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6 works, including TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45. Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45. Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including HAYDN: Symphony in D, P 43. Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Harold Farberman.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:53:58
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4 works, including HAYDN: Divertimento (Allegro molto) in G, P 8 (Allegro molto) . Slovak Chamber Orchestra/Bohdan Warchal.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: A tule elk in Point Reyes in 2015., Credit: Austlee via Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed license. Image is unaltered.
On today's encore episode, dive into the history of Point Reyes National Seashore, an area in northern California known for rugged sweeping beaches...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WUWM, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The name Beverly Kenney might be a footnote in jazz history, but this singer had an intelligent, alluring and melancholic style that’s among the be...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack speaks with Anna Marie’s Alliance Executive Director C...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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The life and music of Helen Wheels. Her band performed at CBGB's in New York during the height of the punk movement in the 70s, before her untimely...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
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Next time on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, hear Annie Barrows, the co-author of the international best seller and book club favorite, THE GUERNSEY LITERA...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
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In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 47:26
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Anne’s whisper became a long silk thread, spun around a butterfly. Caterpillar all too eager to wrap it from inside its body around like a cocoon....

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 11:08
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In this timely Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us excerpts from the 2019 Women’s March in ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Darryl Cherney, the Earth First! activist who along with Judi Bari, was car bombed in Oakland, Californi...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She claimed to speak to the dead, and even produce p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
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150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slavery. In the summer of 2016, Barry Jurgensen set out on a 500-mil...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 36:27
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He was a "delicate looking" first sergeant, yet he led other soldiers at Minnesota's Fort Snelling during the U.S. Civil War. It turns out "he" was...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1