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The Mothers of Gynecology
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #40: The Farm
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Rediscovered Radio: WYSO’s Lost Tapes
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:33
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Relations
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
Caption: Ellen Choy-Asians4BlackLives, Credit: Brooke Anderson Photography
Crossing East: Relations is one-hour documentary special produced by Dmae Roberts, executive producer of MediaRites’ Crossing East series with Roby...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 5
The Working Tapes: Jockey
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
An Airplane for Everyone
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:22
Indie Influentials (Hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
Episode 6: The Journey Continues
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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Veteran Matters continues with part 2 of this series. Host Peter Hilton introduces a new group of veterans, and we learn what roles animals may or ...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 2
The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
From: N Lorde
Caption: The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
In-depth documentary on the Story of Black America - from slavery to the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 17:23
  • Purchases: 1
A Transgender Childhood
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 4
Forest to Desert
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Laika, November 3, 1957
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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A true, Russian space hero died today. As a matter of fact, the very first Russian space hero. And as it turns out, she was the first space martyr....

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Roger Arthur Peterson (Buddy Holly Pilot), February 3, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The Buddy Holly pilot. Everybody knows how Roger Peterson died, but almost nobody knows who he was.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Is This an Exercise?
From: Julie Shapiro
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Apocalyptic tv, the sounds of The End and the quirk (and power) of memory.

Bought by WDBM, XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 10, 2008
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 4
The Shift of Land part 13...Ritual and Tradition
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the last progr...

Bought by KUNM and KENW


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Promo - Happy Birthday Stan Freberg
From: Jeff Brown
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Promo for Stan Freberg radio special

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WCQS, KUSP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: A Diary of War and Liberation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An 80- year-old Dutchman opens up the diary he kept as a teenager during the German occupation of Holland and the liberation by Canadian troops fo...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 1
Lost & Found Sound and Beyond: Hour One
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Lost & Found Sound and Beyond
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Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" is the second anthology of greatest hits from the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound radio series, heard over ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUT, KOSU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 18
The WTC Construction Guides: The Building Stewardesses
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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They were called "Construction Guides" : friendly co-eds in mini-skirted uniforms posted at corner kiosks on the WTC site to inform an inquiring pu...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WHYY, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Hollands' Black Page
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Former dutch veterans of the colonial conflict in Indonesia talk of their guilty past and of atonement.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 29:02
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Adam Allington
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A small farming community in northern Maine reconnects with it's history as a WWII POW camp

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: May 31, 2004
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
From: Jay Allison
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Award-winning documentary from Lost & Found Sound, produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 36