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In 2010, the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia killed 29 men and tore a hole in the lives of countless others. Now you can hear the first-person accounts from survivors and family members. In this riveting, emotionally stunning new work, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, award-winning writers of The Exonerated, and three-time Grammy Award-winning country/folk legend Steve Earle dig deep into the repercussions of the most deadly mining disaster in recent US history.

Broken-down vehicles. Premenopausal libido. A punk rock-loving teen to share the culture shock with. I don't think Hank done it this way.A few years after her 1996 breakthrough album Diary Of A Mod Housewife, singer/songwriter Amy Rigby is still figuring out who she is. Closing in on forty, a newly-divorced mom trying to tour, work temp jobs, and keep a car running, Amy is ready for a change. She trades her beloved NYC for Nashville, where she navigates music, men and motherhood to learn the hard way that outside validation is no substitute for self-belief.Following on from her acclaimed debut...

Ride the High Country helped the genre mature and adapt to turbulent, changing times. It launched Peckinpah's career by invoking the themes of honor, loyalty, and compromised ideals, the destruction of the West and its heroes, and the difficulty of doing right in an unjust world--themes developed to their pinnacle in Peckinpah's later masterpiece, The Wild Bunch.

Listen up chumps, basically the Vicar asked us to edit the parish newsletter this month, we weren't gonna do it at first cos the vicar said 'I want you to channel your energy into doing something creative', which he knows brings back Kurtan's PTSD cos our old woodwork teacher Mr Perkins used to say it to him all the time, and when Kurtan actually DID channel his energy into something creative he managed to sand down some MDF to make a back scratcher and Darren Lacey pointed at it and laughed and called it an 'abomination to woodwork'....

Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley’s bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr Horner - a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain free access to other men’s wives. When he meets the young...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton’s 1913 satire of marriage and money in early-20th century American society. The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming...

Cast your anchor away and set sail for some twangy tunes and patriotic spirit with these vintage broadcasts from the 1958 US Navy Recruiting Service! Buckle up for a short program hosted by none other than legendary country music giants like Ernest Tubb, Jimmy Dean, and Tex Williams. These A-list crooners won't just serenade you with their classic hits, they'll also be sharing tales of the sea, adventure, and the outstanding benefits and training the US Navy has to offer. So grab your sea legs and get ready for a boot-scootin' journey that'll have you humming along and considering setting sail...

Adapted from Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, Our Country’s Good tells the true story of the convicts and marines sent to Australia as part of the first penal colony. An eloquent argument for the redemptive power of theatre, Wertenbaker’s classic drama celebrates the beauty of language – in the slang of the criminal classes and the poetry of the play – and at the same time examines how it is used as an instrument of power.

The Country Media Show brings together writers, broadcasters and videographers who champion country music.The show is hosted by Jonny Brick, who runs A Country Way of Life (countryWOL.com). It begins with a digest of recent happenings in country media, including radio shows, album reviews and interviews, before asking a Focus Question of participants. Each month’s show contains a Focus Media Organisation.

Dust off your cowboy boots and grab your hankie, because Country Style USA is boot-scootin' back into town! Hosted by the smooth-talkin' Cecil Daniels, this vintage radio show is a honky-tonk time capsule packed with the era's finest country and folk music. Tap your toes to twangy tunes from legends like the Tennessee Mountain Boys, the lonesome croons of "The Singing Ranger" Hank Snow, the quick-witted pickin' of Hawkshaw Hawkins, and even the iconic Johnny Cash himself. Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys join the jamboree, along with a whole slew of other musical titans you won't want to ...

A podcast with comedians Aristotle Georgeson (aka Blake Webber) Jake Adams, Griff Pippin & Mark Smalls. Country Club Adjacent is changing the game of golf with a much edgier perspective on where the game is going. With an occasional celebrity comedian guest or professional golfer this podcast is high energy for over an hour every week!

Country Gold Backstage - Unedited interviews from the weekly Country Gold with Terri Clark radio show.

Undiscovered Countries is an actual-play unplanned TTRPG Podcast hosted by Ben Heath, Margaret Clark, and Cam Torres. We have no idea what’s going to happen! Join us! New episodes released every other Monday!

Trojan Women Project presents the refugees and asylum seekers who have fled danger and come to the UK telling you EXACTLY what they escaped and why they are here. For the last ten years we have been helping migrants and refugees tell their stories to the world. Produced by the Trojan Women Project www.trojanwomenproject.org.Hosted by Charlotte Eagar, William Stirling and Luna Laurenti.Made Possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What sets Sippin' On Country apart is our commitment to digging deep into the stories behind the artists. Not just the glamour and the big stages, but the early days, the sacrifices, and the triumphs. We want our followers to understand the hard work and dedication that goes into making music that really moves your soul. And we have fun while doing it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A monthly podcast about the California Country Rock that grew out of the LA music scene in the late 1960's. Telling the history of how we went from "Mr Tambourine Man" to "Hotel California", and sharing a bit of my own story of how I learned to love this music.

Country music, New country artists, song writers, different types of coffee, music videos, musicians, live venues, Recording studios, audio engineers, instruments, sound equipment, interview artists and musicians

Coffee, Country & Cody is the long-running morning show on Nashville's WSM Radio, broadcasting over the air on 650 AM and worldwide on the WSM App and at WSMRadio.com. Bill Cody, who has hosted the show for more than 30 years, leads the team along with his co-host, Amazon Music's Kelly Sutton, a fixture on Nashville radio and television since 2001. Producer Charlie Mattos and content coordinator Annie Ney round out the crew. WSM Radio made its mark on country music history on October 5, 1925. It was on that day that the station hit the airwaves. On November 28 of that same year, the station...

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Singer Songwriter, Jesse Wayne Taylor, has teamed up with his storytelling father, Travis Taylor, to tell some of the best bald headed stories you will be able to get your ears on.