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This week on the show: Ordinary people, extraordinary times: DW’s Nick Conolly shares snapshots from Ukraine. Risk assessment: NATO weighs up its ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:43
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit:  NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Just as a pandemic 'ends,' a (potentially cataclysmic) war of aggression begins — with no end in sight.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: We ask a climate economist if Putin’s war in Ukraine could see the world fast-track a switch to renewables. From the South...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Religious tolerance in danger - Inspiring the struggle for freedom: new excavations solve a decades old mystery about US ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Russia's war in Ukraine is having impacts right across the continent - some forseen, others unexpected. We've endeavoured t...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Is it already too late? In a week of landmark environmental announcements, we ask: is it too late to halt the climate cr...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Making Cape Town's Hanover Park a better place - Unemployment in Cape Town's neighborhood Hanover Park is high, gun shots ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Ukraine’s defiant stand against Russian invasion is re-shaping Europe. We’ll be bringing you perspectives from a continent ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: TESS Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Got omicron twice? - There is more than one kind of omicron. And data has just come out on whether you might get infecte...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: For many coca Farmers in Colombia, it is far from simple to stop producing coca for drugs. Why protecting wildlife clashes...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Climate change's encroaching toll - Climate change can seem far away from our daily lives. But behind headlines about me...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Russia-Ukraine war. UK sanctions on Russia. Russia gas. The mood in Russia. How ordinary people are struggling to get b...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Over 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014., Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: We get a sobering breakdown on the extreme weather events facing most Indians amid the unfolding climate crisis. A climate...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: New hopes & new beginnings - Children from La Reunion were brought to children's homes under the guise of getting them a ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week’s programme: Just what exactly has Russia massed at the Ukrainian border? Poland welcomes NATO troops, but tensions over the rule of l...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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A listen of a recording from 1959 that resurrected the career of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins.

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we tackle a few thorny subjects. In South Africa, we look at poaching – not of animals, but of plants! Plants that could be sitting on y...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: who is Russia’s Vladimir Putin really, and what might he be capable of? Ukrainians gear up to fight off invasion. Germany’s ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59