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What’s Wrong, America? A 2024 Election Special
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
IE: Inside Europe, 5/19/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: It's gloves off as Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round. Hopes fade of finding those still missing months...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
70 Million: Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-Entry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact - with assistance from our podcast partners, 70 million - we head to the state of Alaska, where rising violent crime an...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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.

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

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


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 01/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Uncertain futures - The COVID-19 pandemic has not only lead to a global health crisis, but also to economic hardships. S...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Two): Hail the Independent & Designated Survivor
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 12: Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Two)
Imagine creating a television series premised on a U.S. Capitol building attack, then watching a less-lethal yet all too real version of that event...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 21:40
Emotion Roadmap John Wood Braver Angels 2 10 21
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Let's Work Together to Make Life Better
John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador for Braver Angels, volunteer citizens committed to respectful dialog and depolarization. He invokes elements ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:29
Canada's Slavery Secret
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Dreamer
From: Israel Story
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David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:17
Voter Info & Making Your Voting Plan
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Karuna Koppula
Who is the Rising American Electorate? Generation Justice talks to The Voter Participation Center, based in Washington D.C., to learn more about ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 17:49
Listening to Our Braver Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
December 30th RERUN - “Edge of Democracy”; Brazil, A Cautionary Tale
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #51: The Right to Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Berlin and Los Angeles share a common problem: homelessness. Producer Caroline Porter reports on topic, which is the focus of the Goethe-Institut L...

Bought by WNYO and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
The Big Pond #24: Being Muslim in the Midwest
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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What is it like to be Muslim nowadays in the Midwest, the so-called Heartland of the US? And how does that reality connect to the one in Germany? O...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 2
Can't Afford the Luxury of Despair
From: Israel Story
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An eight-year-long personal investigation into the chain of events that lead to the assassination lead to, of all places, Israel's most popular rap...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 11:46
IE: Inside Europe, 3/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today’s program: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson explains why London thinks Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on a forme...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 16:26
Being a Woman at Utah's Capitol
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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KUER's Nicole Nixon has been looking into the sexual dynamics at Utah's State House. She spoke with some of the women--legislators and lobbyists--...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 18:00
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