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NL 17-48: Returning the Call: More Jazz From the Unsung Heroes of Chicago Hardbop, 11/20/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program featuring jazz recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s by lesser-known Chicago jazz artists such as the MJT + 3, John Young, Paul ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
Florida: Liquid Landscape
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michele Currie Navakas
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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Remembering the dead through food - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways - Decolonizing your diet

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WKMS, WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 6
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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Remembering the dead through food - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways - Decolonizing your diet

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WKMS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 13
Ghost Suppers & Native Food Ways
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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The season of the Ghost Supper - Teaching traditional food gathering techniques - Recording Native American food ways

Bought by WGZS, WFIU, KHNS, KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Encounters at the Heart of the World (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
Encounters at the Heart of the World (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Native American Heritage Month specials
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In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
We've Got To Get Out Of This Place (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Vietnam Special)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark & Deborah Parker
When someone spends their time flattering their boss or superior, they’re known as a sycophant. It’s also called the “slime effect.” Although it wa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, KRZA, WLPR , KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
History, Slavery & the Obligation to Remember
From: Daniel Horowitz Garcia
Series: Change Over Time
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Anyone can do history. And anyone who does has an obligation to do it well. This episode is about how in the US we do our best to avoid the history...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 25:35
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCNY, KVCR, KVSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 19
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to Vietnam

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Soundtrack to Vietnam (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
"Eleanor and Hitch: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady" w/ author Susan Quinn
From: Out of Bounds
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Lively and informative discussion w/Author Susan Quinn as we focus on her bestseller "Eleanor and Hitch: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady"

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sargent's Women (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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During the Gilded Age, to be painted by John Singer Sargent was the thing to do. He captured high society in all its glitz and glam. But the storie...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
Bicycle Fever at the Turn of the Century (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How bicycles captivated America - A conversation with an animator behind The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants - The story of the disappearing lak...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Bicycle Fever at the Turn of the Century (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How bicycles captivated America - A conversation with an animator behind The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants - The story of the disappearing lak...

Bought by WCNY, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WCWP and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
NL 17-29: Jazz In The French New Wave Cinema, 7/10/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The collaboration of American jazz artists such as Miles Davis and Art Blakey with French filmmakers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Film schola...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Stamped offers a deeply researched, provocative narrative that is a comprehensive history of anti-Black racist ideas—their origins, and how they be...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cents & Sensibility (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Cents & Sensibility (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Cents & Sensibility (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to study irrational economics

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WCQS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8

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