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Episode 316: Austin Wintory and A Journey Symphony
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: For the 10th anniversary of the game Journey, Austin Wintory re-orchestrated the Grammy-nominated soundtrack that launched his career.
Composer Austin Wintory tells us about how his collaborations with musicians represent the heart of his music.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Vermont Public, WGTE Public Media, WNYE, KUCO and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
04-15: Good Chemistry: Survival of the Most Compatible, 11/2/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: John Warner
Nontoxic hair color from the recipes of beetles, and a potential Alzheimer’s cure derived from applying nature’s operating instructions. The world-...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Innovate! NASA’s leading-edge fellows share their amazing projects
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of an advanced, spaceship., Credit: NASA/MSFC
Join us at the 2022 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium for a taste of projects that just might change the world.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KCNP, WMUU-LP, KWMR and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 315: Austin Wintory and the Music of Journey
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Austin Wintory's 2012 original score for Journey launched the young composer's career to new heights.
We talk with composer Austin Wintory, the first composer to write a Grammy-nominated videogame score.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Vermont Public, WBAA, WGTE Public Media, WNYE and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory on its termination
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: With its giant infrared telescope open to the sky, SOFIA flies toward another night of observation, Credit: NASA/DLR
Director of SOFIA Science Mission Operations Margaret Meixner joins us to lament the end of the giant flying observatory and to celebrate its treme...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, WJCU, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 314: Massively Multiplayer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Over 140 million people worldwide have played World of Warcraft.
We’ll explore some of the sweeping scores that accompany these epic worlds, from World of Warcraft to Final Fantasy XIV to Guild Wars and more.

Bought by Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, WNYE, KECG and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Bull’s-eye! DART impacts Dimorphos
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Asteroid Dimorphos imaged by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft seconds before the probe impacted., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Listen as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft closes in on asteroid Dimorphos, followed by a triumphant conversation with DART Coordina...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Episode 313: Arnie Roth
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Arnie Roth conducts the Distant Worlds Philharmonic in a concert of music from Final Fantasy along with video projections of game footage.
We talk with the Grammy-winning conductor and share some of his groundbreaking recordings.

Bought by KMXT, Vermont Public, WKAR, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The DART spacecraft races toward its impact on asteroid Dimorphos in this artist's concept., Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
The DART spacecraft’s impact on asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is set for Sept. 26. We’ll get a preview of this historic smackdown from the mission’s c...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KCNP and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Constant Wonder - Fabric: History Hidden in Plain Sight
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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The history of fabric is the history of life and death on this planet.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
A Space Coast Conversation with European Space Agency Leader Josef Aschbacher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An Artemis astronaut collects a promising rock on the Moon., Credit: NASA
Host Mat Kaplan spends a few minutes talking with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, at the first attempt to launch A...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Countdown to Artemis, The Return to the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Sun rises on the morning of August 29, 2022 at the Kennedy Space Center as the countdown continues toward launch of Artemis 1., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues in Florida for the first attempt to launch the Space Launch System rocket on a mission to the Moon.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
Science unscripted 08/30/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: End of August

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Constant Wonder - How Can You Reforest the Desert Without Planting a Single Tree?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In some semi-arid regions of Africa, there is a forest underground, just waiting to sprout.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
The Voyager Mission: A 45th Anniversary Celebration
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: On board each Voyager spacecraft is a time capsule: a 12-inch, gold-plated copper disk carrying spoken greetings in 55 languages from Earth’s peoples, along with 115 images and myriad sounds representing our home planet., Credit: NASA/JPL
It’s a party for Voyager and the team of scientists, engineers and others who have followed it across our solar system. Then we’ll visit with Ann D...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Science unscripted 08/23/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: With Artemis about to launch, we need to ask ourselves an important question: What do we actually want for our moon?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 08/25/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: we hear about how different groups around the world are fighting back: Mexican women helping American women with their unwa...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Waymap CEO Tom Pey
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tom Pey
Have you ever watched in amazement as a visually impaired person nimbly maneuvers their way through a crowded subway station? Well, some thoughtful...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Pieces of Mars: How We’ll Get Them to Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover., Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-CalTech
Getting precious Mars rocks into Earthbound labs is an unprecedented challenge. We’ll hear how a lander, a rocket, a big solar-powered transfer veh...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, WMUU-LP, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
A Venus Phosphine Scoop! The Return of Jane Greaves
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This false color radar image allows us to see through Venus' thick clouds to the broiling surface below., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
Delightful astronomer Jane Greaves is back with the latest evidence for phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KMUN, KCNP, WJCU and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Comets Stink! The Chemical Zoo Found at Comet Chury
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosetta and the Philae lander approach comet Chury., Credit: ESA
Scientists have found a menagerie of complex organic compounds on the comet visited by the Rosetta spacecraft that connect it with the birth of our...

Bought by KIYU-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFHB, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Curiosity rover captured the images used to create this mosaic of Martian clouds over Mont Mercou on 19 March 2021., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Scientists need your help identifying clouds high above the surface of the red planet. The goal is figuring out where Mars’ water went.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Science unscripted DW 07/26/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: There's some pretty stunning news (some of it bad) about the drugs aimed at treating depression or obesity. Also, is it act...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
New Jet Propulsion Lab Director Laurie Leshin
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Laurie Leshin formally assumes her roles as director of NASA JPL and vice president of Caltech in May., Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laurie Leshin has just become the tenth director of JPL and the first woman to run the fabled center for space science and robotic exploration.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWIT, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Former NASA chief scientist Jim Green looks back
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Former NASA chief scientist Jim Green, Credit: NASA
The former director of NASA’s Planetary Science division, Jim Green, retired as the agency’s chief scientist in January. This episode opens with a ...

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11

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