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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” We’ll catch an early music fright listening to scary sounds for Halloween…but...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Oh Haec: This is the day the Lord has made
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Strange Enchantment: Jazz for Halloween
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Music for the holiday from Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kay Starr, and others. We'll also hear comedian Lenny Bruce's impersonation of Drac...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Songs That Won The War (Memorial Day Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special, we look at the songs of World W...

Bought by KSKA, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KRCB 104.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSKA and more


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Lisa Show - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Topic 1 - Conceptualizing Death to Children; Topic 2 - Oral Histories and the Military; Topic 3 - The History and Meaning of Memorial Day

Bought by KTXK and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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In this special episode marking Memorial Day, we learn about an effort to write the stories of every American service member who died in World War ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WLPR , WYPL, KRWG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 18
Weddings - recorded 6/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational panel discusses weddings

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:17
The Apple Seed - Presidents Day
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us today for a good-natured celebration of some of our early presidents. We share tales about Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. It's an hour...

Bought by KALW, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTSW 89.9, WVPE, KCNP and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 7
The Lisa Show Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special - “I Have a Dream” Speech Witness, Representation in Media, Being Anti-Racist
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Topic 1 - Witness of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech; Topic 2 - Representation in Media; Topic 3 - Being Anti-Racist

Bought by KTXK, Radio Catskill, WLPR , WCPN, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 6
Top of Mind New Years Special - 2020 Almanac, Suffragists, Fat Man’s Quest
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - 2020 Was Something, Eh?; Topic 2 - Lessons from Suffragists on How to Change the World; Topic 3 - One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a...

Bought by KSTK, WCPN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
HARM 20-52: There Were Shepherds, 12/21/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! This week on Harmonia, we’re going outside-- not into the snow, but ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Thanksgiving Special 2020-Constant Wonder
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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2020 marks 400 long years since the Pilgrims first put ashore from the Mayflower in Plymouth, MA. In this episode, Constant Wonder speaks with two ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRBD, Allegheny Mountain Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Story: Veterans Day Special (narrated by Alec Baldwin)
From: Stephanie Postles
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This immersive Veterans Day one hour special is narrated by Alec Baldwin and uncovers the backstories of six veterans who have built companies, pro...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, KTOO, KCPW Salt Lake City, Raven Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 38
Labor Day
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Labor Day is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on some of the memories we have from working hard, being with family, or learning somethi...

Bought by WHFR, WYPL, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 7
International Nurses Day
From: Levingston Lewis
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Ears Adrift speaks with Navy Nurses that are deployed on the USNS Comfort .

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 09:10
NL 19-51: A Cool Christmas, 12/16/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the holiday season with from Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, June Christy, and more.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
Christmas Carols, Chant and Legend
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
Caption: A Saint Nicholas miracle legend: The dowry for the three virgins, depicted by Gentile da Fabriano, (c. 1425, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome)., Credit: (Wikipedia)
An hour-long program of early music, celebrating Christmas from a variety of traditions, including the original tunes of two well-known carols, me...

Bought by WUAL, KTTZ, Tri States Public Radio, KWIT, KTTZ and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
Holiday Special: "There Were Shepherds"
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! On this holiday edition of Harmonia, we’re going outside – not into ...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Holiday special: Noel, Noel!
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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This hour, Harmonia explores the word "Noel" through music from the middle ages to the early baroque. Celebrate the season with this special, eclec...

Bought by KTTZ, KRPS, KRPS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WUFT and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
In Italia: A Renaissance Christmas from Venice, Naples, Milan and Beyond
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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We’re celebrating the holiday season with Nativity music from the late Renaissance to the early 17th century in Europe, performed by the musicians ...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, Maine Public Radio, KWIT, WNIJ, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Easter Connection
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: Connections
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The Easter season, and the music it inspires, combine tragedy and triumph, sorrow and celebration—joining with the coming of spring as a symbol of ...

Bought by KUAT, KCUR, WVTF, WVIA, KALW and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Vaughan Williams Christmas Connection
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: Connections
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The son of a clergyman, he became an atheist in college, then settled for a life as a “cheerful agnostic.” And yet, he probably wrote more Christma...

Bought by WVIA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and WUAL


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Christmas Connection 2
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: Connections
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December is filled to bursting with carols and other vocal works—and as a result a great deal of instrumental and orchestral music is often overloo...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WUAL, and KRPS


  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Christmas Radio Show Paul Sannerud Interview
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we talk to Paul Sannerud, writer and director of Theatre du Mississippi’s 6th Annual Christmas Radio Show at the Black...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 22:10
Holidays
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: John Clare and George Crumb, Credit: John Clare
We'll hear masterpieces for the holidays by George Crumb, Krzysztof Penderecki, Christopher Rouse, Samuel Barber, and Rick Sowash on this episode o...

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, WETS, and WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5