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Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
IE: Inside Europe, 5/19/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: It's gloves off as Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round. Hopes fade of finding those still missing months...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 01/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Uncertain futures - The COVID-19 pandemic has not only lead to a global health crisis, but also to economic hardships. S...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Life During COVID
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Canada's Slavery Secret
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Listening to Our Braver Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Siena Schoelen
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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My name is Siena and I am a student at the University of Arizona. I am double majoring in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences and Neuroscience. I ...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:40
Marisa Lester
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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Marisa Lester the lovely and amazing Assistant Program Director from UBRP, joins Bridgitte Thum on the air to talk about what’s going on with stude...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:31
December 30th RERUN - “Edge of Democracy”; Brazil, A Cautionary Tale
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Adam Carl
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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Adam talks about his work with The Hopi Environmental Project. A collaboration with the Hopi Tribe and University of Arizona.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, Dr. Rasheed Part One
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
Mentally Ill, Stuck in Jail
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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If you commit a crime in Utah and a judge says you’re too mentally ill to defend yourself in court, you’ll get sent to Utah State Hospital in Provo...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 3/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today’s program: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson explains why London thinks Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on a forme...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
The Authoritarian Creep
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
As a follow-up to last week’s program, “The Elected Coup,” tonight we confront The Authoritarian Creep.

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 1
We Decline: Inaugurate the Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As we head into the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, a local group says “NO, in Thunder”: No to the erosion of civil liberties and the...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:35
Sharing Patchwork: The Quilts of Southwest China
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)
The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Resistance and Resilience: The Cultural Legacy of the Black Panther Party
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Refa Senay
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
On Police Force
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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One telling thing Sheriff Jim Kennedy says about the individual officers in the policing situation, “We laugh among ourselves, you can send some of...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:39
The true cost of fast fashion: a look inside Los Angeles sweatshops
From: Making Contact
Caption: Santee Alley , Credit: Ana Gremard / Used Under CC/ flickr
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll take you on a trip through LA’s garment district, notorious for sweatshop conditions, abuse, and the outrig...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why powerful men cheat, chronicles of raising a gay son, behind the scenes on election night, spa vacations for pets & wine pairings
From: Julio Gonzalez
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Segment 1: Terry Orbuch/relationship expert Segment 2 and 3:John Schwartz/gay son Segment 4: Dave Wasserman/elections Segment 5: Bob Vetere/pamper...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Wedding Etiquette
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Wedding season is upon us, which brings joy, excitement, and a bit of angst. The Babes are thrilled to speak with Lizzie Post, Emily Post's great-g...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:10
Pam McKissick Without Reserve - Therapy Dogs In The Courtroom
From: Auction Network Productions
Series: Pam McKissick Without Reserve
Caption: Pam McKissick Without Reserve, Credit: Auction Network Productions
This episode is about "Therapy Dogs in the Courtroom" but it’s much more than that. It’s the story of changing the system from within, leveling the...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:25
  • Purchases: 1