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681.B: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/10/2024 1:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including GRIFFES: Japanese Melodies (3) (3) . Perspectives Ensemble.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
681.A: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/10/2024 12:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including PIAZZOLLA: Verano Porteno (Tango) (Tango) ; Berta Rojas, guitar.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:31
Material Influence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Snowmask
Besides having the moniker of “The Roaring Twenties”, not everyone was partying. Creative minds were at a peak coming up with new inventions. Who n...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Riding The Wind | Episode 24-18
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KFCF FM, KMSU, WDSE, WGZS, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Faithful Foundations: Unveiling the Moral Roots of American Capitalism
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang
🔥 Unearth the untold story behind America's economic dawn here on radio and podcast🌅 Join us for a riveting episode 🎙️ "Faith In Markets of America...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 35:34
Connie's Inn, Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Credit: CBS Studio
The nightlife that blossomed in Chicago and New York in the teens and ‘20s are the thread that laced together audience and music. In earlier years,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Literature and Art
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Winold Reiss
“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” Those words come from F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith - LDS Experience in Turkey
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Steve discusses the history of LDS converts in Turkey, starting with 19th century Armenians.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 1
Candice Millard on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Candice Millard tells intimate stories of great leaders, digging into their most vulnerable moments to reveal their true character. She is the auth...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 30:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Grapes of Wrath
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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John Steinbeck's masterpiece of hard times and hope in 1930's America.

Bought by KCHW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 37
The Spanish Hour 2416: Remembering Guernica
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Detail from Picasso's Gernika (Guernica)
We commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica (April 26, 1937) with “Guernica” Piano Trio number 1 by Octavio Vá...

Bought by WCQS, WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 39
An Influencial Foursome
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe "King" Oliver
It was a lengthy journey from obscurity to international popularity. No one will say it was easy. But, with steadfast perseverance and endless cre...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Episode 24-14
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KFCF FM, KMSU, WRFA-LP, WDSE, KSJE and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
In Good Faith - Book Club, Poetry by Rumi
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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In Good Faith welcomes two guests to discuss "Rumi: Studying the Sun".

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 1
European Dance Bands
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bert Ambrose
As traditional jazz evolved through the 1920s, audiences in Europe began gravitating toward larger dance bands. Live performances at dance halls an...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 24-15: The Jazz Monk: Thomas Merton, 4/8/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Thomas Merton was one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century—and he was also a passionate jazz fan. We’ll talk with jazz mu...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Mountaineer Grace Leach Hudowalski
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History tells the story of Grace Leach Hudowalski, the first woman to summit all 46 of the Adirondack High Pea...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
885: Does AI dream? / 886: Why do we have so much stuff?, 3/30/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Does AI dream?" - Say you're an artist and you want to paint something you can't see. What if AI can? Are you dreaming together? HOUR ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
On the Continent
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Hot Club of France
Between 1917 and the early ’30s there is a transformative era for jazz in Europe. While the music gets a foothold in America, it quickly spreads ac...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith - Rumi and the Sheikh
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Celebrating the power of faith and belief.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 1
Anishinaabe Dibaajimowin: An Ojibwe Story | Episode 24-12
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KMSU, WRFA-LP, WNMU-FM, WDSE, KSJE and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Blame Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: James P. Johnson
Jazz had to deal with a number of hurdles, in the 1920s, before it was eventually accepted by the American public. Even then, it was very limited a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith - Ottomans and the Imam
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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We explore Islam in Turkey and chat with a former Imam who founded a school to teach girls how to recite the Koran.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 1
DC 2412
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Ups And Downs (but mostly ups)

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KRSC, KIYU-FM, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Boosting Morale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
In the decade of the1920s, jazz evolves into the heartbeat of America. The music is the catapult into a new era around the world. Looking back, it ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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