This podcast features the radio show Pete Kelly's Blues, it was a tribute to age of dixieland jazz in the 1920s. It starred Jack Webb who would go on to become a big star on the crime drama Dragnet, but it also featured blues singer Meredith Howard, one of the few African-Americans to star in a non-stereotypical role during during the golden age of radio. Howard also had a recording career, and usually sang a solo playing the character of Maggie Jackson. 

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The Music of H the Great, featuring one of the most prolific and talented creators of intelligent, ambient techno and more.

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Tricia Harte of Digital Third Coast warns of major job losses in the years ahead due to automation. Dave Packer of ABC News reports on the declining coal industry, while Geoff Greenfield of of Third Sun Solar tells of the growing market for renewable energy. Fourteen year old Amber Bennett explains how she obtained a college degree while starting high school. 

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All-Star Tribute to Canada Lee, as aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1941. Canada Lee pioneered acting roles for African Americans, starring on radio, stage and screen. He's best known for the films Native Son, and Lifeboat. Lee was also a champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, and was the first African-American producer on Broadway. Honoring Canada Lee in this presentation are Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Hattie McDaniel, Eddie Anderson, and many others. Then we will hear Canada Lee performing on the program New World A Comin' in 1944, playing the role of Langston Hughes. Finally, there's a 1949 interview with Lee on the Barry Gray Show. 

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Meet Gene Shimandle, the former college professor who launched a walking campaign to increase organ donations after receiving a heart transplant. Also Dr. Holly Thacker of the website Speaking of Women's Health who warns of the Osteoporosis Crisis. 

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Rare audio of a 1939 contest between the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Senators. The Major League Baseball teams battle in the last game of the season. 

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An examination of New Thought Christianity, the Catholic Child Abuse scandals, religious violence, and the separation of church and state.  

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This is a tribute to one of America's greatest inventors. From 1939 we have an episode from the radio reality show, Strange As It Seems. The installment highlights Dr. George Washington Carver, an amazing agricultural scientist who promoted alternative crops to cotton, and methods to prevent soil depletion, that saved the southern United States from economic ruin. He will explain it in his own words, plus you'll hear the story of Carver's life in a 1948 episode of Destination Freedom.

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Remembering the Cuyahoga River Fire in Cleveland, Ohio USA which sparked the global ecology movement, with the people who were there, and involved in the clean up of the legendary waterway. 

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From the 1930s, the very popular Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour. With the Harlem Roustabouts Jazz Group, Blues singer Martha Booker, and other amazing performers, with a salute to Mansfield, Ohio. 

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