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10,000 GOOD SONGS - #368
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE - Optional Bonus Hour For The Fans
From: Paul Ingles
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Previously un-aired bonus content from THE EMERGENCE OF JACKSON BROWNE series by producer Paul Ingles. They gathered so many comments and tributes...

Bought by KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Oct 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Mary Wharton on her Tom Petty Film
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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A 2021 documentary film about rocker Tom Petty's landmark WILDFLOWERS album is the focus of a conversation with the film's director Mary Wharton. A...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach, KGLT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
2021 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL (Single Hour)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Charlie Watts, Dusty Hill, Mary Wilson
On the 2021 Musicians Memorial Special, music host Paul Ingles remembers a partial list of some of the major artists, from multiple music genres, w...

Bought by KVMR, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Spokane Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 43
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Why Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones Mattered (Part 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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UPDATED TO INCLUDE MENTIONS OF CHARLIE'S DEATH AUG 24, 2021... The late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is celebrated in Hour 2 of this 2-Hou...

Bought by KDUR, WCMU Michigan, WUTC, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMSU and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Why Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones Mattered (Part 1 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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UPDATED TO INCLUDE MENTIONS OF CHARLIE WATTS DEATH - AUG. 24, 2021. The late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is celebrated in Hour 1 of thi...

Bought by KDUR, WCMU Michigan, WUTC, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMSU and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
SPRINGSTEEN: Writers' Favorites (HOUR 1)
From: Paul Ingles
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"...articulate, thoughtful, moving" A LIMITED SERIES. Producer Paul Ingles gathers 7 top music writers to talk about their favorite Bruce Springs...

Bought by WHRV, KUOW, KSUT, KSRQ, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Innovation Dialogues - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Series: The Innovation Dialogues
Caption: SFHS Innovation Academy youth producers
Students at Santa Fe High School’s Innovation Academy discuss high school culture, the effects of technology on education, the challenges of media ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
Pranking Emily Dickenson
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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Poet Paul Legault shares how he challenged the norms of translation in his interpretations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 14:00
Untethered Histories
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 15:12
  • Purchases: 1
A Mirror World
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:39
Restless Souls
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: In 1912, Abdul-Baha, leader of the Baha'i faith, visited Greenacre, a religious community in Maine founded by Sarah Farmer., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Spiritual but not religious? Professor Leigh Schmidt uses the story of Sarah Farmer, a 19th-century visionary, to illustrate the ever-present strug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 1
Art and Nationhood
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: Frederic Church, “Our Banner in the Sky” (1861)
Professor Angela Miller uses examples of portraits, landscape and genre paintings, folk art, and more to describe the intersection of American arts...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:58
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Steve Downing - "Cherries"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
What a Jobless Recovery Looks Like
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:00