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This Week in Texas Music History: Dean Beard
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
This Week in Texas Music History: Cedric Haywood
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of December (12/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the state’s most versatile and prolific j...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: John Hardee
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of December (12/20): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented musician who traded in the nightclub...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
The Mikie Show #51, Margaret
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
The Story of New Orleans' J&M Recording Studios
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: Fats Domino in J&M Studios
New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #49, Sheril
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #48, George
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Here it is, another new show! This time we speak with George Bradley. He is a master of herpetology, meaning he collects, manages, identifies and p...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #47, Kara
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s another episode of The Mikie Show! I know, we were all hoping I’d say that. Well, I did. Join us as we speak with Kara Hartzler, an attorney w...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
The Mikie Show #46, Wake
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s episode forty-six! Fresh on the heels of episode forty-five. Maybe not so fresh, it’s been a while, but what matters is, you’re here! Yes, thi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas Bird Count audio postcard
From: Dina Weinstein
Caption: Tropical Audobon Society members on the annual Christmas Bird Count, Credit: Dina Weinstein
The annual Christmas Bird Count involves birders all over the Americas as citizen scientists tracking population and environmental changes. Miami, ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:55
The Mikie Show #45, Mary
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s a new episode the The Mikie Show! This time around we speak with Mary Hartman, PhD. A former dean of Douglass University, she is at the forefr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Ladino Hanukah Songs Shed Light on Endangered Language of Jews
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Rivka Amado performs Ladino songs at the Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living in Danville, California., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
As the candles of Hanukah connect Jews around the world, holiday songs in Ladino shine a light on a language UNESCO rates as “severely endangered.”...

Bought by WTIP, WAMC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 4
The Mikie Show #44, Gordon
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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This episode we speak with percussionist extraordinaire, Gordon Gottlieb. He is a world class multi-instrumentalist, and can play literally hundred...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #43, Sarah
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Hurrah, it’s another show about stuff I don’t know! Yes, this episode we speak with Sarah Mattson, planetary photographic cartographer, you know, I...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #42, Glenn
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode forty-two welcomes back our friend, psychotherapist Glenn Berger, PhD. This is his fourth visit with us and as always it’s great to have hi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
IMAGINARY OKLAHOMA: Alan Heathcock's "Streetlamps"
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Alan Heathcock reads us his story "Streetlamps" from our Imaginary Oklahoma series and explains the family history behind the unusual coupling in h...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #41, Sarah
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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This episode we speak with Sarah Luchetta, an archaeologist, French speaker and roller derby girl. What was that, roller derby girl? Yes, besides i...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #40, Hector & Lidia
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s episode forty, the first in a series of forties! We celebrate this new decade of episodes with another wonderful show about dancing. This time...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #39, Whit
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode thirty-nine! Just had to say it, hope you don’t mind. We speak with Whit Patten, a man who grew up on a farm in the country (he had to boar...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Grocery Store Gospel
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Once a week, community members gather in the Blue Jackalope grocery store and coffee shop for blues and barbecue Sundays. The event offers a little...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #37, Abe
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with fabulous violinist Abe Appleman. Besides a love of chamber music, his main gig is playing with the first fiddles in the Or...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #36, Liz
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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This episode we speak with Liz Tilley, a soon to be PhD in Family Studies and Human Development. Her focus is on awareness and prevention of teen p...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Feast
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Jazz Fest 2011
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An audio postcard about the culinary side of the 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans

  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:57
The Mikie Show #35, Ned
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with newsman/publisher Ned Creighton. He drinks a lot but that’s okay, he’s in the news business. Nah, I’m kidding. He is a gre...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #34, Michelle
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Hurray, we get to do another program about dance! Yes, you can join us for a chat with Michelle Thompson, a dancer for Ballet Austin in Austin, Tex...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1