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PE 2415
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Gimme That Ol' Time...Radio?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WFHB, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 20
Voice of the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The storms continue, the wildflowers begin to appear, and Chantel (our mysterious PCT through-hiker) probably made it to the Canadian border withou...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
221210 The First Rock and Roll Song - Early Canadian Instrumentals
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Gaylarks - a band Frank Zappa saw and swooned over while he was in high school.
The geographic assumption underlying the first rock and roll record was an origination in the Southern U.S. This assumption was superior to, and ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KPRG and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 04:22:10
  • Purchases: 6
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
A Look Back
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
The next “Sounds Jewish” marks Tisha B’Av, a day for mourning the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people on that day in history.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
DC 2206
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Further Adventures in 1969.

Bought by KNCT FM, KRZA, Harford Community Radio, KDUR, KRSC and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
619: Is War Ever Worth It? / 620: Is The Universe A Number?, 9/11/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Is War Ever Worth It?' - On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, photographer James Nachtwey reflects on his life as a war photographer, a...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - A Corner of Space and Time
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Lee Nye's portrait of Joe Malatare
Jean Belangie-Nye, Aaron Teasdale, and Ben Ferencz discuss their book, "A Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nye's Eddie's Club Portraits."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Concrete Jesus
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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An orphan child from Cincinnati loved the scriptures and lived a live of gold-mine adventure in the Almost-Old West before winding up in a bomber-p...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ranger's Life
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
History of Stereo Photography with Bob Taunt
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we talk to local historian and stereo photography buff, Bob Taunt. Bob recently gave a presentation about the history o...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:06
101: Jimmy Legs
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The term Jimmy Legs describes both a syndrome and the restless leg bumping up and down that some of us do when nervous or full of energy. Let's fin...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
77: Maud Stevens Wagner
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Born in Kansas in 1877, Maud grew up to be the first white female tattoo artist in the United States.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:29
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Martyrdom of Francisco Ferrer: A Conversation with Mark Bray
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Engraving on marble reproduction of the painting of the execution of Francisco Ferrer, made by Flavio Costantini. Behind the soldiers, two monks, a bourgeois and a civil guard attend the execution.
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
180526 Southern Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
The Author of the Declaration of Independence
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women and the Gold Rush Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Kate Magruder, who portrays Louise Smith Clapp, who, under the pen name Dame Shirley, documented Califor...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:02
The Revolutionary Heart and Life of Clarina Nichols
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio curious revisits a conversation with Diane Eickhoff, who portrays early women's rights activist Clarina Nichols in this chautauquan style int...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance (Celene Lillie) ENCORE
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: The Rape of Eve by Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 3
170819 Economic History of New Orleans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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An economic history of New Orleans doesn't involve military statues or big men to build a mythological story and capture the romantic's view of her...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:45:50
Boilermaker Classics
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Purdue Boilermakers, Credit: Purdue
We’ll hear music about trains, and learn some little known facts and myths about Purdue on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1561 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/29/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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This episode we’re heavy on tropical rhythms, especially Brazilian. Canhoto da Paraiba doesn’t care about fame, just guitar. Reflective substantive...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Underground Railroad in New Bedford, Massachusetts
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1