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Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
Acoustic Stories : Steve Downing - "Cherries"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
Acoustic Stories : Robert Jevne - "Cherries"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Robert Jevne, shares "Cherries." A piece about a young woman's artistic venture with an intriguing direction.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:26
Chet Baker
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WNJR, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
(Ball & Chain)The Musical story of Big Mama Thornton
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Willie Mae "BIG MAMMA" THORNTON was a Blues singer, musician and songwriter. She had a short life and is best known for the songs "Hound Dog" and "...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WVAS


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 2
The Writ Writer episode Five
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Ku Klux Klan 1920s
This is the fifth and concluding episode of The Writ Writer by Michael Murphy based on the true story of black attorney Scipio Africanus Jones. Onc...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It may be hard to imagine, but in the 1950's, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." This week we explore the real-life legend of Duke'...

Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNJR, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
The Writ Writer episode four
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: "The Gazette" October 3, 1919
At the end of episode three, attorney Col. Murphy collapsed during the trial for the Elaine defendants, and died a few days later. Scipio Jones is...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:54
(The Electrifying) Eddie Harris
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Eddie Harris, Credit: Atlantic Records
EDDIE HARRIS was an jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also flu...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Writ Writer episode three
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Headlines
At the end of episode two, attorney’s Jones and Murphy meet with the Elaine Defendants, and begin working on appealing the murder convictions.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:50
Before Roe v. Wade -- The Price Women Paid
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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On the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the U.S., series host Martha Burk interviews ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
Our Bodies, Ourselves - 40 years of fighting fear
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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In the 40 years since Our Bodies, Ourselves was first published by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the book has been both praised and ba...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Empty Quarter: Recordings from the Rub' Al Khali desert
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Soundwalk Collective went on a 45-day journey through this Desert of deserts, the crossroads of the Arabic civilization, recording hundreds of hour...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
National Writers Series: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jack Segal
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the National Writers Series
Somali-Dutch feminist, activist, writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali thrilled a packed audience at her National Writers Series. Speaking with dip...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
The Writ Writer episode two
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Southern Cotton Picker
Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones. At the end of episode one, black attorney Jones was faces with taking on a racially charged mu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
Jazz and the American Road
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: North or south, Highway 61 is America's "Blues Highway"
The myth and magic of the American road is one of the defining themes in American life. This week we hit the road in search of the highways and byw...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Encounter: Recordings from the Schwarzwald, Germany 2010
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Originally commissioned by Radio France Culture, this soundscape radio essay by Jean-Luc Nancy explores the 1967 meeting of Paul Celan and Martin H...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
The Media Fast
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
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Hear from three people who do a media fast to take back control of their lives from their smartphones, Internet, and Social Media.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Writ Writer episode one
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Arkansas News
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 28:48
The Art of Jazz Drumming
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The "greatest drummer in the world," Buddy Rich
Jazz drummers have gotta be some of the most unheralded of jazz's many unsung heroes. This week we dissect their art and craft with world-renowned ...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KDRP Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Distillations Episode 163: A Day in the Life - Night
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Series: Distillations - A Day in the Life: Morning, Noon, and Night
Caption: The midnight sun., Credit: Louisa Jonas
We wrap up the three-part series A Day in the Life, spotlighting the common chemistry of morning, noon, and night. Today, how popular insomnia trea...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 15:42
Nina Simone: The High Priestess of Soul!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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This is a special musical tribute to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known as the great NINA SIMONE. This special contains some of her biggest hits.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
  • Purchases: 1
Sound is...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is sound? We'll define it physically and through our experience. Interesting descriptions abound as we learn why a piano sound is different th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:39
  • Purchases: 1
Energy and Building Innovation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Richard Lester, Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center and audience members, Credit: Rikki Ward, Photographer
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are working on better ways of powering the American economy. Some are developing new solar and wind t...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio and KJZZ


  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of the Solo
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz icon Miles Davis
Jazz isn't the only form of music that has great solos, but it wouldn't be what it is without 'em. This week we take a look at the art and craft of...

Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNCU, KSFR, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12

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