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686.A: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/17/2024 12:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including HAYDN: Scherzando No. 3. Haydn Sinfonietta Wien/Manfred Huss.

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
683.R: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/14/2024 5:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including DVORAK: Romance in F Minor, Op. 11. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Manfred Honeck; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:02
683.W: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/14/2024 10:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including HERBERT: American Fantasia. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
683.B: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/14/2024 1:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including STILL: A Deserted Plantation; Mark Boozer, piano.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
681.H: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/10/2024 7:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including GRIFFES: Poem for Flute & Orchestra (1918) (1918) . Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Gerard Schwarz; Scott Goff, flute.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
PE 2252
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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The British Are Coming!

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM, KHNS, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 16
AG 22-03: Charlie Parker With Voices, 1/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week on Afterglow, we pay tribute to bebop legend Charlie Parker. I’ll feature his recordings with vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, as well as vo...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Breakin' in the 612: How breakdancing has evolved in the Twin Cities
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Jack "Boogie B" Riley and Charles Thorstad a.k.a. Stepchild, Credit: Bao Lee Riley
Despite being far removed from places like New York, Los Angeles, or Houston, Minneapolis and St. Paul and their suburbs have earned some hip-hop s...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:46
We've Been Here Before
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 26:41
Finntown
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 18:31
DC 2049
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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From the late 60s to free-form fun.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, Raven Radio, WOUB, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
PE 2017
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Donovan flies Jefferson Airplane and gets Happy Trails.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KMUN, KDUR and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
DC 2016
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Rockin' in the Earth Days of Confusion

Bought by KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), WOUB, Harford Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Voicemail Valentine
From: Radio Diaries
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
DC 1830
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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I Can't Get Next To The Big Bird

Bought by KRZA, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Anybody but Ranalli?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21
DC 1822
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Hermit's choice

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSRQ, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
DC 1815
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Another one without a playlist

Bought by KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
DC 1726
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Amazing Journey

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
DC 1721
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Plus....Tubular Bells!

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
DC 1719
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Where angels don't bother to tread.

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
DC 1703
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Ascendance

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape (Gravy Ep. 50)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 26:01
  • Purchases: 1
Maureen Corrigan, author of "So We Read On"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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NPR's Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan discusses her book about the enduring appeal of "The Great Gatsby"

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:50