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John Prine | Episode 24-16
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 KMXT, WGZS, KSJE, KFCF FM, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
Women's History Month (3/20/24 release)- Climate Catastrophe, Lessons From the Frontlines: Colette Pichon Battle, Taproot Earth
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In our continuing coverage of the ongoing climate catastrophe, we often ask what we can learn from the experiences of people living on its frontlin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Women's History Month- Andrea J. Ritchie: Emergent Strategies for Abolition Toolkit (3/13/24 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Salute to Glen Campbell | Episode 24-01
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 WGZS, KMSU, KSJE, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Up Close And Acoustic with Madrigal
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: The Madrigal album, American release, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic pic of my copy
At a recent vinyl record convention, having mostly struck out with my shopping list, I took a chance on an album with a cool, very 'of the period' ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 23, 2023
  • Length: 56:13
  • Purchases: 1
AG 23-26: Roberta Flack’s New American Songbook, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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In the 1970s, singer Roberta Flack made a name for herself performing covers of songs by folk singers and other little-known artists, creating, in ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Bernard Offen – "Surviving the Holocaust"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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My Hometown Concentration Camp Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 2/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
AG 23-06: Isn't It Romantic?, 2/6/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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For Valentine’s Day, we’re exploring romance in the Great American Songbook, including songs like “Isn’t It Romantic,” “A Fine Romance,” and “This...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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
In the Haunted Mountains (with Betty & Barney Hill)
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted W...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here in the Mojave. Just a few days after massive flash floods washed out a number of roads within ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
AG 22-28: Eckstine’s Proteges: Arthur Prysock and Johnny Hartman, 7/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Johnny Hartman's 1964 Impulse Album Cover
Few singers had as much of an influence on the next generation as the suave, full-throated “Mr. E” Billy Eckstine. This week, we’ll explore the wor...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Our Ecosystems of Healing: Take Back The Night With Talyor Laur
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Our Ecosystems of Healing: Take Back The Night With Talyor Laur

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
The Oak Center General Store Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we bring you Part 2 of our series on a Minnesota music venue that is truly a hidden gem, The Oak Center General Store. The ...

  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
Last Blast of Winter
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode about the desert in winter, appropriate for our spring blast of rain and snow and cold, cold te...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chinese-American writer Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses her debut novel, "Four Treasures of the Sky."

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Indigenous Women and Leaders’ Lessons on Community Care, a Tipi Town Approach
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Solidarity With Ukraine
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish presents secular and religious Jewish music from Ukraine in solidarity with all of the Ukrainian people.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
AG 22-02: The Artistry Of Stephen Sondheim, 1/3/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we remember the artistry of American songwriter Stephen Sondheim, and his many contributions to the American songbook, like “Small World...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Medicine Show
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, ...

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
A New Day for Public Television?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It’s a new day, and the nation’s most trusted media institution has some new direction. Sylvia Bugg was named the Chief Programming Executive and G...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3