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Losing Our Religion, 9/11 Truth, and the Political Jesus
From: John Shuck
Series: Beloved Community
Caption: Celene Lillie, Leslea Mair, David Chandler, Arthur Dewey
The Political Jesus, Atheist Preachers, and 9/11.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 57:01
DC 1745
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Diving even deeper

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
#798- Artifacts or Idiots
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Should we deface or remove artifacts based on political or religious beliefs of the day? Destroy statues or remnants of societies how may not belie...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
215: Even Stranger Things / 216: Story Worlds, 10/28/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
170923 Band Box Records of Denver Colorado
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:56:19
170819 Economic History of New Orleans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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An economic history of New Orleans doesn't involve military statues or big men to build a mythological story and capture the romantic's view of her...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:45:50
What We Talk about When We Talk about Two Bears High-Fiving
From: The Organist
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Hermann Rorschach’s inkblot test has become ubiquitous in pop-culture as shorthand for both psychiatry and the subconscious. The first biography of...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Jamaican Versus American Musics - Who Influenced Who?
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 43:39
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
4. Totally High Holy Rainbow-Coloured Spirit Hawk of Awakened Manifestation (Part III)
From: tenali hrenak
Series: Muddy Boots (2017)
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Welcome home!!! Join Warrior Blue Tarp Tenali for a Part III mashup of 16+ years of field recordings he's made at rainbow gatherings around the wor...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:52:11
Gandhi the human
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
PE 1709
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Castles, Girls, Downs & Ups, A whole lot of '67, and.....Creepers.

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
PE 1651
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Having a Cool Yule with a hermit.

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1557 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/01/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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In our continuing tribute to the mighty Mose, an anatomical description definitely causes us to reflect a la Monk mood, Coltrane’s tenor giving tha...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
DC 1644
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Half and half.

Bought by WOUB and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 12: Home On The Waves With A Seafaring Cowboy
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded a ship bound for Europe…along with 800 cows.

Bought by KRZA and KUER


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 2
160924 Obscure New Orleans Musicians
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
Bigfoot Bluegrass Festival in Remer, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: bigfoot warning in forest, Credit: bigfootevidence.blogspot.com
Bigfoot is the subject of many tales and lore around the community of Remer, MN. This weekend kicks off their first annual Bigfoot Bluegrass festi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:16
  • Purchases: 1
160827 Interactive Radio - The Bell-Ringing Karaoki Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Interactive media means bringing in the least and most uncommon denominators so to do interactive radio, it's gotta be really simple. Especially S...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
Changing Traditions ... is a Tradition. The Middle Edges #106
From: Teosson Wells
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Marriage is historically ... and hysterically ... a nontraditional tradition.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:10
Emily Dickinson: Hiding in Her Own House
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Emily Dickinson about her life and times. She speaks to us from the person of actress Wendy Norris.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
160716 Music and Musicians You've Only Heard Through Others
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Ancient Romans created this statuary to memorialize the two finger, five beer joke they loved so much., Credit: Pompeii Statue Photographers, Inc.
The non-commercial music that influenced popular music and rock and roll. Ah, that's the same as every week and who really cares about that? T...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:14
Scotty Moore & Sun Records
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: That's All Right Mama, Credit: Elvis, Scotty & Bill
Johnny Depp as Keith Richards explains his early exposure to the Sun Records sound and his Scotty Moore stories.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:37
Candice Millard, author of "Destiny of the Republic"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Millard about her bestseller, "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President"

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 30:02
Charles Fountain, author of "The Betrayal"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Charles Fountain about his book, "The Betrayal: the 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 1

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