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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
The Jazz Mother of the Piano: Mary Lou Williams
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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She was called "The First Lady of the Piano", "The First Lady of the Jazz Piano" and "The First Lady of Jazz". She was Mary Lou Williams and was a ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 57:03
  • Purchases: 3
The allure of the Man of Steel
From: Kristen Eicher
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Travel to Metropolis, IL., the official hometown of Superman, the Man of Steel.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
Sun Ra: The Celestial Spirit of Music
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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"Sun Ra: The Celestial Spirit of Music" is a one hour program which is an introduction to the vast music of the legendary music ICON Sun Ra. His di...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 56:39
  • Purchases: 1
Berlin Journal - Richard Holbrooke's Legacy
From: The American Academy in Berlin
Series: Berlin Journal
Caption: Richard C. Holbrooke
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:36
James Brown:The Godfather of Soul
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: James Brown - In the Jungle Groove, Credit: Polydor Records
This is the best of JAMES BROWN from the 1970s and the FUNK! James Brown (Born: May 3, 1933, Barnwell, SC Died: December 25, 2006, Atlanta, GA) T...

Bought by KVNF, KPIP-LP, Prairie Public, WVAS, and WJAB


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:47
  • Purchases: 5
The Blues Rib Shack (Show III)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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The "Blues Rib Shack" is a Blues music show lasting one hour with three segments. This show is part of a limited series of shows that your listen...

  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 55:13
Clean your clock
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:26
Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press
Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
Harlem In Revolt - Part #2
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Harlem In Revolt - Part #1
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Storyville: "Finding It In The Sun"
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans baseball team; Shoeless Joe Jackson is #12.
This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
Program I: Route 66 Forever
From: David Dunaway
Series: Across The Tracks: A Route 66 Story
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Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story chronicles the history and peoples of America’s most famous and best-loved road. Produced by David Dunaway and...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Re:sound - The Texas State Pen Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2014 Re:sound Specials, from the Third Coast Festival
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This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul - the kind you dance to, and the kind you ...

Bought by WVPE, WRIR, KALW, 90.5 WESA, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
African American Voices
From: Daniel Gilliam
Caption: Leontyne Price, Credit: Carl Van Vechten
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 45:00
  • Purchases: 10
Program III: Topical and Protest Songs
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
Caption: Pete Seeger
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...

Bought by KUNM, KGLP, WOWD, KWMR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 21
Pearl Curran - "Ghost"-writer
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
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
Rock and Revolution
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Associate professor Patrick Burke reveals how musicians in the 1960s, including the rock band the Godz, resisted predetermined categories and simpl...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 14:00
Sly Stone: The Alpha and the Omega of the Funk!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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SLY STONE (Sylvester Stewart) is Rock, he is Funk and he is Soul. He is the one benchmark that all of the other bands and musicians mimic when they...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WSLR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 2
The District
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: One of E. J. Belloqc's Storyville portraits.
This is the premier story for Storyville, about Storyville. University of New Orleans' Robin Baudier looks back on this historic district, and what...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
Chicago Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBBI Alaska, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 32
Back to New Orleans
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Legendary musicians from New Orleans are featured in this program doing what they do best. This program contains the best of the New Orleans sound ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WSLR, WEZU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 55:35
  • Purchases: 4

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