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In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 46:02
Thomas Merton was one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century—and he was also a passionate jazz fan. We’ll talk with jazz mu...
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 59:02
With host Paul Ingles, veteran broadcaster Bob Costas re-visits some of his favorite interviews with music greats during his 6 years as host of NBC...
- Added: Mar 31, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
The storms continue, the wildflowers begin to appear, and Chantel (our mysterious PCT through-hiker) probably made it to the Canadian border withou...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 30, 2024
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1957 Curtis Fuller arrived in New York City at the age of 22 and preceded to record with Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, and John Coltrane, as well as ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 08:10
- Purchases: 1
With host Paul Ingles, veteran broadcaster Bob Costas re-visits some of his favorite interviews with music greats during his 6 years as host of NB...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
A centennial tribute to singer Sarah Vaughan focuses on her early recordings with Billy Eckstine’s big band and as a rising solo star with Charlie ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Brian Dunning takes a look at some haunted houses and separates the historical facts from the ghost stories.
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...
Bought by WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, WUTC and more
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 10
When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 4
When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...
Bought by KIYU-FM
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
The Endless War, a movie released in late July 2007, written, directed and produced by Charles Ferguson, depicts the blunders and ill-prepared mann...
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 29:00
What would it mean to believe in the radical equality of all things—humans, animals, trees, even rocks?
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 53:59
Roll out the red carpet—this week on Harmonia, we’re celebrating some awards, early music style! From production and audio engineering to singing a...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 59:02
If you’ve spent any time in the early European wing at your local art museum, you might have noticed just how musical religious art can be. This we...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Exploring a legendary 1950s New York City jazz club with musician David Amram, who frequented it as both a musician and a listener.
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Music specials host Paul Ingles talks with music author Peter Neff, whose 2019 biography of under-appreciated singer/songwriter Fred Neil, tells th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 27:24
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practitioner, recordin...
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007.
Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 29:00
In her new book No Meat Required, food writer Alicia Kennedy looks at vegetarian movements of the past and shares her low-tech vision for the futur...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 54:00
The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
