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Preparing for Passover
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish prepares for the Passover holiday with a musical seder ceremony featuring tunes from around the globe.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Christmas Traditions Around the World: Is Santa in a pickle?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Einstein's Sonnet: Love Is Relativity
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing:American Sonnets on Bookshop.org + at Gulf Maine Books, Credit: Susan Cook
On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
Kali and Diwali
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chinna Masta Kali, Credit: Sandip Roy
While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Labor Day: Some So-called Good Guy Companies are Bad Guys for Workers
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Memorial Day - Honor the Military Dead, and Some Others Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
53rd Earth Day
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music from around the globe urging us to approach the natural world with gemilut chassadim – or loving kindne...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Honoring the Soldiers
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music honoring our troops and urging an end to the killing.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Passover Seder Sounds
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for our annual global musical seder.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Party Like It's 360 BCE!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" parties like it's 360 BCE with a global Jewish playlist celebrating the approaching Purim holiday.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2021
From: Convivial Productions
Caption: Medieval Baseball Featured in CSM #42, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
All new for 2021, come explore a glimpse of the vast repertoire of poetry, songs stories and recitations about the "Blessed Virgin Mary" and the mu...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:30
  • Purchases: 1
9/11 music specials - September 11th remembrance - 1 or 2 hours
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials
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2 one hour music specials - for broadcast on or around September 11th. / Patriot Day - Hour one features Singers/Songwriters. Hour two features Roc...

Bought by KAAD-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WORT, RadioStPete Florida, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:50
  • Purchases: 5
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
210103 The Covid Christmas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: I purchased this Corona when I first read about the Corona Virus making it to the USA. My mom was inoculated with the Covid vaccine on December 31st, 2021. I will drink this Corona after I'm inoculated.
A touch of retrospection and melancholy as we live out our pandemic. Audio postcards of the first and hopefully the last Covid Christmas. (And...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:51
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - MLK Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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We all know of Martin Luther King Jr.'s major contribution to the discourse about non-violence. Who planted the seeds of his thinking? It turns out...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, WKMS, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 6
Holocaust Memories (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Everyone remembers things differently. With Good Reason takes you to Washington D.C., Poland and Jerusalem to reveal the different ways people in ...

Bought by KECG, KWIT, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Memorial Day - Preserving Veteran Memories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We explore many aspects of memorials during this Memorial Day special. We learn about a project to collect 1,000,000 soldiers’ letters. We hear how...

Bought by WLPR , WABE, WKSU, KTXK, KWMU St. Louis and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 20
In Fifty Years
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 32:47
  • Purchases: 1
Seabees Women's History Month
From: Levingston Lewis
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Ears Adrift celebrates the Seabee birthday month and Women's History Month. Hoorah, Seabees!

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 18: Our Most Memorable Snowfall
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
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In Minnesota, freezing winters and big snowfalls come with the territory. But three feet of snow on Halloween? That was a day to remember. In this ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 33:50
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day with Lefty Lee
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today is Memorial Day. So happy Memorial Day. Many people have the day off work today and many will be spending time with friends and family. But w...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2019
  • Length: 15:53
Happy Independence Day India!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A store in India selling Independence Day memoribilia, Credit: Sandip Roy
Happy Independence Day India! Sandip Roy reflects on the changes that India has seen in the last 71 years.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Memorialize
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Music gives us a chance to express ourselves when we need help dealing with difficult emotions. It gives our minds a place to face all of the feeli...

Bought by WVIA, KTXK, Interlochen Public Radio, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
RDD: Minding the Gap - The 100th Episode
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This is the 100th episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! We'll celebrate this moment with a few different people. You may have heard documentary filma...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Gathering Place at Thanksgiving
From: Wind & Rhythm
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The hymn “We Gather Together” was written in 1597 to celebrate the Dutch victory over the Spanish in a war of national liberation against the King ...

Bought by WVIA, RadioStPete Florida, KCME, WVIA, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 14