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GJ Interviews PAZ
From: Generation Justice Admin
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We learn from local activist, multimedia artist, and Danzante Mexica, PAZ (Mapitzmitl)

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 47:27
Excuse the Hogs (#1596)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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When a teenager went a week without talking as part of a school project, he noticed a surprising side effect: Instead of rehearsing a response to w...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WPCA-LP, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Serial Killers
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week in 1819, a serial killer nicknamed, The Axeman, terrorized New Orleans by writing a letter to the newspaper that he loved Jazz music. If...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
By a Landslide (#1611)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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How do you transform ancient Chinese script for use in the modern age? English uses a keyboard with just 26 letters, but the first Chinese typewrit...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Women Firsts
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Back in 1981, The Go Gos album Beauty and the Beat hit number one making it the first time an all woman rock band topped the charts. To that end, ...

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


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
All That and a Bag of Chips (#1595)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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We tend to take the index of a book for granted, but centuries ago, these helpful lists were viewed with suspicion. Some even worried that indexes ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTXK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Rock Star Auditions
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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During this week, a few years back, a cattle call was made to choose the five Spice Girls. To that end, we will tell stories of some other band au...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KSRQ, KWIT, KTRL and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
771: How Should We Tell Our History? / 772: Reading While Young, 2/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Big Dog (#1610)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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If you're ever near a sundial, step closer and look for a message. Many sundials bear haunting, poetic inscriptions about the brevity of life. Plus...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WYAP, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Familiar Strangers (#1594)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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This week on "A Way with Words": If you take up texting and social media late in life, there's a lot to learn! A 20-something wants advice getting ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
20 Years of PEACE TALKS RADIO
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Co-Founder / Series Host Paul Ingles, Credit: Genevieve Russell
A special broadcast marking 20 years of the PEACE TALKS RADIO series and podcast on peacemaking and non-violent conflict resolution. On this annive...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Interview - Richard Aquila
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week, we will have a discussion with author Richard Aquila about his new book Rock & Roll in Kennedys America. A Cultural History of the Early...

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Hot Gossip (#1609)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Gossip goes by many names: the poop, the scoop, the lowdown, the dope, the scuttlebutt, the 411, the grapes, the gore, and hot tea. Plus, John Donn...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Interview - Dewar MacLeod, Tommy
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week, we speak with author Dewar MacLeod about his new book, Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture.

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


  • Added: Feb 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
James Campion - Take a Sad Song
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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A friend of the show, author James Campion is back to discuss his latest book, Take a Sad Song. It is an in depth discussion and view of The Beatl...

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


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Word Hoard (#1593)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Ever wonder what medieval England looked and sounded like? In Old English, the word hord meant "treasure" and your wordhord was the treasure of wor...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WPCA-LP, RADIOLEX, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
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

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