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Voices of D-Day

From: Charlie Warren

Caption: French Coast Dead Ahead, Credit: history101.com

A powerful remembrance of the preparation, execution, and aftermath of Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KUCB, Prairie Public, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

693.I: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/28/2024 8:00 AM

From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL

6 works, including MYSLIVECEK: L'Olimpiade, overture. L'Orfeo Barockorchester/Michi Gaigg.

693.L: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/28/2024 11:00 AM

From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL

6 works, including SAINT-GEORGES: Violin Concerto in A, Op. 5, #2 (Mvt. 1 only) . Pilsen Radio Orchestra/Frantisek Preisler Jr.; Miroslav Vilimec, ...

692.E: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/27/2024 4:00 AM

From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL

6 works, including BAX: Morning song (Maytime in Sussex) (Maytime in Sussex) . London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bryden Thomson; Margaret Fingerhut, pi...

The Art of Healing: Finding Strength Through Frida Kahlo

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Outdoor mural featuring Frida Kahlo, Credit: In Confianza, with Pulso

“In Confianza, with Pulso” producer Anthony Wallace brings us the story of Thania Betancourt Alcazar. A member of “The Phoenix Fridas,” Alcazar di...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Episode 6 - The Center of the Gardens

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.

Episode 4 - Mothering the Movement

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...

Episode 3 - From the Center of the Donut

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.

Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

Sappho (630-570 bc) & Jazz

From: Michael Henrik Wynn

A public domain reading of Sappho's "Epigrams" set to public domain jazz from Pixabay.

The Coast Miwok Peoples, Colonization, and the Preservation of Indigenous History (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: A tule elk in Point Reyes in 2015., Credit: Austlee via Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed license. Image is unaltered.

On today's encore episode, dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore, an area in northern California known for rugged sweeping beaches...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WUWM, and RadioFreePalmer

Audacious Live! Show & Tell in Stamford

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

On this episode, Audacious takes the show to Third Place by Half Full Brewery in Stamford! Hear stories about special doilies, passports, and even ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

AG 24-11: June Christy’s Early Capitol LPs, 3/11/2024

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow

In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...

StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 02

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials

The second special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio in December 2023, this speci...

Bought by KMXT

Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin

In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF

War and Remembrance: Herman Wouks Magnum Opus of World War II

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...

Ernie Pyle: Capturing the Human Side of War during World War II

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

Ernie Pyle: The War Correspondent and his Impact – Exploring the life, reporting style, and enduring legacy of Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City

A Shortcut Through 2023

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more

An Interview with Author William Yeske

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

“DAMN THE VALLEY” , wriitten by Wiilliam Yeske was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valle...

Seen and Obscene

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned

The birth of obscenity laws in the 1870s provides a cautionary tale for the present moment, when far-right conservatives incorrectly label books “s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

"Surviving The Bataan Death March" (Narration by the late Senator John McCain) Special Encore Presentation

From: Ronald Duffy

Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)

For 2023-24 "Surviving The Bataan Death March" Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW) Special Encore Presentation Offered as ...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more

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