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EE 24-21: Food Sovereignty in times of transition, 5/24/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Sociologist Diana Mincyte has been studying dairy farming in Lithuania and other post-socialist Eastern European states. She says that what happens...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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 KHNS, KVSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WJCU, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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 Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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 WRGY


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
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 WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #369 ("Double Down")
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 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
NL 24-24: Matrix: The Emergence of Chick Corea, 6/10/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A tribute to the pianist featuring his recordings with Stan Getz, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and as a leader in the 1960s.

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
NL 24-23: The Fabulous Fats Navarro, 6/3/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
NL 24-22: Kind Of Two: Miles Davis & Bill Evans, 5/27/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring the brief but profound musical relationship between trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans that resulted in the landmark album Kind...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
HARM 24-21: Intabulation, Part 1, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
The Art of Healing: Finding Strength Through Frida Kahlo
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Outdoor mural featuring Frida Kahlo, Credit: In Confianza, with Pulso
“In Confianza, with Pulso” producer Anthony Wallace brings us the story of Thania Betancourt Alcazar. A member of “The Phoenix Fridas,” Alcazar di...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lillian Faderman: The Emotional Truth of "My Mother's Wars"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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LGBT and Ethnic Scholar and Author Lillian Faderman discusses her book My Mother’s Wars a reconstructed memoir of her mother’s life as an Jewish i...

Bought by KMUN, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
NL 24-21: The Duke Is On The Air: Duke Ellington’s 1945 Treasury Department Shows, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
HARM 24-22: Nordic Tunes, 5/27/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Put on a sweater, because this week on Harmonia, we’re touring the Nordic countries. Often left out of the discussion when it comes to early music,...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Drugging France (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Drugging France (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

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


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Drugging France (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Drugging France (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #367
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 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #366
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #365
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
2024-05-12 Mary Wollstonecraft
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How does inequality distort our personalities and relationships?

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


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
NL 24-20: A Winning Season of Jazz: Columbia Records in the Late 1970s, 5/13/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:04

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