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Free speech is not the norm, and even in a country that explicitly protects speech in its foundational documents, censorship can still creep into o...
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 58:45
America's East Asian allies are scampering to dance with China, wrecking US strategy towards china in the process. Will Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton b...
- Added: Nov 06, 2016
- Length: 04:20
- Added: Nov 06, 2016
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 1
- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War
- Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late
- The lesser-known history of...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War
- Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late
- The lesser-known history of...
Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, KWMR, KWSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 9
Reading about the past sometimes gives us the impression that the Vietnam War was inevitable. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall...
Bought by WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 10
President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 04:50
The Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the construction of the 1200 mile Dakota Access oil pipeline because it threatens and places at enormous r...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 06:15
In honor of the upcoming Presidential race, The River Is Wide presents a melding of our favorite features. A Citizen's Guide, A Sixty Second Moral ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2016
- Length: 01:34
The Dakota Access Pipeline expansion and the protests against it have garnered local, national and world-wide attention since summer. In this seg...
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- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 02:53
The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...
- Added: Oct 22, 2016
- Length: 04:49
The anniversary of the loss of my childhood friend who died from suicide just passed. She, like many women, was sexually abused and never told an...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 07:59
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks when men engage in sexploitation whose responsibility is it to refuse to sanction or accept as ‘just the wa...
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
The then director of the Harvard Eating Disorders program gave a talk to a small group of eating disorder mental health providers in my work town. ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2016
- Length: 07:33
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
Child prodigies need the chance to find themselves- the moment they become ‘spellbound’ because they have found the field their gift has been looki...
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 07:04
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 02:40
I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 06:17
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
I went to a performance "designed to raise awareness surrounding gun violence and its victims" the program said. The Colorado-based modern dance c...
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- Added: Sep 11, 2016
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 1
Today The River Is Wide introduces a new specialty item : the two and a half minute Conspiracy Theory. We don’t want to ramble. We’ll keep it brief...
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 03:14
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
In Maine, recently, an internationally known annual road race was held . 6338 runners raced. One runner in the group of the first 183 spent a full...
- Added: Aug 14, 2016
- Length: 05:01
In my state, a few years ago a bright, articulate local woman ran for the state House of Representatives. Her campaign slogan was ‘Fight Like A Gi...
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 05:32
