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This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song. The program includes three individual sets, and includ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 00:50:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: We listen to the billow of candidate debates but a better format for finding The truly Presidential might be The Meeting., Credit: Susan Cook
We listen to the billow of candidate debates to answer bigger questions: who among them truly has the character and qualities to be President of t...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:33
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood
In this hour-long special from WQXR and WNYC, host Terrance McKnight interweaves musical examples with Dr. King's own speeches and sermons to illus...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:58:00
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:16
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:24
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:53
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:44
Caption: The Witches of Lublin
This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:09:55
Caption: Mary Casanova
Part of the "American Girl" series which presents characters of young contemporary girls dealing with contemporary issues.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:19:02
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Meredith Monk reflects on her 45 year career as a performance artist. [41:35]

  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:41:35
Caption: Coretta Scott King, Credit: NNDB
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...

Bought by KAZU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:56:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

Bought by KUOW and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dave Cloud's "Dolphin"
Battery operated cars. No longer the exclusive domain of little kids huddled around a remote control, electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Maryknoll Father Mike Bassano
Missioner Fr. Mike Bassano's journey

  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:28:00
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In a global culture dominated by the impatience of youth, counted in nanoseconds and fueled by “just-in-time” supply chains, everything needs to be...

Bought by KUMD and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:55
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pulitzer Prize- winning Author Isabel Wilkserson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: In The Court Of The Crimson King, Credit: Barry Godber
St. Elijah Stephen, and the eleven Crimson Kings.

Bought by KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KHNS, WXXI and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Turn On The Music Machine, Credit: (debut album)
A Music Machine in every set.

Bought by KKRN, KPVL, WXXI, and KEOS


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: James O'Dea
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore an online training opportunity called Becoming a Peace Ambassador. James O’Dea, the facilitator o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s clear that the economic collapse of 2008 – the second “September shock” after 2001 – will have a more enduring impact than most of us once sup...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUMD, and WXXI


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:55:02
  • Purchases: 3
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An assuring hour of music and information about the promising resurgence of spring, including rare facts about the featured music and the reasons f...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KUNR


  • Added: Jan 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:58:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:00
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A roundup of the year in movie music on the next edition of The Score.

Bought by KREV-LP and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 2