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LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
Hisako Hasegawa
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:55
Cesar Irizarry
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
Angel Garcia
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 120: The Tunnel
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 20:27
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 119: He's Still Neutral
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as he can remember, but he isn...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 116: Jessica and the Bunny Ranch
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocumented sex worker. Today, we get two more views ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 38:34
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 111: Silvon Simmons
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:22
Episode 102: Ride-Along
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:50
Fallen Heroes of 2018
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Iron and Gold
From: Israel Story
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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
Can Tiny Homes Solve Utah's Big Housing Problems?
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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On the next More to Say, we’re picking up on a conversation we started last week about affordable housing in Utah. This time it’s all about tiny ho...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Does "Affordable Housing" Really Mean?
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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It’s no secret that rent around Salt Lake City is really high. And if you drive around downtown, you’ll see tons of new apartment complexes under c...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 17:26
  • Purchases: 1
Mentally Ill, Stuck in Jail
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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If you commit a crime in Utah and a judge says you’re too mentally ill to defend yourself in court, you’ll get sent to Utah State Hospital in Provo...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
Utah Jail Deaths
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Inmates in Utah jails die at a higher rate than any other state in the country. And the secrecy surrounding the issue is just as disturbing as the...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 15:20
Parenting From Prison, Inside Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Marni and Jim Family, Credit: Marni Corrigan
When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing stru...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
More to Say: President Trump & Public Lands
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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During his first official visit to Utah, President Trump announced the largest cutback to national monument land in U.S. history. Bears Ears and G...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1