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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Runaway slaves often hid in self-made caves.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:39
Caption: Cartoon, "The Mascot", New Orleans, 27 July 1891. "Scenes and Incidents - A Lady Bicyclist Creates a Sensation on St. Charles Avenue".
Lacar Musgrove reads "A Moveable Race" about a 19th Century bicycle race on Thanksgiving Day in New Orleans.

Bought by Raven Radio, KTXK, Raven Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSFR and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 7
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Join Gloria Steinem, Jane Wyatt, Snow White, Lucille Ball, Rex Harrison, Diana Ross & the Supremes,George Burns & Gracie Allen, James Brown and a c...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:12
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On New Years Eve day of 1957, Orville Gibson, a farmer in Newbury, Vermont went out to milk his cows. He was never seen alive again. The mystery of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 30:27
  • Purchases: 1
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NEA Lit Fellow and author Margot Livesey discusses The Flight of Gemma Hardy---her reimagining of Jane Eyre. [32:40]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 32:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
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It's almost like two shows in one!

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


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: November 22, 1963
Extended anniversary mix of JFK in Dallas 1963, featuring remastered "Shortcut Back to Dallas"

  • Added: Nov 21, 2013
  • Length: 57:58
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Free, audio book excerpt. “An art book is a museum without walls” — André Malraux. Look deeply into the shadows … Rodin wanted you to see his art ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 09:18
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Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Permanence—the state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely—might appear to be an outmoded, unrealistic concept.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:16
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30x30

Bought by KWMR, WMMT, KKRN, KMXT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Church of the Ascension Choir, Credit: Design by Nathan Lambshead
One of the most significant forms of fine art that represents the very best of what Western Civilization has to offer is on the wane. Gregorian ch...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:39
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to the 1970s. A time when musicians r...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:54:29
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lynn Freed, author of the fictional journal chronicling a woman's life in South Africa titled “The Mirror.”

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Martha Lillard, 65, uses her iron lung to breathe at night., Credit: Julia Scott
Sixty years after polio was eradicated in America, a dozen survivors still rely on their iron lungs to breathe. Come inside the machine Martha Lill...

Bought by KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KOSU, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 14
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Review and recipe of the THE perfect mint julep

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Mark Anthony (right)
Bobby speaks with Mark Anthony, the "psychic lawyer" or "psychic attorney" of which he owns both trademarks. His best selling book, “Never Letting ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:11:36
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:25
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Music from before David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Vanilla Fudge and others found their commercial sound. Guess what? It sounded like what w...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:02:24
  • Purchases: 1