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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...
- Added: Jan 03, 2024
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
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
In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 08:31
Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.
Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Jul 04, 2023
- Length: 52:01
- Purchases: 3
Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 2
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
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
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 10:12
“There’s so much that is mysterious about Bach’s Mass,” Bill says, and this week he attempts to demystify Bach’s grand work by setting its context ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2023
- Length: 58:59
“There’s so much that is mysterious about Bach’s Mass,” Bill says, and this week he attempts to demystify Bach’s grand work by setting its context ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...
- Added: Feb 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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
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
"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
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
Mozart’s six “Haydn” Quartets were dedicated and lovingly handed to Joseph Haydn, like a father entrusting his sons to a friend to protect and guid...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Mozart’s six “Haydn” Quartets were dedicated and lovingly handed to Joseph Haydn, like a father entrusting his sons to a friend to protect and guid...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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
Today in part two of a two-part episode, Dr. Lewis discusses their experiences in academia. Dr. Moten is a Black Feminist Historian who specializes...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 27:00
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
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
Destination North Star State Radio Project is an invitation to learn more about and to explore the North Star State, and is produced by Highway 61 ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2022
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 2
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
Sometimes what we remember from our childhood is confused with the stories other people tell us. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 01:03
Our Ecosystems of Healing: Take Back The Night With Talyor Laur
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 59:59
