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A Big Band Fourth of July
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...

  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
World in Progress 25/01/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week - Remembering. In light of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, we hear from those who survived the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We also h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
OHR180: OHR Presents: 50 Years of the Ozark Folk Center, 10/16/2023
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: OFC - Jubilee!
A celebration of 50 years of the Ozark Folk Center State Park presented through archival audio from its 1973 grand opening as well as interviews of...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
The Day the Music Died
From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show
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The Winter Dance Party -- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:55:28
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
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kristallnacht
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish commemorates the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Symbols of Freedom
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Enamelled Figures from British India, Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXDU, WHRV, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 11
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
EP201 Reflecting Back
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A look back at the past 200 episodes of "Cruising the Blues With Mr. Jack".

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 38:58
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 30:24
Druid Stories To Ward Off St. Patrick
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In tribute to the Druids who were canceled by Saint Patrick, we will tell some stories. Ghost stories. From those ancient Celtic lands that gave us...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
FM 91 Turns 45!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's FM 91's 45th birthday! WGTE FM first broadcast aired May 2, 1976 and since then has continued to deliver the highest quality arts, entertainme...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
WRM18 - Woody Guthrie and Will
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Woody Guthrie looked up to Will Rogers, and took a lot of his early stage presence from Will's influence.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Founding member of The Infamous Stringdusters joins Unreal Bluegrass
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: Unreal Bluegrass , a little bit outside the Flat Top Box, Credit: Steve Martin
Jeremy Garrett visits Unreal Bluegrass to discuss his new solo CD Circles and and the latest from The Infamous Stringdusters, Rise Sun.Jeremy is a ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02:54
RDD: The Fight of The Past and the Future
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we celebrate the 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters, the LWV. The League is a nonpartisan political ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
David Jepsen and Conor Casey, Centralia Tragedy, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: David Jepsen & Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” with David Jepsen, educator, historian, a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day with Lefty Lee
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today is Memorial Day. So happy Memorial Day. Many people have the day off work today and many will be spending time with friends and family. But w...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2019
  • Length: 15:53
Abolitionists of Winona with Carol Jefferson
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Was Winona an abolitionist colony? Was it a major part of the underground railroad? These are questions Carol Jefferson hopes to answer. On this ep...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 15:48
The Whole World Is Watching: The Legacy of 1968
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
Frankenfest! Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: Jim Armstrong, Andrea Wood, Anne-Marie Dunbar
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 26:23