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PRESENT meets PAST at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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Most Burners don’t know much about the history of the land or its original inhabitants: the Pyramid Lake Paiute. Reporter Lucy Kang enlightens them.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:09
Paul M. Lisnik– "Juries: Fair or Corruptible"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Hidden Jury, and Other Tactics Lawyers Use to Win What happens when a guilty person is acquitted of crime? Or worse, when an innocent person i...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Correcting Race
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
Gustav Mahler: Turmoil and Triumph
From: Charlie Warren
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"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world," said Mahler. Hear unique historical comment and quotes from biographers, authors, conductor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 5
Steve Post-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Steve P{ost
Interview with film maker Rosemarie Reed about Free Form Radio Pioneer, Stevie Post on her documentary "Playing In The FM Band-The Steve Post Story...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:04
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 35: My Penny
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 32:36
Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the statio...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:50
Episode 168: 48 Hours, Part 2
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report tha...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 43:40
Korematsu v United States & Japanese American Internment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WCMU Michigan, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 14
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A More Perfect Union: A Musical Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 2-Hour version
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime championing her two passions: equal rights and classical music, often referencing the si...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KWAX, Hawaii Public Radio, WWFM, WKNO and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:30
  • Purchases: 23
The Return
From: Kate Madara
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Snaking along the perimeter of an apartment complex, amaranth grows to harken to a peculiar sound emanating from the clothesline as a scar heals th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 12:53
Studs Terkel Plays John Prine & Steve Goodman (1975) from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Conversations with John Prine from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
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Terkel comments and presents musical performance by Steve Goodman and songwriter John Prine Interview Date: 29 July 1975.

Bought by KFCF FM, KSFR, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Prairie Public, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 55:38
  • Purchases: 5
Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich
From: New Letters on the Air
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This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....

Bought by WRKF, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
C-HIT The WorkUp: Lost Lives - Janet Rice
From: Lynne DeLucia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is Lost Lives, a series of podcasts presented by the Connecticut Health I-Team's The Workup. Lost Lives examines the starkest health disparity...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 10:53
Operation Hulda
From: Israel Story
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In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 41:32
  • Purchases: 1
THE PAPER KEY
From: Kate Madara
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Anne’s whisper became a long silk thread, spun around a butterfly. Caterpillar all too eager to wrap it from inside its body around like a cocoon....

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 11:08
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
From: Arndt Peltner
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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 2
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 44:34
Maxine A Voice From The Past
From: Glen Lasley
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This Is The Voice Of Maxine Who Past Away In 2008

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Elana Rozenman – Jewish, Muslim & Christian Understanding
From: Barry Vogel
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In June, 2002 I overheard an American woman now living in Israel passionately describe her belief that teaching children to be suicide bombers is t...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1590 (Hour 1 & 2) - 0/20/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Building on a legacy set down by predecessors, Phil Dwyer begins on tenor sax, Karen Lovely lends her original voice and music to the blues. From o...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 5
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Organist, Dr. Lonnie Smith
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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In these moments, we learn about the (soulful) power of the organ, especially in the hands of Dr. Lonnie Smith.

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 60: Finding Sarah and Philip
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 1