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How a stuck valve almost destroyed the State of Pennsylvania

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
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The disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, was inevitable. Reporter Schuyler Mitchell reports on her investigation into the deregulation which is puttin...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:12
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Addiction expert Dr. Nick Kardaras, author of the best-selling book "Glow Kids" talks about how our kids are suffering psychologically from too muc...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
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After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
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June is Pride Month! Today we have stories to celebrate the history, courage, and diversity of the LGBT community.

Bought by WPSU, RadioStPete Florida, New Hampshire Public Radio, KRVS, KUHF and more


  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: At the 1996 Dem National Convention, at the beginning of the Platform debate, women protested for the right to choose..., Credit: New York Times, August 28, 1996
As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:13
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In these times, a poem for the places we find resilience.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Getting vaccinated and wearing a mask may be all there is to making someone happy in Covid-19 times.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: ...wide river as ever..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Supreme Court decision to ignore the inhumane aspects of the Texas Abortion law reminds us to look to the places where human connection is val...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 08:17
Caption: There's a quote from the Bible I've taken to lately..., Credit: Edgar Cook
There are many many examples of malice these days. And then there are the opportunities to do good.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2021
  • Length: 03:28
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How do we get the right information without falling down the rabbit hole of misinformation? In our final installment of series on vaccine hesitanc...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 57:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Thomas Edison and what his light did- understood through an American Sonnet.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing; American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook (Finishing Line, 2020))
In the large, large universe, the mind's eye still sees what it will.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 1
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What's in a name? We reflect on where we belong and what it means to be American, especially in the wake of anti-Asian hate crimes.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 52:02
Caption: ...your business in life, to do good and to do good for evil..., Credit: Susan Cook
My father often said his mother always told him, "Do good for evil." It's drawn from the Bible "This is your calling, your business in life- to do...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
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The Syrian people are caught in the crossfire and have essentially lost their country. A decade of war has killed an estimated 600,000 people and d...

Bought by Classic107.3 and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets" by Susan Cook, Credit:  Shermans.com, GulfofMaineBooks@gmail.com
From America's Sonnet, "This sonnet's yours America, but you will not take all my loves, turn my Black, brown, blue."

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: :57
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Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
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My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:54

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: He didn't do it alone., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, the ode to 2020 and caucasian, male, non-mask wearing arrogant reality - like that of the now closed Institute...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1