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The sounds of classic remastered early LP cuts fill the air when the music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross & Art Blakey is presented on the 29th edit...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 58:58
Early Bebop fills the air when the remastered 78 RPM records of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis,Tadd Dameron and Dexter Gordon are hea...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 58:51
"Swanee", "Hi De Ho Man" and "Avalon" will be among the 78 RPM records (and movie soundtracks) heard on the 16th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama H...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 57:07
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.
Great for Samuel Beckett's birthday, the anniversary of "Waiting for Go...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 09:34
A short Irish fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Saint Patrick Day or anytime.
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 07:27
CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:55
"Singin' in the Bathtub", "Blue Hawaii" and "Aloha Oe" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 15th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 59:02
A look at the devoted fans of Albert Payson Terhune
and his book "Lad: A Dog"
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 25:27
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
A box of 4th of July fireworks, complete with surprises and rarities from Johnny Cash, Cat Power, John Prine, Spinal Tap, James Brown, and many mor...
Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, WSGE, and KISU
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 59:15
- Purchases: 4
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:18
90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Join us today for the first part of this week's show on the upcoming Chinese New Year with special guest Ms. Peng Zeng, assistant director of the C...
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 11:47
It’s been 10 years since the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University opened its doors to students. Ar...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Danae wanted to get Margaret something very, very special for her golden birthday. So she planned an elaborate surprise for her. But Margaret doesn...
Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 2
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 46:57
Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie af...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...
- Added: Aug 15, 2010
- Length: 04:56
Summer in Minnesota means a few things: playing in the park, playing in the water and playing around at all the festivals scattered about Central M...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: 29:19
PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...
- Added: Jun 22, 2010
- Length: 57:43
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...
Bought by WSGE, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRUA, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and WAMC
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 5
Think you know why the White House flag is flying, and the Washington Monument is tri-colored? Then you might want to think again.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2010
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 1
Mildred Bond Roxborough (rocks-burro) , who has worked for the NAACP for more than 50 years, tells her colleague Maxim (MAX-um) Thorne (thorn) abou...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFOK-LP, and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2009
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 3
