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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Class of '57
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz focusing on Art Blakey and his group the Jazz Messengers, specifically around 1957.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Benny's Bop: Benny Goodman's Interlude in Bop
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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A centennial tribute to Benny Goodman that focuses on his small-group and big-band excursions into bebop in the years following the end of World Wa...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sexology -- Groks Science Show 2009-05-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Sharon Moalem discussed how sex works.

  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:52
Young Wynton: Early Marsalis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring early recordings of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, and Chico Freeman.

  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 58:57
The List: A Guide to SXSW Music 2009
From: KUT
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For one week each year, Austin, Texas becomes the center of the music universe. In this music-rich one-hour special, some of public radio's savvie...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KLCC, WXPN, and KGLT


  • Added: Mar 13, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
What Kind of Liberation? Women and Iraq
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: An Iraqi woman reads a leaflet given to her by an Iraqi policeman in Rysalah, Baghdad, Iraq., Credit: James Dale
Professor, author and activist Nadje Al-Ali talks about the reality of women's lives in Iraq for the past 50 years, before the invasion, and now.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Erica Fernandez vs. BHP Billiton Petroleum
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Camp Lovewave's 356th Show-Camp Lovewave "The Musical"
From: Terran Lovewave
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Joss Whedon waited six seasons until he did "Buffy-The Musical" and so did we. "Camp Lovewave-The Musical, Love and The Other Isn't What You Think...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 58:35
Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s & 40s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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A hour-long program of jazz music, exploring the music of African-American singing ensembles in the decades of the Great Depression and the Second ...

Bought by WEZU and WNCU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Afropop Artists Celebrate Human Rights: The UN Declaration at 60
From: Matt Payne
Series: Afropop Worldwide
Caption: Beninese Chanteuse Angelique Kidjo
This special edition of Afropop Worldwide looks at the 60th Anniversary of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the eyes (and m...

Bought by WNCU, KZYX, KRCB-FM, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Automated External Defibrillators
From: Spectrum Radio
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The trend in accessible defibrillators save more lives from cardiac arrest.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2008
  • Length: 06:10
Ken McCoy Entertainment Report
From: Ken McCoy
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New Report for 8 28 08

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:35
Digital TV Conversion
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Looming digital TV conversion date vexes those still satisfied with their analog sets.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 13:53
MySong Music Software
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Microsoft creates MySong computer software for non-musicians.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 09:49
Speedo Swimwear Technology
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Speedo's goes to the Beijing Olympics with computer designed swimsuits.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
Discoveries At Walt Disney Concert Hall: Mingus Epitaph
From: NPR Music
Series: Discoveries At Walt Disney Concert Hall
Caption: Disney Concert Hall., Credit: David McNew/Getty Images News
A full jazz orchestra performs the late Charles Mingus' personal and dynamic masterwork Epitaph, prophetically named because, as he said, he "wrote...

Bought by Moab Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, and WLNZ


  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Come On Down to Central Avenue
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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One-hour program of classic jazz exploring the sounds of the mid-20th century Los Angeles jazz scene

Bought by WPTC, WCPN, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KUT-HD, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Discoveries At Walt Disney Concert Hall: Venice Baroque Orchestra
From: NPR Music
Series: Discoveries At Walt Disney Concert Hall
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The Venice Baroque Orchestra is one of the world?s leading period instrument ensembles.

Bought by Moab Public Radio, KHNS, Interlochen Public Radio, WUAL, and WLNZ


  • Added: Jul 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Arctic Bay Internet
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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The Arctic Bay's Inuti Tribes struggle to keep their culture alive using the internet.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and KVMR


  • Added: May 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 3
Opera Live In HD
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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A visit to the backstage tech crew broadcasting the Met Opera live in Hiigh Definition around the world.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2008
  • Length: 09:46
First Lunar Landing
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Looking back on America's first lunar landing.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2008
  • Length: 08:23
Vertical Wind Turbines
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Verical wind turbine design ready to make a come back?

  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 05:19
Women's History Month: Cats Who Swing and Sing -- Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
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59-minute program of classic jazz focusing on women singer-pianists of the 1940s and 1950s. A great special for Women's History Month!

Bought by WPTC, WTIP, WJSU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2008
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 9
Sarah Vaughan: The Land Of Hi- Fi
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Theresa Orlando plays the album and highlights the liner notes of this jazz gem recorded on October 26 and 27 1955, in New York City.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 20:49
World Solar Challenge Race
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Engineers and students design solar powered racecars to compete in international event.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2008
  • Length: 05:53