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PATRIOTIC POP is a one hour special, designed as appointment listening over the Independence Day holiday. The music in this special is a tribute to...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 57:42
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
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Also skinny and running songs and a bunch of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:46:54
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Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story is a three-part radio documentary about the influence of the "Mother Road" on America's literary and artistic c...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:02
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Love is in the air for El Día de los Enamorados, otherwise known as Valentine's Day. An hour of love songs from the middle ages through the early 2...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:39
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Murial Keaveny is retired, and didn't start writing poetry until she was sixty-five years old. She's attended several writing workshops over the ye...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
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Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:50
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Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
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Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
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The Story of Christmas fills a programming need for reverent material for broadcast on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This one hour event combin...

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 57:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Christmas market in Rostock, Germany, Credit: Carston Pescht
A celebration of the music and traditions that make up the Christmas season from the plains of Africa to the hills of Appalachia and beyond.

Bought by WUAL, KRPS, KBYU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:05
  • Purchases: 4
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This one hour special runs a total of 57:30, and spotlights the "Voice of Christmas", Bing Crosby with special guests.

Bought by WVRU, KREV-LP, WNMU-FM, WUIS, WSGE and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 15
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Celebrating John Lennon's birthday with a montage of some his most memorable music, quotes and moments. Produced in several segments including an o...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 59:35
Caption: Photo by conorwithonen, Flickr
Fathers in Focus is a special collaborative show that delivers the stories of youth experiencing homelessness and their experiences with their fath...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:07
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On September 3rd our castaway was Ruby Simkoff, who since 1990 has been one of the most recognized voices on WMPG Radio in Portland, Maine. Ruby ho...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:22:44
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Human Interest: A man tries to come to terms with the fact he is no longer in the coveted 18 to 49 year old advertising demographic.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Roberta Roberts Potts and her father, Oral Roberts
Roberta Roberts Potts, the daughter of the late televangelist and university founder, Oral Roberts, recently published a book about her father call...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long program of Latin love songs and commentary, hosted by Grammy-winning soprano Sylvia McNair.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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The best of Rodgers and Hart's love songs as interpreted by some of the most famous American male and female vocalists.

Bought by WNMU-FM and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Ron Keller, Director of the Naperville Municipal Band and the Naperville Tuba Christmas, talks tubas, the holidays, and his lifelong love of music.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
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An hour's worth of the best in new and independent Blues music for Christmas!

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sakae Nakamura at age 75., Credit: Ross Chambless
A story of language and chance meetings.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
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In this segment, we bid a fond farewell to Joe Brainard, an acclaimed artist raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We'll hear a communal reading of his poem "...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 12:15