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Juneteenth We Reflect on Black History in Utah
From: KRCL
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Celebrating Juneteenth, Robert Burch, Founder & Executive Director of the Sema Hadithi Foundation shares his take on the holiday and ways his organ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 1
David Hill discusses "The Vapors"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:16
The Big Pond #51: The Right to Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Berlin and Los Angeles share a common problem: homelessness. Producer Caroline Porter reports on topic, which is the focus of the Goethe-Institut L...

Bought by WNYO and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #48: Legacies of the Berlin Wall
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 4
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
The Big Pond #25: US-American Students in German Universities
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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For some US students, escalating costs are putting college out of reach – whereas in Germany higher education is considered a right, tuition is nor...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #24: Being Muslim in the Midwest
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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What is it like to be Muslim nowadays in the Midwest, the so-called Heartland of the US? And how does that reality connect to the one in Germany? O...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #23: Sorting Out Recycling
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Most of the Western world has a waste problem, and recycling has been pushed by policymakers as one of the best ways to combat it. In Baltimore and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 16:41
  • Purchases: 1
Right Relationship with Mother Earth - Dr. Jim Collins and Peggy Rebol on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KMUD


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Life with HIV: Success without a Cure?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: AIDS awareness painting in Chimoio, Mozambique. , Credit: Courtesy of Flickr user Ton Rulkens.
Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, sophisticated drug cocktails known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 38:57
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Finn Halls" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Cokato Temperence Hall, Credit: Britt Aamodt
When traveling through Minnesota's Finn country, you'll see a good number of Finnish-style log cabins, a lot of saunas, and, if you look hard, a ha...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Crosby's Communist Mayor" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 17: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, Karikatura - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa
Bobby speaks with Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, founder and president of the Italian American Museum in New York City. Dr. Scelsa has a doctorate in sociol...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:08
Byran Crigler of Herbal Turtle Farms Talks About Sustainable Foods
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Owners of Herbal Turtle Farms: Kate Foerster with partner Bryan Crigler and son Ayden
Local farmer and President of The Winona Farmers Market, Bryan Crigler stops by to inform us on Community Supported Agriculture, the importance of ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Mary Strother's toned and hand painted photography
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
Military Combat Cameramen and Women
From: Jake Warga
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We have seen a lot of pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. Chances are that many of them were actually taken by the military. C...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 4
Virtuoso Voices - Frank Peter Zimmermann (Wife with Strings)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Frank Peter Zimmermann
Musicians often become “one” with their instrument – it’s not just an expensive and valuable piece of equipment they use on the job. For some, lik...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: :21
Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (After the Rain)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Yuja Wang
The title of Yuja Wang’s new recording is “Transformation.” It’s a fitting title – especially for one of the Scarlatti keyboard sonatas, which she...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: :22
US AID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
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US AID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah discusses the mission of US AID in the Obama Administration and it's role in tackeling world hunger, the AIDS e...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 53:59
Virtuoso Voices - Carol Wincenc (Baby Mozart)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Carol Wincenc, Credit: Cori Wells Braun
Call it precocious or simply amazing, Mozart wrote some remarkable music when he was 8-years old. Flutist Carol Wincenc says age is truly relative...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: :24
Remembering To Forget In The Digital Age
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 58:02
Virtuoso Voices - Herbert Blomstedt (8 vs. 9)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Herbert Blomstedt
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is subtitled the “Ode to Joy.” His Symphony No. 8 doesn’t have a subtitle or nickname, but conductor Herbert Blomstedt ...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1