The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.

Just like the National Jukebox, SOUND BEAT provides new access to vintage recordings.

SOUND BEAT is a daily, 90-second radio show highlights the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University, one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each episode focuses on one particular recording from the archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history. Featured recordings come from a wide range of periods and genres. Popular and classical music performances, operatic works, and film scores are well-represented, as are those from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. Sound Beat episodes also feature recordings from some of the great thinkers, political figures, and luminaries from the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries. People like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, and Theodore Roosevelt, to name just a few.

Share vintage recordings with your audience!  Add SOUND BEAT to your schedule today!

LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CONTENT DEPOT, CD,Downloads (email for info)

Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature

This award-winning 13-part series of half-hour shows features the “bioneers” – social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. Cutting edge – charismatic – provocative – hopeful. These are the ardent voices of our most brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. They span the rich arc of human endeavor and practical transformation toward a future environment of hope. Join over 370 stations worldwide in 11 nations to reach passionate and loyal listeners

Some of the topics of Series 11 include:

Tears in the Eyes, Rainbow in the Heart: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope
The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, Founder, of the Jane Goodall Institute revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the animal kin-dom.

The Organic Revolution: From Hippie to Hip to Scale
Though still small in the big picture, organic food has come all the way — from hippie to hip to mainstream since the Sixties. But can organic food and fair food ever feed seven billion people?

From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of black people who were enslaved meet?

Molecular Psychology: Good Chemistry with Nature’s Green Chemistry
Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would one day litter the landscape, wash up on every beach around the world and release toxic substances into the web of life and your body long after its short disposable life?

AVAILABLE SOON on Content Depot, PRX, FTP Download, & CD

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SOUND BEAT – A trip through the history of recorded sound. The daily, 90-second radio show highlights the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University, one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each episode focuses on one particular recording from the archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.

Featured recordings come from a wide range of periods and genres. Popular and classical music performances, operatic works, and film scores are well-represented, as are those from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. Sound Beat episodes also feature recordings from some of the great thinkers, political figures, and luminaries from the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries. People like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, and Theodore Roosevelt, to name just a few.
LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CONTENT DEPOT, CD,Downloads (email for info)

BIRDNOTE — Daily vignettes that incorporate the rich sounds of birds with stories that illustrate the interesting and in some cases, truly amazing abilities of birds.  Each show is scheduled to coincide with the time of year when you can see or hear the featured bird.
LENGTH: 2 minutes
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: Content Depot,  mp3

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:  CD, mp2, and Podcast
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LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CONTENT DEPOT, CD,Downloads (email for info)

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Rights Watch Radio presents four insightful reports for your newscast, or news magazine programs.

Veteran public radio journalist Anne Garrels looks at the new issues and voices that are defining today’s human rights movement.

Produced by Barret Golding, Jessie Graham, & Anne Garrels

With voices from Burma, Congo, Lebanon, Kenya, India and beyond.

See more information and details HERE