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Dusty Ray Simmons, the multi-instrumentalist and soul singer-songwriter hailing from Richmond, VA, joins me as my esteemed guest. During our conver...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption:  Dr. Safiya Noble
Is your search engine racist? Listen to Dr. Safiya Noble’s research on how search engines reinforce racial bias.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:44
Caption: Ella Murphy (2019), Credit: Danielle Barnum Photography
One musical theatre major reflects on the support of her family, and how things have changed for her since COVID-19.

  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 09:02
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One day Adam Braseel got a phone call from his mother. She said that a man in Grundy County, Tennessee had been murdered, and the police thought Ad...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 37:14
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Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When she did, she felt relieved to finally take them ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 30:57
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After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’s not their job. The coroner takes the body, the po...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 19:11
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Today, we take you back to the month of April, in the year 2012. That’s when we set out on a road trip from Austin, Texas. We’re aiming to find out...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:29
  • Purchases: 2
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
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There were thousands of organizers, activists and local social justice leaders around the world who died in 2018. As we do every December, we brin...

Bought by KVSC and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For decades, Israeli radio stations ignored Mizrahi tunes and exclusively played music rooted in Ashkenazi traditions. That began to change in the ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 21:07
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The story of a song that began the music careers of two Israelis each representing vastly different versions of what the future of Israel may hold

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 32:43
Caption: Bryan Wells, finder of the wreakage, with some of what's left on Emigrant Peak, Credit: Adrian Sanchez Gonzalez/Bozeman Daily Chronicle
When the pilot of a plane saw a fireball explode on Emigrant Peak north of Yellowstone National Park, the dispatcher called out: Fido 15! Fido 15! ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
  • Purchases: 1
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It's not uncommon to pay over a hundred dollars for a math or science textbook, and new editions are published frequently. For students struggling...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 16:56
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LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson was a noted storyteller. He asked Mormons to be kind, honest, and to serve others. But when it came to cont...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 19:30
Caption: URS Corporation archaeologists excavate at a site beside I-95 in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia., Credit: Mariel Carr
Where can you find a teacup, the molar of a goat, and an arrowhead all in one place? At an urban archaeology site, that’s where.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 36:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: At the rodeo , Credit: Vanessa Rancaño
A tight knit group of queer cowboys has found a way to live the country and Western lifestyle in their own way. Producer Vanessa Rancaño brings us...

Bought by KVNF, Marfa Public Radio, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Space fans give SS Endeavour a thousand-camera salute, Credit: Marcus Teply
Space shuttle Endeavour took a final victory lap over California landmarks Friday, piggybacked on top of a NASA 747 on its way to retirement at the...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KMUZ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
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
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A soundscape using elements of home and inspired by the idea of mindfulness.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: J.S. Bach
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :44
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The extraordinary popularity of the pilgrimage to Lourdes 150 years on.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
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The extraordinary popularity of the pilgrimage to Lourdes 150 years on.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 14:48
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International Fireworks Contest, Macau China

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, KVNF, Prairie Public, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 14