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Playlist: Happy New Year

Compiled By: PRX Editors

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Resolutions, reflections, and more.

Welcome in the New Year with these Editors' Picks.

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The New Year’s Eve Jam

From WFIU | Part of the Night Lights Classic Jazz series | 00:59:01

An hour-long special featuring jazz music and spoken-word performances for the coming New Year from Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, Slim Gaillard, Ken Nordine, and more.

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The Fireside Afterglow

From WFIU | Part of the Afterglow: Jazz and American Popular Song series | 00:59:00

An hour-long, laidback, seasonal program of jazz and popular song, featuring music that evokes love, reflection, and peace and the warm moods of winter--a sort of secular musical Yule-log offering. Perfect for any time in December, and especially for the week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

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Forgive and Forget

From Philosophy Talk | 00:53:59

Is forgiveness a moral duty?

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What Are You Doing This New Year's Eve?

From WFIU | Part of the Afterglow: Jazz and American Popular Song series | 00:58:59

An hour-long festive and varied music mix good for the days or evenings leading up to New Year’s Day, and for New Year’s Day itself, with some songs that directly refer to the holiday and others that fit into its spirit. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and Helen Merrill are some of the featured performers. Songs include some familiar staples and some lesser-known New Year’s holiday recordings, as well as a set commemorating songwriter and New Year’s Eve baby Jule Styne (born Dec. 31, 1905). A diverse, laid-back and mood-nuanced popular-song celebration of the New Year holiday.

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Radiolab, Show 104: Time

From WNYC | Part of the Radiolab series | 00:58:58

An exploration of the physics, history and music of time.

Juke In The Back #033 - Christmas Leftovers & New Year's Resolutions

From Matt The Cat | Part of the Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat series | 00:59:02

Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Back” R&B Christmas Special.

Professor Mikey's New Year's Revolution

From Mike Flanagan | 00:59:58

The perfect New Year's mixtape, complete with rarities, standards, surprises, blatant nostalgia, sincere resolutions, unashamed hope, and serious parties! From the Great Depression to the Great Recession, New Year's music from all genres for all tastes.

New Years: A Reflection

From Western Folklife Center Media | 00:56:59

A meditation on New Year's as a time of reflection and healing.

Radiolab, Show 102: Stress

From WNYC | Part of the Radiolab series | 00:58:54

The modern epidemic of stress, as seen from inside the body and out.


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All In Time

From Sarah Boothroyd | 00:25:01

Guided by science and science fiction, All In Time traverses the timeless mystery of time itself. This work won a Gold World Medal for Best Sound at the New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards.

Fast Food: What and Why

From Barry Vogel | 00:29:00

Fast food: What it is, how it is sold, and what it does to us.

Toxic Living

From Voices of Our World | 00:28:00

Deirdre Imus explains the connection between household chemical cleaning agents and pediatric cancers.

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Distillations Episode 137: Cocktail Chemistry

From Chemical Heritage Foundation | Part of the Distillations - The Chemistry Podcast series | 00:13:20

Cheers! On today's episode of Distillations we belly up to the bar to learn about distilled spirits. Then we look ahead to the next morning to determine if our tried-and-true hangover cures have any scientific merit.

Clever Apes: First memories

From WBEZ | Part of the WBEZ's Clever Apes series | 00:08:22

Our childhood memories may not always be reliable, but they have a lot to teach us about how we think, learn, and build an identity. In this episode, Gabriel Spitzer explores what science has to say about our first memories.

Finding My Place

From Judah Bruce Leblang | 00:22:00

A memoir piece about overcoming depression and finding hope.


Cutaways (5:00-8:59)

Stress Test

From Hans Anderson | 00:07:20

I took a stress test that seemed to include testing my stress level on getting to the stress test.

Time in Film

From Jonathan Mitchell | 00:06:45

Three film critics dissect how directors have twisted time.


Drop-Ins (2:00-4:59)

My New Year's Eve LAN Party

From Blunt Youth Radio Project | 00:03:11

Delve deep into the world of teen geeks gone wild on energy drinks and networked gaming.

Program 17: A New Year's Recitation

From Vermont Folklife Center Media | Part of the Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family series | 00:04:56

By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.

Praying for Peace in The New Year

From Paul McDonald | 00:02:27

What might really happen if every warrior on the planet beat his sword into a plowshare?

Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood pressure?

From Jackson Braider | Part of the Ask the Librarian series | 00:04:23

Does green tea help with high blood pressure?

Breaking Up Christmas

From With Good Reason | Part of the Folklife FieldNotes series | 00:03:30

When Christmas is over, the fun is just getting started for many in Southern Appalachia.

Seasonal Affective Disorder

From Paul McDonald | 00:02:12

What if this is as good as it gets?


Interstitials (Under 2:00)

Is Your Desk Trying to Kill You?

From Merle Kessler | 00:01:46

A new study reveals that a messy desk can make you sick. Ian examines his own desk/health ratio, and reaches some conclusions.


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