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HOUR ONE: "If Your Clothes Could Talk" - Unless you're a nudist, you probably wear clothes. But if they could talk, what would they say about you? ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "The Power Of Pleasure And Joy" - Joy, pleasure and delight feel good. But are they also politically powerful? HOUR TWO: "The Third Act...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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After moving from Cologne, Germany, to New York City, our producer Thomas Reintjes had trouble adjusting to walking in the bustling metropolis. Tra...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 24:08
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "What Sparks Creativity?" - Nathaniel Mary Quinn channeled his abandonment into art and became a celebrated painter. This hour, we'll exa...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:57
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It seems like there are more people nowadays with tattoos than there used to be – of the body art is hidden, but most are quite visible. Men and wo...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
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For everything the West Bank barrier represents to people on both sides, it’s easy to forget that it is an actual physical structure. And as Joel S...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Lisa from Austin describes postcard activism projects in Texas and around the country. She explains how postcards can help get out the vote and in...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
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Jim Jarmusch still seems, at least to me, like the daring young innovator of independent film, even though he’s been writing and directing movies f...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
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In 1913 Budapest, a young woman searches relentlessly for the secrets of her own family, in a film that dramatizes a premonition of the old Europea...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:31
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Ari Aster’s latest horror film depicts a group of young Americans encountering a strange pagan community in Sweden.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
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HOUR ONE: "Difficult Summer Beach Reads" - The summer reading lists are here. But if you have time for a new book, why not read something more subs...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
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English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 09:07
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HOUR ONE: "Born, Again" - We've all been born. But some of us, through a number of ways, experience rebirth. What does it mean to be born again? ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
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George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:24
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HOUR ONE: "Listen To Your City" - What's it like to explore a city with your ears? Depends on how your listen. HOUR TWO: "Magical Thinking" - Doe...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Pla...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:24
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HOUR ONE: "If Your Clothes Could Talk" - Unless you're a nudist, you probably wear clothes. But if they could talk, what would they say about you? ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
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In this installment of Paddle Minnesota, Karen-lisa Forbes connects the threads between a wooly Arctic mammal…the meditation of spinning yarn… and ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:54
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:39
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Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
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Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:45
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A group of Mexican immigrants, as yet undocumented, live together in a crowded apartment in Brooklyn, work hard, and play soccer in an amateur league.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:45
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The Little Stranger is what you would call a haunted house mystery, although that description may already give an inaccurate impression of the film.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
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Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
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HOUR ONE: "What Sparks Creativity?" - Nathaniel Mary Quinn channeled his abandonment into art and became a celebrated painter. This hour, we'll exa...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58