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Not Buying Into Food Woo
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
03 "Celebrate Life In Reverse" [Alex’s Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If you staged your own funeral, what would your friends and family say about you? This SUPERHUMANS story will tickle your soul by exploring what i...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 35:49
How does an architect of Facebook's biz model reckon with what he built?
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 43:36
LAURA LOOMER | BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️ EP 117
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Conservative Journalist/Activist, Laura Loomer, discusses her humble beginnings at Project Veritas, the Tweet to Ilhan Omar, which lead to her Twit...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:10:02
BPP 115 | ROGER STONE — BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
A journalist reckons with truth
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Alternative facts. Fake news. How are journalists grappling with this moment? Dive into one journalist’s reckoning with truth.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 44:42
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
The defection of a Roger Ailes warrior
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The only paid climate skeptic who ever flipped
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 41:51
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
Freeman Vines: The Hanging Tree Guitar
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:15
From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan: Immigrant Communities Upholding Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Blues Unlimited #274 - A Conversation With The Blues (Language Advisory)
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Ep 52 - Roberta Grimes | Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 52:54
Painting from the Ashes
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter. His paintings aren't controversial, but his medium is.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
From: WMMT
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 1
Veterans of Occupation: From Iraq to Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Veterans Join Occupy Wall Street, Credit: Iraq Veterans Against War
On this edition, we bring you the voices of Veterans from Occupy Wall Street and a special report on veterans returning home from war and the strug...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 3
Tasmanian Devil on the Brink of Extinction
From: Jake Warga
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Travels around Tasmania to learn about the fate of the little Devil

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Imagine 2050 Podcast - November 2008
From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast
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This month we are in San Francisco, California exploring what it means to be American through those involved in the struggle for same-sex marriage ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2009
  • Length: 09:49