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Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WOUB, KZYX, WCMU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Sound gets funneled down your ear canal and... then what happens? You've heard about drums, tiny bones, and maybe a spiral shaped sensor, but not l...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:16
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Avery Wang helped found the app, Shazam. This app is now part of our cultural consciousness as a flagship app for all smartphones because it is so ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: St. Louis favorite son Miles Davis
In this hour, we continue our series on America's Great Jazz Cities with the forgotten history of jazz and the blues in St. Louis.

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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This show covers a variety of topics including medicine, music, an unconventional road trip and summer camp for grownups. Program Directors: please...

Bought by WRVO


  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:29:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story is a three-part radio documentary about the influence of the "Mother Road" on America's literary and artistic c...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:02
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Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:42
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In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:22
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:28
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One of the last songs that Johnny Cash recorded before he died was calle, “There Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down).”

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:46
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Don Hodges studies music psychology. Here, he discusses one of his latests studies that gives us some insight into what our favorite song (and musi...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Mayan woman praying in an Evangelical Church in Guatemala's Highlands, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: El Shaddai Church in Guatemala City, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Songs with dogs barking imitations and goofy realities but mostly music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:01:42
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
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Cheryl Wilke was born and raised on the prairie in small town central Minnesota. She's been published in The Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
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KAXE contributor, Robert Jevne, shares "Cherries." A piece about a young woman's artistic venture with an intriguing direction.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:26
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Willie Mae "BIG MAMMA" THORNTON was a Blues singer, musician and songwriter. She had a short life and is best known for the songs "Hound Dog" and "...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WVAS


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eddie Harris, Credit: Atlantic Records
EDDIE HARRIS was an jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also flu...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a special musical tribute to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known as the great NINA SIMONE. This special contains some of her biggest hits.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: King Curtis
This is a one hour musical program on the legacy of saxophonist KING CURTIS.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:16