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“Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene).” So begins Shakespeare’s well-loved tragedy Romeo and Juliet. On H...
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 26, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
The understanding of how we humans experienc...
- Added: Dec 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
It’s almost impossible to look back on family road trips without thinking of Cracker Barrel.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 3
It’s almost impossible to look back on family road trips without thinking of Cracker Barrel.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KHEN-LP
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 4
It’s almost impossible to look back on family road trips without thinking of Cracker Barrel.
Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, and WUGA (part of GPB)
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 5
A look at the historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert and its 1939 follow up, featuring performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka Nica or “The Jazz Baroness,” was a friend to Thelonious Monk and other jazz artists and inspired a slew of musical ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 07:02
Swinging round the yule log with music from Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, violinist Eddie South, pianist Charles Brown, singer June Christy, and ot...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
The understanding of how we humans experienc...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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
After leaving John Coltrane’s group at the end of 1965, pianist McCoy Tyner made an ambitious run of albums for the Blue Note label in the late 196...
- Added: Dec 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
With Beyonce and Taylor Swift setting records with their two new concert films, we decided to offer up some other concert films for you to enjoy th...
Bought by KHNS, The Bear 91.3, KUCA-FM, KWIT, KSRQ, KECG and more
- Added: Dec 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
On Afterglow’s annual winter holiday show, we’ll explore some less familiar holiday gems from classic singers, including “Santa Claus Got Stuck In ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to author J. Lawrence Graham...who's brought his own military experien...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Originally Broadcast: September 6, 2006
Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
Since I was young, I have been intrigued by the work of Upton Sinclair. I...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
NL 23-49: Birth of the Cool, Birth of the School: Indiana and the Rise of Jazz Education, 11/27/2023
From: WFIUSeries: Night Lights
An exploration of Indiana jazz artists in the 1950s cool and West Coast jazz scene, and a look at the pioneering role of David Baker and Jamey Aebe...
- Added: Nov 20, 2023
- Length: 59:01
The life and thought of the "first English feminist."
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 20, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Hamas didn't parachute into Gaza from another planet. The Islamic Resistance Movement, its leaders and militants are an organic part of a packed po...
- Added: Nov 19, 2023
- Length: 58:39
How two Indiana songwriters and two singing groups influenced the direction of American popular music.
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 59:02
The life and thought of the "first English feminist"
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Recorded in 2005, teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel all speak their truths. The group had gathered at an annual meet up at a Peace C...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
