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SPECIAL: Today is Union Day, marking the date in 1964 when Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become Tanzania. We’ll highlight music from some of th...
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
SPECIAL: In conjunction with the April Vox Humana feature, a special program in the Global Village featuring a conversation with two members of the...
Bought by KHNS
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
This time in the Global Village we celebrate the birthday of John Williams. Though best known as a classical guitarist, Williams has explored the g...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 57:00
SPECIAL: Global Village celebrates two Language Days observed by the United Nations on this date – Spanish and English Language Days (two of the of...
Bought by North Country Public Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
Featuring music from Congolese activists KOKOKO!, new music Pakistani singer/songwriter Arooj Aftab, British-American sitar player Anoushka Shankar...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
SPECIAL: Global Village marks Earth Day with topical songs from Tom Lehrer, Jimmy Cliff, Marvin Gaye, Chicago Afrobeat Project, and more. Plus birt...
Bought by North Country Public Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
Is Alex Garland’s new film, "Civil War," a warning or mere provocation? Adam and Josh discuss. Plus, the William Wyler Marathon continues with the ...
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
On Afterglow, we’re spending the month of May turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties, a time when the Great American Songbook was in its in...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin follows a desperate traveling salesman as he tries to survive a deadly side job in Blood for Dust.
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 03:00
On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin follows a family of legendary creatures as they go about their daily lives in Sasquatch Sunset.
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 2
The Ohio Players’ James “Diamond” Williams talks about the intention for their 1977 funky tune, "O-H-I-O."
Hear new music from the legendary Char...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 59:28
- Purchases: 3
For her PhD, Deja Perkins is studying datasets generated by the public, also known as participatory science projects. These projects include eBird,...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
While Dara Wilson was working at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C., she introduced visitors to the Amazonia exhibit. She would describe the so...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Adé Ben-Salahuddin stopped to help a trapped young bird on his way home from work, he found an unexpected source of help: an older Black woman...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
This episode narrated by Marcus Rosten explores the history and the birdlife of the Niagara River Corridor. Just downstream from the falls, Long-ta...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, neuroscientist Lola Neal explores how birds are used as models to understand many neural processes, as they have cognitive abiliti...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, Nicole Jackson and Emma Brittain announce the fifth year of Black Birders Week, a week-long celebration with events and activities...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In 2019, several co-workers at the National Audubon Society formed a team for the World Series of Birding that focused on identifying female birds....
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Red-headed Woodpeckers excavate cavities in large, dead trees called snags. Yet, over much of the Red-head's range, snags are frequently cut down a...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As darkness descends on a May evening, the voices of many birds go quiet. But for some birds, especially those known as nightjars, the music is jus...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gives a word of advice to Ollie, an up-and-coming gumshoe. Ollie thinks he has heard his fir...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Waterfowl like this Muscovy duckling spend up to 30 days in the egg, so they’re able to walk, swim, and feed themselves as soon as they hatch. We c...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Some birds have always called nocturnally, but other species are relative newcomers to the nighttime music scene, specifically in urban areas. Bird...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Seabirds have no problem drinking sea water. The salt they take in is absorbed and moves through their blood stream into a pair of salt glands abov...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The music of Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Alice Coltrane, Nina Simone and other jazz artists in a turbulent year of change.
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 59:05
