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Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:32
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
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The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 22:14
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WLIW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WEZU, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, WUGA (part of GPB), WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: :30
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
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Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...

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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:20:46
Caption: Conor Casey & Eva Urcia
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event o...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
Caption: Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer, Credit: BarryLopez.com
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:12
Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Loren Eiseley
In the first of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in Nature and the ocean, host Peter Neill highlights the work of 20th ce...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramsey discusses publishing, PM Press, and that ideas matter. PM Press seeks to create radical and stimulating fiction a...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:06
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
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The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
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At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Director and Writer Don Thacker, Author Dr. Frank Romano, and The Finest Hours i...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring our New York correspondent Chrissy McIntyre, Author Chip Wagar, and Cuba Straits...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:41
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the New Zealand band Ivy Blue, Author Martin Lastrapes, and Night Fall by New Yo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:31
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When I moved to Calcutta from San Francisco, I’d often marvel, that for a city of 4 and half million, everyone seems to know everyone. But writer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1