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What if the cure is worse than the disease?
From: KENW
Series: Dumb Ideas that Changed the World
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
Wonder drugs have snuffed out some terrifying diseases. But first they must be approved by the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
What if a social movement is anti-social?
From: KENW
Series: Dumb Ideas that Changed the World
Caption: Dumb Ideas the Changed the World, Credit: Cindy Gentry and Shannon Hearn
We don’t hear the word “anarchy” much today, but a century ago it was a worldwide social movement. In 1894 Charles Rodolf wrote: “The true anarchis...

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 02:30
HARM 24-21: Intabulation, Part 1, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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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
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


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bug in Your Ear (#1537)
From: A Way with Words
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Is there something inherent in English that makes it the linguistic equivalent of the Borg, dominating and consuming other languages in its path? N...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, KECG, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lillian Faderman: The Emotional Truth of "My Mother's Wars"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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
NL 24-21: The Duke Is On The Air: Duke Ellington’s 1945 Treasury Department Shows, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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
Ep. 600 - Laura Cash - Awake But Dreaming
From: Sean Hickey
Series: If That Ain't Country
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In this week's episode we're featuring a labour of love from Laura Cash: "Awake But Dreaming" (2010). A fine collection of western swing and tradit...

Bought by KSRQ and KEOS


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
PE 2421
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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60s Rolling Stones, 21st Century Advanced Psych and lots more.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM, KHNS, Royalton Community Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 21
DC 2421
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Procol Harum Scarum (or Still There'll Be More)

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KRZA, KIYU-FM, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
899: Being body conscious / 900: Secrets of alchemy, 5/18/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Being body conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Jazz Age
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Recreating a sensation that's travelling around the country, I'm presenting George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Peter Boyer's brand new compani...

Bought by KWAX and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:26
  • Purchases: 2
Pride Anthems | Episode 24-19
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

Bought by KSJE, WRFA-LP, KFCF FM, KMSU, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Jungle Music
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cab Calloway Orchestra
No one truly knows when the term came into common use. The original intent was for it to be derogatory. Insult the band and the music by calling it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life
From: WUCF
Series: Jazz and the American Spirit
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This week on Jazz And The American Spirit, we hear the music of Lee Morgan, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Shirley Horn, J.J. Jo...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, GCR (Global Community Radio), Delmarva Public Media, Boise State Public Radio, WCNY and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
HARM 24-22: Nordic Tunes, 5/27/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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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
Drugging France (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
Drugging France (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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 KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Drugging France (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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 WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Drugging France (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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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. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Program 196
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Music inspired by Mexico by Aaron Copland, Broken Music by Kenji Bunch, We'll be serenaded by Nicolas Flagello, and experience the magic of Chaplin.

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


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 3
World Ocean Radio: Looking East From West
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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After a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
AG 24-27: An All-American Road Trip, 7/1/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week on Afterglow, we celebrate the Fourth of July with an All-American Road Trip. We’ll hear Afterglow favorites like Ella Fitzgerald and Fra...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
AG 24-26: Let's Get Away From It All!, 6/24/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We’re living life among the jet set this week on Afterglow, as we explore songs about traveling from the Great American Songbook, including “Come F...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
AG 24-25: Songs Of The Season: Summer, 6/17/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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An Afterglow tradition returns this week, as I bring you some tradition songs of the season, and play some summertime favorites sung by Frank Sinat...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00

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