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Episode 109: Homewrecker
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 23:08
Episode 108: The Numbers
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 103: Get Out of My House
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in Atlanta called Little Five Points. The home be...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 24:56
Meet the 4th Grade Teacher Earning $70,000
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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It’s hard to keep teachers in Utah's Monument Valley. It's beautiful there, sure, but you're hours away from a real grocery store or a movie theate...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Vote-less, not voiceless: Dreamers reshape Arizona politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Perez working at City Hall, Credit: Valeria Fernandez
From civil disobedience to civic accountability, youth that can’t vote are making the voice of the Latino community heard in local politics and at ...

Bought by WDBM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 10:06
  • Purchases: 3
A Lifetime of Caregiving: Mom and Uncle Harold
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mom and Uncle Harodl, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
Most often family members are the ones that step up and provide care when a parent or loved one needs it. According to the Family Caregiver Allianc...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:39
Hum...
From: Terrascope Radio
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A short, evocative audio postcard made while visiting power-generation facilities in northern California.

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:22
Philippine Squatters Use Their Political Weight to Win Permanent Homes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Squatters' settlement along a Manila, Philippines waterway , Credit: Aurora Almendral
Reporter Aurora Almendral visits one squatter settlement in the Philippine and finds out how one community leveraged their political power into hom...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota: A "Minnesota Song of the Week" feature about Rex Daisy, Newly Reissued Music from Podipto, and more.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Podipto: Lineup - 1970 - 1973: Steve Rundquist, Jack Sundrud, John Collins, Dan Lund, Karen Lund
In this edition of Centerstage Minnesota we hear a "Minnesota Song of the Week," feature on Rex Daisy, newly reissued music from 70's Minnesota ban...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:50:33
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota Feature: A Primer from Charlie Pulkrabek on Funk and Soul Singer Sonny Knight
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota Features
Caption: Funk and Soul Musician: Sonny Knight, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek - 10/25/14
Sonny Knight considers himself blessed. If that's true, he is being rewarded for his positive attitude, and incredible amount of patience. It began...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota: A Charmin Michelle Feature, Sam Miltich & Clearwater Hot Club, Erik Koskinen, Barbara Jean, and More.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle, Credit: Tom Corcoran
This edition of Centerstage Minnesota includes a feature on Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle. Music also from Sam Miltich & Clearwater Hot Club, Chas...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:47:35
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota Feature: Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota Features
Caption: Charmin Michelle, Credit: JuliAnne Jonker
In this feature, Charlie Pulkrabek highlight's Twin Cities based Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle. Short excerpts of Sam Miltich interviewing Charmin...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota Feature: Reina del Cid
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota Features
Caption: Reina del Cid and the Cidizens, Credit: Desiree Forget
Reina del Cid is one of those people that would be wildly successful in whatever she chose to do with her life. Lucky for music fans she's chosen p...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row
From: Radio Diaries
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For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:55
  • Purchases: 4
The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: The First Minnesota Finns" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Harvey Barberg of Cokato Stands By the One-room Cabin Where Ancestors Spent Their First Winter
For the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series on Minnesota Finns. This is our last segment and perhaps ironically -- o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
Bonne Chance Comrades
From: Amira Anne Glickman
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This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 52:58
"Finns In Minnesota: The 1907 Mesabi Range Strike" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Iron Ore Car
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Saunas" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Chris Niskanen with his sauna, Credit: Britt Aamodt
The first Finnish immigrants to arrive in Minnesota settled here sometime around the middle of the 19th century and the close of the Civil War. Min...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cannibals in Papua New Guinea
From: Jake Warga
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A sound-rich and thoughtful piece questioning who the actual cannibals in Papua New Guinea are: the locals or the tourists visiting them....

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Texas Music History: Erbie Bowser
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Ike Reynolds
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of September (9/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped establish the first Baptist mus...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:43
The Carsten Höller Experience
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Carsten Höller's Mirror Carousel, Singing Canaries Mobile, and Untitled (Slide) at the New Museum in NYC., Credit: New Museum
Art exhibit, amusement park, or laboratory? You decide.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
Inaugural Whites 100 Challenges Athletes in Remote Alaska
From: Emily Schwing
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38 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, the first ever 100 mile wilderness adventure race in the White Mountains National Recreation Area tested athle...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
Guerrilla Gardening in London
From: Kyle Boelte
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Under the cover of darkness, illicit gardeners work to beatify London.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Vocalo.org, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 04, 2008
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 3