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Commentary: The Joy of Losing
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on how supporting a losing baseball team -- the Atlanta Braves -- truly builds character.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:25
Compact Discoveries 108: The Color of Music, Part 2: The Competition
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Host Fred Flaxman serves as judge and jury for a mock competition to find the best compositions in his personal collection with colors in their tit...

Bought by KENW, KCSC, KAMU, WQUB 90.3 FM, KENW and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 19
Hat Talking Hat
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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Commentary on talking nonsense from Ed Veshecco as told by David Greenberger.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: :28
How Whivet Got Her Name
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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Keeping pace with the family pet.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
George Bush, the Next Eliot Ness?
From: Dick Meister
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Passage of the constitutional ban on same-sex marriages sought by President Bush could make him an Eliot Ness, chasing violators as Ness chased vio...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:25
Compact Discoveries 103: Classical Disney
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Favorite melodies from Disney films in the style of great classical composers.

Bought by KENW, KENW, KCSC, KAMU, KWAX and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2006
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 20
Andrew's Mix
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Trading mix tapes with strangers is a work of passion with members of Esther's Mix Tape Collective.

Bought by WBHM-FM, KTNA, WMPG, WILL, and WAMC


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 5
King of Instruments
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What's better than one accordion player? Four accordion players and a percussionist. Meet The Maine Squeeze.

Bought by WNPR, Here and Now, and WMPG


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 3
Compact Discoveries 101: More Carnival Classics
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Three more tuneful, happy works inspired by carnivals.

Bought by KENW, KCSC, WQUB 90.3 FM, KAMU, WSKG and more


  • Added: May 19, 2006
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 11
Compact Discoveries 99: Music by the Numbers
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Fred Flaxman presents music which begins with a number.

Bought by KENW, KCSC, KAMU, WRTU, WQUB 90.3 FM and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2006
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 18
Annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry
From: KRCC-FM
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A festival of testicles!

Bought by KOTO


  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
Compact Discoveries 97: Classically Scottish
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Classical music inspired by Scotland and Scottish folk-music.

Bought by KTRL, KCSC, KAMU, KWAX, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 19
Compact Discoveries 94: Classic Happiness
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Happy music by Brahms, Haydn, Rimsky-Korsakov, George Gershwin, Scot Joplin, Victor Herbert, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Six Brown Brothers.

Bought by KENW, KTRL, KENW, KCSC, KAMU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 17
Quest for the Authentic Beverage
From: Merle Kessler
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Ian takes an on-line poll, and shares the results with you.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
How to Observe Presidents' Day, Observed
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and Joshuah Bearman on Presidents' Day, along with a fifteen-piece marching band and a new song about all forty-three pr...

Bought by KWIT, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2006
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 13
Compact Discoveires 92: A Musical Feast
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Religion inspired some great music, but food fed the creative juices of several composers who are featured on this program.

Bought by KCSC, WXEL, WQUB 90.3 FM, KAMU, WXEL and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 15
Some Things Considered
From: Charlie Schroeder
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Parody of All Things Considered

  • Added: Jan 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:24
StoryCorps: Harold Slappy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Harold Slappy tells his friend Monica about visiting Harlem's Savoy Ballroom as a youth.

Bought by KFOK-LP, WMNF, and WNYC


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 3
10 Faure's Fiascoes
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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The lovely music and musical love-life of French composer Gabriel Faure.

Bought by WMRT, KAMU, WQUB 90.3 FM, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KAMU and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2005
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 14
2 Discs for Dishwashing
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Music which relates by a very far stretch of the imagination to that necessary daily task.

Bought by KENW, KAMU, WQUB 90.3 FM, KAMU, WPVM-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2005
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 15
90 Thomas of Nazareth
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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The exciting piano music of Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth.

Bought by Eclectic 89.1 WBCX, WQUB 90.3 FM, KAMU, WSKG, KCSC and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 13
Compact Discoveries 88: Rene Touzet
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Melodious jazz-inspired art music for the piano by the Cuban composer, Rene Touzet.

Bought by KAMU, WXEL, KCSC, WRTU, KWAX and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2005
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 14
My Favorite Things
From: Rebecca Sheir
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A closet Christmas music junkie discovers the real meaning of the holiday season -- and it's all about bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.

Bought by Prairie Public, KUT, Interfaith Voices, New Hampshire Public Radio, WILL and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 12
A Cook's Notebook: Turkey Stuffing Paul's Way
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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My father says I should make stuffing his way or no way.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet:A Naked Thanksgiving by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Talking turkey about the birds and the bees.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUT, WTIP, KBUT, WBHM-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 14

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