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In a rare interview, the singer and musician Peter Gabriel talks to former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles about Real World Gold - a major new re-releas...
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 54:00
From 1775 to 2001, a look at 7 American wars through the eyes and mindsets of its eighteen-year-olds. Written and narrated by Tom McBride and Ron N...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 14:22
- Purchases: 1
About 10-percent of kids in school – approximately 9 to 13 million students – struggle with mental health problems. Whether they’re running out of ...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 17:25
New Orleans, Chicago and New York were the primary hubs for jazz by the mid 1920s. The influences from each location enriched the result. Musicians...
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Associate Professor of Education Meira Levinson realized that her students’ were gong to h...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 27:51
No one questions the fact that Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was, in all likelihood, the first arranger of jazz. It’s also true that Jelly Roll was...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 58:58
I interviewed John Caparella, President of the award winning Venetian and Palazzo Resorts and the Sands Expo and Convention center in Las Vegas. Jo...
- Added: May 03, 2012
- Length: 56:41
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
From Wendell Potter’s Blog: “Since I walked away as head of communications at a top health insurance company in May of 2008, I've worked tirelessly...
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 28:50
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
On this episode of "Don't Cha Know" two students from the Winona State University International Club stop by to tell us about the 27th Annual Inter...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 14:22
Founder of Midwest Music Fest Sam Brown, and Co-Organizer Alex Stevens stop by to tell us about this years festival! Learn about the line-up, how y...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 24:01
Carole King's iconic career as a singer, songwriter, and pianist extraordinaire is celebrated with a two-part two-hour special.
Bought by KGLT, Prairie Public, WUMB, WUGA, Wyoming Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 16
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 28:40
A Twist of Soul , Funk and Civil Rights is the story of Edition 6 of The Steve Edwards Soul Show. It is a musical tribute the the artists that laid...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 59:02
New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
Recent controversies surroundings reproductive health issues have sparked outrage among across the country. From the halls of Congress, to Richmon...
- Added: Apr 03, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 59:00
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 06:45
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
If one truly believes that all wealth derives from the heroic efforts of job creators and individual business leaders, it follows that government c...
- Added: Mar 20, 2012
- Length: 28:58
Documentary about the future Interstate 69, presenting various sides of the issue and explaining the complications that INDOT has faced in its atte...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 58:22
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting March 17th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, Deb Shadovitz, and Benny Rockwell all take on ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 54:00
