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Caption:  Chicago Kent College of Law indoor baseball player, M. Ryan, 1910, Credit: Library of Congress
Just in time for March Madness, we're taking on the history of college sports. It's a subject that has provided some especially heated controversie...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Benny Moten
Benny Moten led the Kansas City Orchestra in the 1920s, arguably the most influential big bands of the era. His arrangements helped to create what...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Miff Mole & Red Nichols
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders record label
California’s influence on early jazz is not a trifling matter. Several musicians emerged from the Golden State to lustrous careers.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:52
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13
Caption: Wangari Maathai
Sea Change Radio co-founders Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon sat down with Maathai in the spring of 2009. This week, we remember the spirit of Wan...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:30
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War News Radio Headlines 110715

  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 03:41
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In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KALW, WEKU, KERA, KGOU and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
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"Louisiana Purchase" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/20

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
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"Ripley’s Believe It or Not" CLassic Radio Highlight Reel 12/19

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:49
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"George Fisher" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/18

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:13
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"Edgar Bergen" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/17

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 08:30
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"Gone With the Wind" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/15

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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"Mr. District Attorney" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/13

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:12
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"Fred Allen’s reading of, “Peter and the Wolf”" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/14

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
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"Lud Gluskin" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/16

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
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"Supper Club" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/11

  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:19
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"Douglas Fairbanks Jr." Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/9

  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 18:48
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"Radio’s First Announcer" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/8

  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:19
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"My Little Margie" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/7

  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 07:15
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My Little Margie" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/7

  • Added: Dec 01, 2009
  • Length: 07:15
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"Calvin Coolidge" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/6

  • Added: Dec 01, 2009
  • Length: 04:57
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"Green Hornet" Classic Radio Highlight Reel 12/5

  • Added: Dec 01, 2009
  • Length: 06:27