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The International Olympic Committee has never required men to prove that they are men. But from nude inspections to DNA swabs, women have had to pr...

Bought by KVSC, KHNS, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The International Olympic Committee has never required men to prove that they are men. But from nude inspections to DNA swabs, women have had to pr...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The International Olympic Committee has never required men to prove that they are men. But from nude inspections to DNA swabs, women have had to pr...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio and WRGY


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The International Olympic Committee has never required men to prove that they are men. But from nude inspections to DNA swabs, women have had to pr...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Singer Thelma Carpenter’s career extended from the swing era to The Wiz and The Cosby Show. We’ll hear her with Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Coleman ...

  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 07:00
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The Second World War had been raging for some years in Asia, when Germany invaded the Sudentenland. One of the great heroes of the struggle against...

  • Added: May 25, 2024
  • Length: 13:11
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Sociologist Diana Mincyte has been studying dairy farming in Lithuania and other post-socialist Eastern European states. She says that what happens...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, KECG and more


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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EMBARGOED UNTIL THE PASSING OF PRESIDENT CARTER. On this program, we remember Former President Jimmy Carter by hearing an exclusive interview PEAC...

Bought by KNKX, WRKF, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Do you have to be an emperor to lead a Stoic life?

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A tribute to the pianist featuring his recordings with Stan Getz, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and as a leader in the 1960s.

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Trumper Fats Navarro was one of the leading lights of the emerging 1940s bebop movement before dying at the age of 26. We’ll hear some of the most ...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Exploring the brief but profound musical relationship between trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans that resulted in the landmark album Kind...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Join us this week on Harmonia as we explore how generations of musicians adapted existing music for their instruments through the art of intabulati...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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LGBT and Ethnic Scholar and Author Lillian Faderman discusses her book My Mother’s Wars a reconstructed memoir of her mother’s life as an Jewish i...

Bought by KMUN, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Put on a sweater, because this week on Harmonia, we’re touring the Nordic countries. Often left out of the discussion when it comes to early music,...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10