Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3604997/?format=api
{ "id": 3604997, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604997/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T07:33:49-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Don’t Give Up", "track_id": "4f0ce9f7-a7c3-4907-8586-4a90b6d65cdd", "recording_id": "974de7cf-27b8-4b6e-87c5-cd8d8c31cc6d", "artist": "Peter Gabriel", "artist_ids": [ "8e66ea2b-b57b-47d9-8df0-df4630aeb8e5" ], "album": "So", "release_id": "b48d2ecc-64c3-4453-9a05-04662c83e4e5", "release_group_id": "be3cc3e7-bdb0-3c13-a60b-a985b30eb603", "labels": [ "Geffen Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0fadc2ce-f7de-4e27-bbe6-612b317e716b" ], "release_date": "1986-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Written by Peter Gabriel, the song was produced by Daniel Lanois and Peter and engineered by Kevin Killen and Lanois and features the guest vocals of Kate Bush. \n--\nThe song was inspired by a Dorothea Lange photograph, but was also informed by the high levels of unemployment under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher of the 1980s, as Peter told the NME at the time of the release of \"So\":\n\n“The catalyst for ‘Don’t Give Up’ was a photograph I saw by Dorothea Lange, inscribed ‘In This Proud Land’, which showed the dust-bowl conditions during the Great Depression in America. Without a climate of self-esteem it’s impossible to function”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }