Compact Discoveries is a series of one-hour, classical music radio programs, which, true to its title, introduces listeners to some of the most exciting and unusual compositions to be found on compact discs. Award-winning host-producer-writer Fred Flaxman organizes his weekly hour of classical selections thematically: “Brazilian Beats,” “Discs for Dishwashing,” “The Tune that Drove Composers Wild,” “The French Gershwin,” “The Cuban Gershwin,” “Best Music For Backrubs,” “Aaron Copland: The Brooklyn Cowboy,” “Fauré’s Fiascos”…and on and on. Fred’s easy-going manner and wit, combined with his masterful grasp of musicology make him an ideal presenter and guide. Listeners love the show, and broadcasters have nothing but praise for it: “If there is any hope of interesting more radio listeners in classical music, it will be because of programs like Compact Discoveries. The host, Fred Flaxman, makes this music accessible, fascinating and fun. Program directors across the country owe it to their listeners to add this terrific, imaginative, creative series to their schedules.”
– Jerry Carr, President and CEO, WXEL-TV-DT-FM
PRX’S MOST LICENSED PRODUCER AND/OR MOST LICENSED SERIES 3 YEARS RUNNING!
AVAILABLE: PRX, FTP Download, & CDs
Isla Earth is nominated for Best Investigative/Series and Best Multimedia Package at the 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
On June 14th, hundreds of journalists from Los Angeles and the Southland will gather to honor their colleagues when the Los Angeles Press Club presents its 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
Editors, reporters and supporters of quality journalism will gather at the newly renovated Sheraton Universal in Universal City to see recipients honored for their work in broadcast, print and online media.
Last year, the Isla Earth Radio Series won first place in the News Bureau category at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 50th Annual Journalism Awards gala on Saturday, June 21, 2008.
ISLA EARTH — A radio series that explores today’s most important challenges to the environment and impressive successes in conservation. These entertaining, science-based, modules encourage ecological awareness, deepen understanding of our natural world, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices. Produced by the Catalina Island Conservancy.
LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, mp2, and via Podcast
SIRIUS XM Radio launched Footlight Parade (known as On the Aisle on SIRIUS XM), with host Bill Rudman, on the On Broadway channel. Each week, Footlight Parade (aka On the Aisle) will feature a theme that ties together performers, songs and lively commentary. SIRIUS and XM listeners will hear a mix of show tune hits related to specific themes, such as “Making an Entrance;” “1950 on Stage and Screen;” “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? – The Social Conscience of the American Musical;” “Charmed;” and “Strike Up the Band: Broadway Overtures.”
Footlight Parade (aka On the Aisle) is produced by The Musical Theater Project, a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to celebrate the stage and screen musical as a great American art form. Rudman founded the organization in 2000.
WHEN: Saturday at 3 pm ET and rebroadcast on Tuesday at 9 pm ET
WHERE: On Broadway, SIRIUS channel 77 and XM channel 75
Broadcast on more than 75 stations nationwide, host Bill Rudman’s Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical is a weekly radio program showcasing the best of Broadway and Hollywood – songs from the turn of the 20th century to today.
Treat your listeners to a powerful and unique half-hour this Memorial Day
- A double portrait of German sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), who created The Grieving Parents in memory of her son killed in WWI, and contemporary American-German sculptor Suse Lowenstein, creator of an equally monumental work honoring her son lost in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. For both women, their work (18 years for Kathe, 14 years for Suse) becomes a pathway through and beyond grief, affirming the transforming power of art.
- A dual creation of storyteller Helen Engelhardt and sound artist Marjorie Van Halteren.
- The third program in a trilogy exploring the themes of war, loss, memory, and regeneration. The other two half hours, Unquiet Graves and Yesterday and Forever, are also available.
LENGTH: 26 min 30 Sec
AVAILABLE: Free CD & PRX (134 points)
Many of our shows won awards at the 2008 Zeitfunk Awards from PRX. Each spring PRX release the results of the “mostiest” stations, producers, and listeners for the previous calendar year. It’s like a zeitgeist — only funkier!
The Vinyl Cafe walked away with two 1st Place Awards; Most Licensed Group & Most Licensed Series!
One of Canada’s most popular radio programs, with over 750,000 North American listeners. Host and story-teller Stuart McLean is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist and humorist. The show features the music of up and coming Canadians — both live and recorded — and the misadventures of Dave — owner of the “Vinyl Cafe”, the world’s smallest record store (motto: “We may not be big, but we’re small”). Dave’s fictional milieu includes wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie, and assorted friends, neighbors, and customers. Since 1998, Stuart has taken the show on the road to large and small towns across Canada from Newfoundland to the Yukon.
Liner Notes won for Most Licensed Debut Group.
Unlike any travel show on public radio, LINER NOTES is a journey in itself. A not-to-be-missed celebration of wit, wisdom and wanderlust.
Recorded over lunch at the Captain’s table aboard the legendary Queen Mary 2®, destinations as they are and as they exist in literature, painting, film, music and myth are discovered in monthly, hour-long “Algonquin Roundtable” gatherings of notable and award-winning authors, artists, journalists and musicians. Each conversation will raise themes relating to travel, such as “Falling in Love with a Place”, “The Benefits of Wandering,” “Lost in Translation,” or “Ex-Patriot Dreams.”
FIVE of our shows were in the TOP TEN for Most Licensed Piece from PRX.
Congratulations to all of our winners!
Chasing the Crescent Moon: The Story of Dr. Frempong and Sickle Cell Disease
