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Liberace & His Spectacular Crystal Closet
From: Eric Jansen
Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
The Lomax Archives
From: Willis Arnold
Series: Local Music Worldwide
Caption: Records From Around the World, Credit: Willis Arnold
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:38
Chavez Ravine
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Eminent domain and the business of baseball level a community.

Bought by KUNM, Nevada Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 9
Over Troubled Water
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Reporter Andy Mills tries to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, while the Guys place America’s biggest scam in context.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Subways
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
Jazz's One Hit Wonders
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Trumpeter Herb Alpert is the only artist in history to have a number one song as both an instrumentalist and as a vocalist.
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we go in search of jazz's flash-in-the-pan and pop crossover phenoms whose light burned bright and then burned o...

Bought by WRGY, 90.5 WSNC, Radio New Zealand, KZYX, KPVL and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Before They Were (Jazz) Stars
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Torch singer turned civil rights siren Abbey Lincoln
Louis Armstrong: garbage picker; Duke Ellington: soda jerk; Kurt Elling: theology student. Just like other celebrities, your favorite jazz stars of...

Bought by WRGY, WEZU, WNCU, KZYX, KPVL and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Texas Music History: Fredrick Lemsky
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the very first Czech musicians to perform i...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Sex, Jazz and the Bawdy Blues
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin
In this hour, it's the shared history of jazz and sex—from the blues' raunchy roots to the French lounge singer who made the Pope into his "greates...

Bought by KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Best of The New Jazz Archive 2011: Part 1
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Chicago's historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge was once the favorite haunt of mobster Al Capone.
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012 with a look back at some of our favorite interviews and music from the ...

Bought by WRGY, KZYX, WNCU, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
From Scott Joplin to Super Mario Bros.: Making Old-Time Piano New Again
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: At age 29, Martin Spitznagel is the World Champion of Old-Time Piano Playing., Credit: Martin Spitznagel
A 20-something pianist is making old-time piano new again... with a little help from Darth Vader and Super Mario Bros.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Public Radio Remix, KUOW, and WAMC


  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
3 Great American Voices
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: Julia Child
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WXXI, WNPR, and KTEP


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 4
Detroit's Floating Post Office
From: Zak Rosen
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On the banks of the Detroit River, sits the J.W. Westcott. The ship is only 45 feet long. But believe it or not, it has its own zip code. Since 1...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Forensic Architect
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Chris Carley, Forensic Architect
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Frank T. Hopkins (Hidalgo), November 11, 1951
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Frank Ferrante as Groucho Marx
From: WRVO
Caption: Frank Ferrante as Groucho Marx, Credit: Ryan Meehan
Performing artist Frank Ferrante has been entertaining audiences for over two decades with his show, "An Evening with Groucho", where he conjures t...

Bought by KFAI and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 2
Clever Apes: Apes in space
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Ham, the first chimp in space, Credit: NASA
In this episode, host Gabriel Spitzer considers what science has to learn from flying saucers, what it might take for humans to colonize space in o...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Public Radio Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 3
History: Mark Twain in the West (without host lede)
From: KALW
Caption: Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Clemens. Photo by Albert Bigelow Paine (1906), courtesy of the Mark Twain Project.
David Ross tells the tale of Mark Twain in this original documentary.

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 23:13
  • Purchases: 1
Swashbucklers go public in Bemidji
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
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A secret society of swordsmen revealed their talents and charitable aspirations to their home community of Bemidji at the Swashbucklers' Guild Equi...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 09:34
Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
From: Sarah Boothroyd
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How to make your dreams of happiness come true.

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Why Opossum's Tail is Bare
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Radio Theater
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An old Cherokee tale performed by the Cherokee High School Theater Arts class from Cherokee, North Carolina.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 11, 2010
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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One-hour special explores the creation and impact of Miles Davis' album "Kind Of Blue."

Bought by KAZU, WCSU-FM, WMMT, WCAI / WNAN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
Wayne C. Henderson: How Guitar Making Saved His Life
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wayne C. Henderson, Credit: http://www.waynehenderson.org/
In this edition, we travel to the homeland of American bluegrass to visit the workshop of guitar builder Wayne C. Henderson. His instruments are co...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1