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Incidentally
From: KCME
Series: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
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The lost art of incidental music. Selections by Gerald Finzi, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Carl Nielsen and others.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:13
  • Purchases: 1
Light Winds
From: KCME
Series: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
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Music for oboe by Malcolm Arnold, Bohuslav Martinu, Kenneth Fuchs, Gerald Finzi and others.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:14
20 Years of PEACE TALKS RADIO
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Show Host Suzanne Kryder
A special broadcast marking 20 years of the PEACE TALKS RADIO series and podcast on peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution. On this anniv...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Program 182
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Swashbuckling music by Kevin McKee, an Essay by Samuel Barber, a viola sonata movement by Arthur Foote, some camera studies by Sousa and others.

Bought by KVNO, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:16
  • Purchases: 4
Program 181
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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George Bristow reflects on a 20 year nap, Aaron Copland takes us to a Rodeo, George Gershwin shows us how to play his piano preludes and more.

Bought by KVNO, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:17
  • Purchases: 4
In the Ballpark (#1608)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Novelist Charles Dickens and the musician Prince were very different types of artists, but they also had a lot in common. A new book chronicling th...

Bought by Raven Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WYAP, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Marcia Ratliff of Engage Winona
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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This Thursday on Culture Clique KQAL’s Jiovani Bermudez visits with Marcia Ratliff, the Executive Director of Engage Winona. Engage Winona is a loc...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 22:01
You Talk Like a Sausage (#1592)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Do you refer to your dog or cat as "somebody"? As in: When you love somebody that much, you don't mind if they slobber. In other words, is your pet...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, WEKU and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
I Meant That Literately
From: KCME
Series: Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs
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Music inspired by great works of literature by Percy Shelley, Herman Melville, the Arabian Knights and others with music by Samuel Barber, Josef Bo...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 57:50
A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" celebrates the coming Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day with songs and remarks extolling equal rights and affirming a fundamental a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The EXTENDED Untold Story of the Martin Luther King Community Celebration of 2023
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Debra Leigh, Sarah Drake, Janet Re...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 41:36
Old College Try (#1607)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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In just seconds, online text generators and chatbots can produce whole paragraphs of sophisticated prose. But what do advances in artificial intell...

Bought by WFAE, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KUAT, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WEKU and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 19
2023 Anniversaries Part 2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This is the second of a pair of shows where we look at what musical event anniversaries 2023 will bring. It's a good many.

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, KTRL and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 25
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Episodes from two of Wyoming Public Media’s Award-winning podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 24
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about resilience.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 6: Nationalization
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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In 1864, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo making the American Southwest a United States territory where the land would soon be crisscrossed with tra...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: Colonization
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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Within two decades, the Spanish settlers returned to the Rio Grande Valley, laying claim to the fertile valleys to build haciendas, churches and to...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 19:43
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 4: Pueblo Revolt
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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The new neighbors had so many demands and harsh punishments, the pueblo peoples had enough and organized a revolt, sending the priests and other Eu...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 19:47
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3: Strangers Arrive
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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In July of 1540, the Ashiwi people watched as a group of armed strangers – who turned out to be Europeans – came into the desert Southwest, on hors...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: Settling Down
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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For over 10,000 years, communities grew in the desert, with elaborate roads and structures that remain today. The complexity of Chaco Canyon’s arch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 19:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: Footprints
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids
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We begin 23,000 years ago at what is today called White Sands National Park with footprints discovered in the sands that tell a story of a mom, her...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 20:24
  • Purchases: 2
Pushing the Envelope (#1591)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Sure, there's winter, spring, summer, and fall. But the seasons in between have even more poetic names. In Alaska, greenup describes a sudden, dram...

Bought by KUAT, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WYAP, WNIN, WSLR and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
2023 Anniversaries Part 1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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To start each year, Rock School goes back every ten years to find out what this new year will be the anniversary for. We have a nice long list goi...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2022)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Primary Colors (#1590)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Centuries ago, monks who took a vow of silence still had to communicate about routine matters, from gardening to equipment repair. So they develope...

Bought by KUAT, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTXK, KREV-LP, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18

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