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PE 2251
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Having a Cool Yule with a hermit

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, KZUM, WFHB, KEOS and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
Blue Dimensions K51: Songs of the season. Holiday songs from Joey DeFrancesco, Warren Wolf, Shemekia Copeland, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and more
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Holiday music from the late Joey DeFrancesco, Warren Wolf, blues singers Shemekia Copeland and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and more

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KKRN, WJSU, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
OLD SCHOOL: Mistletoe Jam
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: “It felt like a kiss...”
Professor Mikey's Old School Christmas special presents a detention hall you may not remember but you will never forget!

Bought by KDUR and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Intangible Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Durga Puja as installation art, Credit: Sandip Roy
Durga Puja is Kolkata's biggest festival. But this year its art is more in focus because it's just got the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage tag.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Broadway In Love
From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound
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Some of the world's most beautiful, or poignant, or comical, or thought-provoking songs come from "love" songs composed for the musical theater.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
The Best of Making Contact
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: best of making contact
We look at our favorite shows from 2019. From Artificial Intelligence, to the stigma around women's periods, from guns and restraining orders to th...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
UnderCurrents Native Music Special
From: UnderCurrents
Series: UnderCurrents Specials
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In this music special we celebrate contemporary Native American artists with rare live recordings of Ulali and Bill Miller. Also, interviews with B...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSUT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 4
War of the Welles - the 80th Anniversary Edition
From: john rabe
Caption: Album art for 75th Anniv, Credit: Michael Uhlenkott/Unknown
80 years ago, Orson Welles really did scare the pants off the nation with his radio broadcast "War of the Worlds." This is the backstory, from docu...

Bought by KUHF, KUHF, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 49:29
  • Purchases: 3
Passover: People of the Cookbook: Jewish Cooking with Claudia Roden
From: Nahanni Rous
Series: Can We Talk?
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A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...

Bought by KWMR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 2
Flights of Fancy
From: Tom Wright
Caption: Airports, aeroplanes and airscapes, Credit: PowderPhotography
Come with Tom Wright from Australia to Great Britain over 11,000 miles and nine time zones & hear tales of flying from the Outback, Indonesia, Indi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 42:53
RDD: The Rough Draft Diaries' Thanksgiving Special with Scott Bowman of Fowl and Fodder
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this Thanksgiving Special, The Rough Draft Diaries visited Scott Bowman, of Fowl and Fodder, as he shared his recipe for Fowl and Fodder's Squas...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:04
A Baby Boomer's Christmas
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Celebrating 50 years of Phil Spector's Christmas Album and many other Baby Boomer favorites.

Bought by KSRQ, WDCB, WMNR, WEZU, KRPS and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:56
  • Purchases: 6
Halloween
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Lots of funny and scary stuff has been on the radio and in the movies.

Bought by KSRQ, KRPS, KMXT, WEZU, KALH and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:00
  • Purchases: 7
Thanksgiving Blues (Episode 1547)
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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This week brings us the semi-annual Thanksgiving edition of the program, featuring a mouth-watering selection of songs in all flavors of the Blues.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WRGY, WSLR, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Dance Show
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
Caption: The Dance Show
The '60s and '70s saw dozens of new dances and songs about dancing. How many do you remember?

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMNR, WEZU, KPIP-LP, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:55:34
  • Purchases: 5
The Nightfly #2015.03 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - January 19-25, 2015
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul (formerly The Nightfly with Sanguine Fromage)
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, Credit: National Archives
We honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk, soul, jazz...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUKY, KPIP-LP, KBRP Community Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 5
Full-Time Blues Radio's Christmas Blues 2014 (Episode 1448)
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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The annual tradition continues, with an all-new selection of Blues music for your Christmas soundtrack!

Bought by WJSU, KPVL, and WSGE


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Frybread Please - 3:00 version
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A hands-on lesson in the Native American staple: frybread.

Bought by KENW, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Smoother Jazz Christmas
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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Start this holiday with a SMOOTH JAZZ holiday. Enjoy 12 Smooth Jazz Christmas / Holiday classics on "A Smoother Jazz Christmas".

Bought by WICR, WJSU, WVAS, WICR, WJAB and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 57:38
  • Purchases: 7
Halloween Blues 2014
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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A new selection of chilling Blues tunes for your Halloween soundtrack.

Bought by KMXT, WNMU-FM, KPVL, WJSU, and WSGE


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Full-Time Blues Radio 1236 - Christmas Blues 2012
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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It's our second year with new Christmas Blues tunes!

Bought by KRPS, WVAS, KRPS, WNMU-FM, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Slovakian Easter Traditions
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Slovak Women
Jan (Yahn) Gadzo (God-zoh) left his home in Slovakia in 1969 and landed in the Iron Range town of Chisholm. Every year Jan and his family observe ...

Bought by WGZS and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 20:53
  • Purchases: 2
A Few Good Men
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Jacaranda is Spring time
Daily living in Buenos Aires is made better with the meeting of A Few Good Men

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
A Holiday Dinner in Just 10 Minutes!
From: KUOW
Caption: 10 Minute Holiday Dinner, Credit: Photo by Jess Thomson
A traditional holiday dinner can mean days of preparation and hours in the kitchen. Or, it could mean 10 minutes of prep, 20 minutes in the oven an...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 08:37
Cracking Open the Kabocha Squash
From: KUOW
Caption: Jess Thomson cracks open a kabocha squash., Credit: Megan Sukys
The kabocha squash looks like a small green pumpkin. And with its warty texture, the kabocha isn't terribly inviting to the uninitiated. But food w...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 12:01
  • Purchases: 1