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Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WUIS
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 1
From: Latitude News
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 14:32
- Purchases: 1
Classical music from mid-20th century Mexico and late 19th-century Spain by Miguel Bernal and Isaac Albéniz, who both died in their 40's.
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:30
A sound picture of nature's restful season of change and anticipation, along with its accompanying human happenings, all framed by music as varied ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 59:35
- Purchases: 2
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
Isaac Albéniz was one of the most outstanding personalities in Spain's musical history. On this edition of "The Spanish Hour," we explore the compo...
Bought by KHSU
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 1
Let's douse the political winds and hurricanes; it's time to lighten up! Hear rare holiday ditties, wacky Christmas music classics, and quirky qui...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 54:55
- Purchases: 4
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a BusinessWeek best seller soon to be in its ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 57:43
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Kenny Endo is one of the leading artists in contemporary percussion and rhythm. He is a consummate artist, blending Japanese taiko with rhythms inf...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 52:59
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 28:58
Some of the earliest Blue Note recording sessions featured the trumpet of Sidney DeParis, clarinet of Edmund Hall, and piano of Art Hodes. They ca...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 58:52
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 47:21
Successful homeownership is a fundamental part of the American dream. Rebuilding that dream is in our national interest, and crucial to our economi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
"Libraries must have been very noisy places, with everyone clacking away at their typewriter" thought one student recently. True story. Tom and Ro...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:59
Today's text messages and yesterday's telegrams might just be pretty much the same thing, only very different. Confused? So are Tom and Ron!
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:49
Have astronauts - once futuristic heroes - become a ho-hum thing of the past? Have they always existed in some form? Ron and Tom share their thoug...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 01:47
The rediscovery of recordings lost for 40 years in West Texas rewrites a chapter in American music history. In this hour long radio special "The L...
Bought by CBC Inside the Music, KGLT, and WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 55:51
- Purchases: 3
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 58:53
A new book, Road to Valor, by Aili and Andres McConnon is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 28:51
