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Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Black History Month
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish celebrates Black History Month with hot Jewish music performed by African-American singers and instrumentalists

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" celebrates the coming Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day with songs and remarks extolling equal rights and affirming a fundamental a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
20230102: A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special, 1/2/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore the unique history of our region: the high desert southwest United States in the radio special of our ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour, we explore the unique history of our region: the high desert southwest United States in the radio special of our ...

Bought by KECG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
2022-12-25 How Relevant Is Jesus?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we know anything about Jesus' views on contemporary moral issues?

Bought by KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
NL 22-52: A Night Lights Wonderland, 12/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
Kristallnacht
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish commemorates the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rediscovering Hildegard
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Feast of Booths?
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for a musical celebration of the many sides of Sukkos.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
NL 22-44: Jazz Haunts for Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Smoke dreams, sorcerors, ghosts, and stalking monsters! We'll experience those paranormal jazz encounters with those spectors through the music of ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #278 ("Rock and Roll")
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 and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Important Words
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
The Jewish people's busy autumn holiday season culminates next week with Simchas Torah, the day for Rejoicing with the Hebrew Bible.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Get Right With The Universe
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
We're approaching Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, your official opportunity to get right with the universe.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Queen
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for liturgical and secular music about, and by Jewish queens.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03

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