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Episode 23: Alexander Portelli - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Alexander Portelli (left); Bobby Pickles (right)
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 44:31
Platinum Gospel "Shirley Caesar"
From: Barbara Kovacs
Series: Christian Minstrel Pioneers
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Join host Bill Bulbeck as he explores the life, times and music from the reigning "Queen of Gospel" Shirley Caesar in Episode #2 of Christian Minst...

Bought by KZYX and WSGE


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Odd Couple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Benny Goodman
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Benny Goodman
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Wordsmiths
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Caesar
This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1310
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Heavy focus

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Charles Mingus
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 119: The South in the 30's and 40's
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: Catherine King reads at Tales from the South
We go way back in time for this very special show, featuring true stories from the 1930's and 40's, told by the Southerners who lived them. Stories...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 34:00
The Songsters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George & Ira Gershwin
Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
210: Conrad and the Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
It's About Eubie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Young Eubie Blake
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.

Bought by KMUW, WVIA, KCBX, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Ikey
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Banjo Ikey Robinson
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Search for Sacred Ground
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Host Mary Hynes leads listeners on a search for the definition of Sacred Ground.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:47:08
SITPE # 1244
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Last week's show continued.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Road to Ruin Is Paved -- A Fierce Green Fire
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
SITPE # 1236
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Riding the 1967 bell curve.

Bought by KWMR, KHNS, KSJD, KMXT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
David George Ball: A Marked Heart
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
SITPE # 1227
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Geographical progressions, Steppenwolf and the Lizard King.

Bought by KWMR, KHNS, KKRN, KPVL, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Na'alehu Anthony
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Na'alehu Anthony discusses his documentary about traditional Polynesian open sea canoeing and its significance to the revitalization of Hawaiian cu...

Bought by KZYX and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 2
SITPE # 1218
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Getting to the core of the matter.

Bought by KWMR, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KKRN, KEOS, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
SITPE # 1203
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
Caption: In The Court Of The Crimson King, Credit: Barry Godber
St. Elijah Stephen, and the eleven Crimson Kings.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
SITPE # 1202
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
Caption: Turn On The Music Machine, Credit: (debut album)
A Music Machine in every set.

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KKRN, KPVL, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
SITPE # 1151
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stuck with the hermit at Yuletide again.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMXT, KSRQ, KWMR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From: A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 11

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