversation with Melissa Swingle of Trailer Bride.

Bought by KGUA and WZBC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
Sawlady
From: Noah Reibel
Series: Playing for Change
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a light profile of a subway musician

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Turnstyles 006 Hour 1: Matmos
From: John Schaefer
Series: Turnstyles
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This week we bring you a diverse mix of music and a conversation with the electronic duo Matmos

Bought by KGUA and WZBC


  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Well-Rounded Radio Interview with Múm
From: Charles McEnerney
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In-depth interview with Iceland's Múm

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jul 11, 2004
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Well-Rounded Radio Interview with Baskervilles and Douglas Fir
From: Charles McEnerney
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In-depth interviews with members of pop groups The Baskervilles (New York City) and The Douglas Fir (Boston).

  • Added: Jul 11, 2004
  • Length: 56:14

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