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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
Clyde Langford: Bacon
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Clyde Langford recounts the fears and fruits of seeking equality...of bacon.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 08:10
300-Biggest Ear
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China has built and is operating the world's largest Radio telescope.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KGUA, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Occupy: 5 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Members of the 1% navigate cross-class relationships
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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In parallel but separate tales, Michelle and Abe inherited immense wealth at a young age. For many years, they didn't talk about it, or know what t...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
***FREE*** "I Shook Bernie's Hand" - Bernie Sanders Special
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
Caption: Joe Bev in the press box gathering sound for his Bernie Sanders special., Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah Silverman, Lorie Kellogg, and Tim...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
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
Sexism at the Five-and-Dime: Discrediting Women for a Dollar or A Dime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In my state, this week, leaping off the lower right hand corner of the Front Page of the state’s largest newspaper was this “Educator who won one...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:42
Former FBI Agent, Coleen Rowley Talks About 9/11 Intelligence Failures and GWOT
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Coleen Rowley
Former FBI Special Agent and whistleblower, Coleen Rowley, joins us to discuss the greatest intelligence failure in American History. She had a fr...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 57:42
Truth About America No. 3 - David Talbot on Democracy Now!
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett
Since we couldn't get David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and author of Devil's Chessboard, I borrowed portions of Amy Goodman's interview with him ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
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
188-Deep Listen
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will 100 million dollars in grant funds be enough for humans to discover a tiny needle in the cosmic haystack?

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WYAP, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Unspun Looks at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich, Biologist, Environmentalist and Author
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Paul Ehrlich
Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 1
185-So Many Possibilities
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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New research has revealed a truly mind boggling number of potentially habitable locations in the Universe.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
LIVE LAW 10: Prison Break
From: LIVE LAW
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“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 13:10
Unspun with Cohost Pamela Spoto, Looks at the So-Called Criminal Justice System with Prof. Michael J. Coyle
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Michael J. Coyle
Dr. Coyle is currently Associate Professor, in the Political Science Department of California State University, Chico. He teaches courses on "Pris...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
LIVE LAW 8: Three Strikes
From: LIVE LAW
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“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 22:40
LIVE LAW 5: One Confederate Flag
From: LIVE LAW
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In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 1
LIVE LAW 1: Stupid Motions
From: LIVE LAW
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Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 1
BP Five Years Later: Deepwater Horizon and the Cost of Oil
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Louisiania bayou
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not everyone is “back to normal.” On this edition, we follow BP’s trail fro...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"The Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue" Live From The Schomburg Center
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:59:01
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
Unspun Reclaims King's Legacy with Cat Brooks of Onyx Organizing Committee
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Cat Brooks
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:54
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

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