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Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 2
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 2 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, some series-excl...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 15:18
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 1
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 1 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 13:31
The Write Question - Kevin Canty - 286
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: 'The Underworld' by Kevin Canty
Kevin Canty discusses his novel, 'The Underworld,' along with the nature of the human experience and Canty's own creative process. He also reads fr...

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Taxi Driver
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
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
Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Ken Burns
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, two PBS legends. First a sit-down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. followed by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Aiko Ebihara and Roy Ebihara
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Seventy-five years ago this month President Roosevelt signed an executive order ordering all Japanese Americans into internment camps, including th...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Histories of Resistance in Ohio’s Prisons
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story of Si...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:54
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1555 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/17/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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An eclectic music mix this episode, why? Because we can. Inspired by musicians appearing in Hacksaw’s ‘hood recently, trumpeter Bruce Gates kicks i...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
A decorated veteran who served 24 years in the U.S. Army talks with his wife for the first time about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
Sekou Kambui
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:57
DC 1641
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Keepin' It Heavy

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
PE 1638
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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It's like having two (or more) shows in one!

Bought by KKRN, KEOS, KSRQ, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
SITPE # 1623
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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New Directions

Bought by KKRN, KKWE Niijii Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
The Punk Invasion - Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives
From: Creative PR
Series: Please Kill Me : Voices from the Archives
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The music of the Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, and The New York Dolls and others the others were meeting fierce resistance in the US. W...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KDUR, Prairie Public, KMXT, KALH and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 56:32
  • Purchases: 35
The Pioneers of Punk - Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives
From: Creative PR
Series: Please Kill Me : Voices from the Archives
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How the Warhol 60s morphed into the Punk 70s and marginalized inhabitants of a near-bankrupt New York City changed 20th century culture and influen...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KDUR, Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:17
  • Purchases: 37
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 1
Love and Faith and Music
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
The foot soldiers of the civil rights movement were shot, beaten, jailed, even murdered. Yet they kept on marching. Love for their community and fa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Black Power
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
From the Mississippi Delta, the call for Black Power electrified the nation in the 1960's. For some it was an affirmation of hope and strength, a p...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
An Hour of Jazz (Duke Ellington)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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An Hour of Jazz (Duke Ellington) is a short history and a musical dedication to Jazz legend Duke Ellington.

Bought by WEAA, WNCU, WNMU-FM, KTXK, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 6
Sol (Remembering The Hyatt Disaster)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
SITPE # 1541
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Ups And Downs

Bought by KWMR, KSRQ, KKRN, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
Chicago's Memory
From: Carolina Wheat
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A walking tour of Chicago's historical disasters

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:47

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