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"European Jazz Stage, Program 7" licensed by KOSU

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:55:56 GMT

Licensed by KOSU

European Jazz Stage, Program 7

Radio Netherlands, 59:35

Exciting jazz from the great stages of Europe

Peter Beets Trio New Cool Collective & Nairobi Friends Daniel Frankl hosts pure and intense piano swing: the Dutchman Peter Beets has shared the stage with some of the best in jazz, including Elvin Jones, Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea. At the Concertgebouw, he mesmerizes audiences with his lightning changes and exquisitely responsive trio. Benjamin Herman's New Cool Collective blends jazz, latin, and soul with contemporary triphop beats. After a visit to Kenya, he invited djembe, guitar and flute players from Nairobi to join his ensemble for this performance he calls ?a total package of amusement."

"MicrobeWorld May 19 - 23, 2008" licensed by KOSU

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:51:22 GMT

Licensed by KOSU

MicrobeWorld May 19 - 23, 2008

Finger Lakes Productions, 01:30

This week on MicrobeWorld... tracking infections with software, immune problems in space, chlorine-free pools and more...

A 90-second daily feature produced by Finger Lakes Productions, highlighting microbes and how they impact our everyday lives. Each piece includes the words of an expert in the field. Currently heard daily around the world on radio networks and stations as well as a podcast, the show is free to stations. Contact info@flpradio.com for more registration information. This week's pieces are: Mon., 5/19 -STD?s are on the rise: The increasing number of sexually transmitted disease cases reported in 2006 has CDC researchers worried. Tues., 5/20 -Tracking infections with software: Software similar to what Google uses to rank pages in a web search is being used to track the spread of infections. Wed., 5/21 -Using cyanobacteria for biofuels: Some bacteria are able to use the sun?s rays to produce a renewable source of energy-rich fats and oils which can be harvested, processed, and used as fuel. Thurs., 5/22 - Immune problems in space: Floating around in zero gravity looks like fun, but astronaut?s on long flights may return to Earth with compromised immune systems. Fri., 5/23 -Chlorine-free pools: It?s possible to kill bacteria in pools without chlorine by using ultra-violet light, but scientists still need to figure out how much light is required to be effective.

"War and Place" licensed by WKMS

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:40:15 GMT

Licensed by WKMS

War and Place

Liner Notes, 58:00

LINER NOTES redefines Memorial Day programming with an extraordinary hour entitled War and Place - Featuring Tom Brokaw

LINER NOTES redefines Memorial Day programming with an extraordinary hour entitled War and Place - * Tom Brokaw, shares memories of his moving visits to Normandy and Pearl Harbor - how they changed his life, and enabled him to understand the great sacrifices of ordinary people, from hometowns like his. * Writer Maxine Hong Kingston helps Veterans put their memories on paper with "healing and writing workshops." * Distinguished novelist Robert Stone, ("Dog Soliders") discusses the cultural legacy of Vietnam. * Former Marine Wayne Karlin author of "War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam", shares stories about soldier/authors on both sides of that conflict and discusses how the picture of war in the movies has evolved over the years. * Writer Dana Sachs, ("A House on Dream Street") portrays the new Vietnam - a tourist mecca with fine food and beaches. She counsels us on where to travel and explains why Americans are surprisingly welcome. * Photographer Steve McCurry tells of his famous photo "Afghan Girl," and what he finds when he travels to war zones. * Psychoanalyst Emmanuel Kalftal takes a tape recorder with him as he travels to the place his parents met, Dachau, where he finds a living memorial, not a museum. * Michael Arad, architect of the prize-wining design for the 9/11 memorial at the former World Trade Center, helps us think about the power of place in mourning. * Phillip Gourevitch, editor of the Paris Review, who wrote "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Familes", reflects on those who suffered through the ethnic conflicts in Africa. * Reporter Deborah George takes us to post war Sierra Leone to meet a young woman who will become her daughter. * Finally, we travel to a small town in Cornwall, England where a young evacuee from the London blitz, now 80, found a peaceful home for life.

"Vinyl Cafe May 18th, 2008 "Bay Leaf"" licensed by WUCX

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:41:45 GMT

Licensed by WUCX

Vinyl Cafe May 18th, 2008 "Bay Leaf"

Vinyl Cafe, 54:00

Stuart explains why he owes the bay leaf an apology...

...why he is always embarrassed talking about raspberries and why he is terrified to say the name of his country, Canada, out loud. Stuart also tells us all about the first ever electronic instrument - the theremin.

"Bluegrass Review #821" licensed by KFSR

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:37:47 GMT

Licensed by KFSR

Bluegrass Review #821

Philip Nusbaum, 59:00

program for May 17 - 23, 2008

First half hour The program begins with contemporary bluegrass, a piece called Diamond Joe by Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands. Diamond Joe is one mean guy. The singer relates that when she's dead and buried to give her blankets to her buddies, but the fleas to Diamond Joe. Following that, it's a number by those boys of self-destruction, the Earl Bros. Then, it's a couple of songs where the lawbreaker gets away with it. In the Stanley Bros song, The Girl Behind the Bar, the singer meets a woman in the bar, takes her home, and there they encounter Bar Room Jack. Jealous Jack commits a murder, but the singer goes to jail. The classic bluegrass song of this type is The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band, where the woman plants a stolen jewel on her companion, who then goes to jail. After all of this tough subject matter, the show rejoices with a Gem of Bluegrass that pays tribute to Earl Scruggs, the man most responsible for the style of banjo playing most players use today. Second Half Hour The fiddle is the only bluegrass instrument that can be sustain a tone. What happens when you use multiple fiddles in performance? The harmonies are rich and the tone is beautiful. The centerpiece of this half hour are the twin fiddles used in instrumental and vocal bluegrass. In General The Bluegrass Review presents bluegrass in an engaging, entertaining and informative package. Each week, the show presents current and historical bluegrass music, as well as interviews, produced segments and commentary. The result is in-depth and entertaining bluegrass programming that presents two or three thematic bursts within each show, and appeals to a wide audience of music lovers. The Bluegrass Review is available free of charge to stations that run it in a consistent timeslot.

"War and Place" licensed by KMXT

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:56:58 GMT

Licensed by KMXT

War and Place

Liner Notes, 58:00

LINER NOTES redefines Memorial Day programming with an extraordinary hour entitled War and Place - Featuring Tom Brokaw

"Physician Depression-Part 3" licensed by 90.5 WSNC

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:42:12 GMT

Licensed by 90.5 WSNC

Physician Depression-Part 3

KUOW, 05:18

Examines depression in physicans

The head of the Washington Physician's Health Program says there's an epidemic of suicide among doctors. In the final part of our series on impaired physicians, we'll examine the reasons why depressed doctors go untreated and why the end result is often an attempt at suicide.

"Vinyl Cafe May 18th, 2008 "Bay Leaf"" licensed by North Country Public Radio

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:06:50 GMT

Licensed by North Country Public Radio

Vinyl Cafe May 18th, 2008 "Bay Leaf"

Vinyl Cafe, 54:00

Stuart explains why he owes the bay leaf an apology...

"Blues & Beyond #98: Kenny Neal "Let Life Flow"" licensed by WMHT

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:32:39 GMT

Licensed by WMHT

Blues & Beyond #98: Kenny Neal "Let Life Flow"

WXPN, 59:00

Kenny Neal's new album "Let Life Flow" will be featured, as well as music from his father Raful Neal and sister Jackie Neal.

Kenny Neal still has some of his boyish charm at age 50, but the last few years have not been child's play for this Baton Rouge blues artist. The Neal family is a large family full of musicians. Kenny has become the best-known among them, but most of the family has some connection to music. In less than a year between the spring seasons of 2004 and 2005, Kenny Neal and his family were rocked by losses and tragedies in rapid succession. A brother, drummer Ronnie Neal, died young in April 2004, and the family patriarch, hamonica player Raful Neal, died of cancer at the end of that summer. Kenny Neal's drummer and close friend Kennard Johnson also died around that time, and in March 2005, sister Jackie Neal, a singer in the process of restarting her career, was murdered at age 37. Kenny has now released his first album since these losses, a reflection called "Let Life Flow." We'll her several songs from the album, as well as songs from the late Raful Neal and Jackie Neal. The show also includes a song from a rising new figure in jazz vocals, Melody Gardot, and classics from innovative works by Ornette Coleman and Milt Jackson, and more.

"Quirks & Quarks: Episode May 10, 2008" licensed by North Country Public Radio

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:00:51 GMT

Licensed by North Country Public Radio

Quirks & Quarks: Episode May 10, 2008

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 53:00

Canada's national weekly science program

The Ferocious Summer The Antarctic summer of 2001 has become a turning point in our understanding of climate in the far south. It was a year of warm temperatures, high winds and lots of rain. It also happened to be the summer that Meredith Hooper was there to chronicle the activities of a group of scientists studying the Adelie penguins. What she saw was shocking. Thousands of penguins were missing, and those that survived were having trouble raising their chicks. The struggle of these birds is a harbinger of what's to come in the wider ecology of the region. Ms. Hooper's new book, The Ferocious Summer, looks at the plight of the penguins and how climate change is coming to the South Pole. Plus - How the tongue orchid turns wasps into love bugs.

"American Popular Song and World War II" licensed by WKMS

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:41:01 GMT

Licensed by WKMS

American Popular Song and World War II

WFIU, 118:00

Perfect for Memorial Day, a 2-hour program of American popular song from the World War II era

Perfect for Memorial Day weekend. This special episode of "Afterglow" features special guest Michael McGerr, author, cultural historian, and Indiana University professor. The program includes martial-spirited songs from the early months of America's entry into the war ("Remember Pearl Harbor" and "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"), as well as pre-war songs about the draft, songs about rationing and shortages, songs about the separation of lovers, and much more, including some radio news broadcasts. Afterglow is available as a weekly series. Contact cboyce@indiana.edu for subscription and carriage information.

"This I Believe - Lee Shulman" licensed by WPSU-FM

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:21 GMT

Licensed by WPSU-FM

This I Believe - Lee Shulman

This I Believe, 03:33

Educator Lee Shulman believes life, like pastrami, should be enjoyed in its full and rich complexity.

HOST: Lee Shulman is president of the Carnegie (car-NAY-gee) Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in Palo Alto, California. He works to improve teaching at all levels, from grade school to medical school. He told us his belief has its roots in a lesson he learned his father?s delicatessen. Here is Lee Shulman with his essay for This I Believe. SHULMAN: I believe in pastrami, well-marbled pastrami. Hot, thinly sliced, piled on fresh rye bread with dark mustard and a crisp dill pickle. I believe that pastrami is a metaphor for a well-lived life, for a well-designed institution, and even for healthy relationships. Pastrami is marbled rather than layered. Its parts, the lean and the fat, are mixed together rather than neatly separated. Too much of life is lived by adding layers that don?t really connect with one another. When I was about 12, my parents bought a small Jewish delicatessen on the northwest side of Chicago. And that's where I learned about pastrami. I worked at the counter and I learned the differences between well-marbled and merely layered meats. My Dad would explain to me that some customers wanted him to slice away all of the fat on a brisket and then they?d came back to complain that the meat wasn't juicy. He?d sigh and explain that without marbling, they?d never get what they wanted. I've seen the wisdom of my Dad's insight over time. When I started teaching college, my mentors warned me against having any interest in my students' lives outside the classroom. In my first month on the job, I taught a 500-student class. One day a young woman came to my office to tell me she wouldn't be able to complete all the course requirements. It turned out her husband had been killed in a car accident the month before. She was a nineteen-year-old widow. I then began to wonder about the other 499 students. Their stories may not have been as extreme, but I would have been a fool to think their lives wouldn't have an impact on the classroom. Learning and living were marbled in my students' lives, not layered. To teach, advise and mentor them, I needed to be sensitive and aware of their tragedies and celebrations, their ambitions and their anxieties. Separate layers are much easier to trim from the brisket. Separate layers are much easier to build, to schedule and to design. But I believe that marbling demands that we work with the messy world of people, relationships, and obligations in their full, rich complexity. The diet mavens inform us that marbling can be dangerous for our health, but as an educator I?m willing -- even obligated -- to take the risk. I want to marble habits of mind, habits of practice and habits of the heart with my students -- just like pastrami.

"Vinyl Cafe May 18th, 2008 "Bay Leaf"" licensed by WFYI

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:30 GMT

Licensed by WFYI

Vinyl Cafe May 18th, 2008 "Bay Leaf"

Vinyl Cafe, 54:00

Stuart explains why he owes the bay leaf an apology...

"11 Central Ave #85. How to be poor." licensed by WBEZ

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:37:17 GMT

Licensed by WBEZ

11 Central Ave #85. How to be poor.

800 lb. Productions, 03:59

This week's installment of the radio comic strip. Mixed by Walter Dixon. Written by Susan Shepherd and Eliza Lewis.

In which Dante teaches 11 Central Ave how to be poor.

"Blues & Beyond #98: Kenny Neal "Let Life Flow"" licensed by KXOT Public Radio

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:21:21 GMT

Licensed by KXOT Public Radio

Blues & Beyond #98: Kenny Neal "Let Life Flow"

WXPN, 59:00

Kenny Neal's new album "Let Life Flow" will be featured, as well as music from his father Raful Neal and sister Jackie Neal.