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HARM 24-23: Eponymous Tunes, 6/3/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, we're collecting music named after specific people. These eponymous tunes have namesakes ranging from tragic to notorious a...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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 WFHB, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
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
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #367
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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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 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #366
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #365
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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Guest host Gardner Campbell sits in for Paul Ingles on this show's mix of tunes--- still deep tracks and "artful seques" . And virtually NO REPEATS...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 6 - The Center of the Gardens
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:08:45
Episode 5 - Inheriting the Shoebox
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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As her health begins to wain, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing,...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:14:51
Episode 4 - Mothering the Movement
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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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...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:03:18
Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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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...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
2024-05-12 Mary Wollstonecraft
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How does inequality distort our personalities and relationships?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Four Symphonic Secrets Revealed
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
NL 24-20: A Winning Season of Jazz: Columbia Records in the Late 1970s, 5/13/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:04
MN Reads: "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" by Georgia Finnegan
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:08
2420: Mary Wollstonecraft, 5/14/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How does inequality distort our personalities and relationships?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
TRAVELING ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL with author Ann Powers (2 of 2) - Music Archive Showcase #170
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Ann Powers, Author of TRAVELING ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL
DESCRIPTION: Part 2 of a 2-part deep dive into the creative and personal path of revered musician Joni Mitchell with NPR Music Critic Ann Powers, a...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KSJE, WJCT, WRVO Public Media, KVMR and more


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
TRAVELING ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL with author Ann Powers (1 of 2) - Music Archive Showcase #169
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Ann Powers, Author of TRAVELING ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL
DESCRIPTION: Part 1 of a 2 part deep dive into the creative and personal path of revered musician Joni Mitchell with NPR Music Critic Ann Powers...

Bought by North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, KVMR, KUHF and more


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
NL 24-19: Freddie Hubbard: The CTI Years, 5/6/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.

  • Added: May 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
HARM 24-20: Listening to Art: Street Scenes, 5/13/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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This week on Harmonia, we’re continuing our Listening to Art mini-series with the sounds of 16th and 17th century public spaces: patrolling the cit...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Now is the Month of Maying
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Now is the month of Maying, and English madrigalists weren’t the only ones singing about it! This week on Harmonia, we’ve got music for that marvel...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
10,000 GOOD SONGS - #360 ("DOUBLE DOWN - SOUL LIVE EDITION")
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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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 KMXT and KSRQ


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2

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