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Music Archive Showcase #166 - Celebrating the Late Paul Buckmaster
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Paul Buckmaster
Paul Ingles hosts a music mix special that elevates some of the finest examples or orchestrator and conductor Paul Buckmaster's contributions to so...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
THE 2023 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Part 2 of music special producer Paul Ingles' thoughtful, heart-felt, year-end music mix program that allows us all to honor many of the music grea...

Bought by WORT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSJE, KFSK, KRVS and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Essay – The Roots of Antisemitism
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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In the early 20th century, a potent wave of anti-Semitism began to sweep across Europe. Fuelled by deep-rooted prejudices and exacerbated by econom...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:14
2023-10-13 Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
231013: Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo, 10/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - (OPTIONAL) HOUR 2
From: Paul Ingles
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More names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this optional second hour long special hosted by music historian and docume...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
THE 2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - HOUR 1 (with an optional HOUR 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Christine McVie, Coolio, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn
Some of the top names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this hour long special hosted by music historian and documentari...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCU Public Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
13 (4) 9/11 (a 10,000 GOOD SONGS SPECIAL)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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As a remembrance of all that was felt on September 11, 2001 - the day of coordinated terrorist hijacking attacks on the USA - we present 13 of the ...

Bought by KGLP and KRVS


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Tell Saki - Part I
From: Israel Story
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In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:51
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
Musicians' Memorial 2020 - Jazz/R&B/Soul Edition
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: McCoy Tyner / Bonnie Pointer / Wallace Roney
Music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts 1 of 4 hours remembering musicians who passed away in 2020. This edition spotlights jazz/R&B/soul artists lo...

Bought by KSJE, Prairie Public, Troy Public Radio, KMSU, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
When Beethoven Ruined Beethoven
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That - Shortcuts
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In addition to being a great composer, Beethoven was a world-class pianist. But his last performance did not go at all well, as Dale McGowan explains.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:48
Stories From My Grandma
From: Elias Schutzman
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My Grandma Jody, who recently passed away, sharing her life story...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 22:23
In Memoriam 2019
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look at the musicians we lost in 2019.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:44
F-Word: Woodstock Urges Roaming
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
In Memoriam 2018
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
The Alabama 35
From: Robin Washington
Caption: The Duluth, Minn. delegation to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. gathers in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial to that city's 1920 lynching before boarding a bus for a 1,223-mile journey to Alabama in April., Credit: Julia Cheng
The fascinating journey of delegates from Duluth, Minn. - the scene of a horrific triple lynching in 1920 and the first city to erect a prominent m...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 47:57
  • Purchases: 1
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #42
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.

Bought by KFSK, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
Planet P
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
The Working Tapes: Press Agent
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Eddie Jaffee, Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Piano Player
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3