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Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music represents a string band evolution plus 1940s innovations by Bill Monroe, who led a group called the Bluegrass Boys. Bill pitched...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:52
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open with new and recent bluegrass, including a modernistic piece featuring Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Our Gem of Bluegrass feature tells a...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: African-American emigrants to the U.S.S.R., aboard the German ship Deutschland, c1930s, Credit: Yelena Khanga.
With lawmakers tackling immigration, we're devoting an episode to its flip-side -- emigration. We’ll consider the stories of those who left the U.S...

Bought by KFOK-LP, KREV-LP, WRPI, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this episode I will talk about editing photos and some of the techniques that can be used.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:25
Caption: Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams in 'To the Wonder'
Adam and Josh review the latest Terrence Malick film, "To the Wonder," starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko and Rachel McAdams. They'll then count...

Bought by WOUB, KDRP Community Radio, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 55:28
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner, San Francisco, CA 4/16/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner talk improvisation,Charlie Chaplin, and the evolution of screen size.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:13
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The musical style of old time music and bluegrass come from Appalachia. The high singing, the accompaniments that are full of notes, are all a blue...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s program opens with new bluegrass. Then we introduce a running thread on today’s show: We’re declaring Spring. This sort of pronouncement ma...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, WTIP, KKRN, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Ed Ayers speaks with historian Rebecca Edwards about how both Republicans and Democrats argued about the tariff in the terms of domesticity.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Do dancers know something the rest of us don't?

Bought by KKRN, WNJR, WRNC-LP, and KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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"A global ethic, which is absolutely necessary to meet the destructive forces that our intellectual and technological powers have given us to meet ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:55
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"There are two kinds of countries in this world, the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones I count as the countries where the governments are a...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:45
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After a controversial election, Kenya has inaugurated Uhuru Kenyatta, who has been indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, as its new pres...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:05
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Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:00

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "O, the fatal Stamp Act" (one colonial newspaper's reaction to the Stamp Act of 1765.)
Just in time for Tax Day, BackStory delves into the long and turbulent history of taxation in America.

Bought by KFOK-LP, WOUB, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Roger Ebert
Author Chris Harris ("The Big Clear") joins Adam and Josh for a trip to Chinatown and lots of other unsavory places for this week’s Filmspotting To...

Bought by WOUB and KDRP Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 55:24
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Max Theriot, San Francisco, CA 4/5/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Max Theriot talks breathing right, staying gold, and giving it his all.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass has a number of songs that reflect on working. The nature of the work has changed over the years. But even if it’s office work, it exacts...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 05:22
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with a current ‘grass selection, and then proceed to play three bluegrass songs that use the name John Deere Tractors symbolically...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Julia Ward Howe
The story of Julia Ward Howe's 1871 Proclamation for Peace and her call for a universal Mother's Day to promote peace and disarmament, plus the aut...

Bought by KHNS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KWIT, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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During this program, Craig Lancaster talks about and reads from "Edward Adrift," the sequel to his novel '600 Hours of Edward.'

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Does a life demand a narrative, or is life just one damn thing after another?

Bought by WNJR, KKRN, and KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 57:43
  • Purchases: 3