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We Are Comcast!
From: The Daily Feed
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Max FaTass as the spokesman

  • Added: Mar 14, 2005
  • Length: 01:35
The Jackson DeLay
From: The Daily Feed
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The legal story of the day

  • Added: Mar 13, 2005
  • Length: 01:37
Home Planet: The Temporary Green of Spring
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Writer Cheryl-Anne Millsap reflects on the meaning of being "green."

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: In The Mood...For A Good Book.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Paternalism
From: Talking History
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Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
No Turning Back
From: Talking History
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Interview with Estelle Freedman, author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women. Commentary: Spinning the Casualties: ...

Bought by KQED and KUHB


  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Menace As Great -- or Greater -- Than Steroids
From: Dick Meister
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Smokeless tobacco is threatening the health of major league baseball players and millions of others.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Guantanamo Commercial
From: The Daily Feed
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Targeting prisoners on their captive cable system

  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 01:37
Cada's Texas Toyota
From: The Daily Feed
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A local car dealer commercial with overtones of cowboy politics.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 01:49
All Boats Sink Equally
From: The Daily Feed
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Social Security Privatization

  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 01:41
Transforming Electricity
From: The Daily Feed
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Frank Benlin and Max Knobny read a transcript of Enron types.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 01:40
Leaving on a Rather Low Note
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Janensch on the Media
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Commentary on Dan Rather's departure at CBS

Bought by KRFC


  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Lessons of the CIO
From: Dick Meister
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The CIO's history offers important lessons for those currently trying to revitalize the labor movement .

  • Added: Mar 01, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
In Defense of Bad Weather
From: Guy Hand
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A good natured defense of bad weather.

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WGCU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2005
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Rebecca's Name
From: Jenny Asarnow
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Rebecca, her many names and corresponding identities

Bought by PRX Remix, KVNF, Public Interactive, and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 4
National Poetry Month Commentary
From: Brian Beatty
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A humorous look at the rhyming, if not cruelest, month.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WKMS, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 3
Funny Business
From: Brian Beatty
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How funny can a guy learn to be for $100?

  • Added: Feb 12, 2005
  • Length: 04:31
A June Commentary
From: Brian Beatty
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It's one straight guy's decidedly absurdist, decidedly liberal look at Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2005
  • Length: 02:49
The St. Patrick's Day Parade, Dublin, 1965
From: Jackson Braider
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The Irish in 1965 felt differently about St. Patrick's Day

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSQM 91.5 FM, Spokane Public Radio, KUT, and WUAL


  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 5
What a fellowship!
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A young man's visit to his Godmother's African-American Baptist church

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Feb 01, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1
Visions at (New) Scotland Yard; "The "Black" Museum / '999' / Dickie Dill"
From: Herb Malsman
Series: Visions...A Series Of Visits To (Almost) Everywhere!
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Visions visits (New) Scotland Yard's "Black" Museum

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2005
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
On the Set: UnSolved Mysteries; "The Life and Death of Dr. Frank Olson"
From: Herb Malsman
Series: Visions...A Series Of Visits To (Almost) Everywhere!
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In 1953, prominent "cold-war" biochemist Dr. Frank Olson, died in New York City, under suspicious circumstances.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2005
  • Length: 02:30:35
Our Energy Future: The Strategic Initiative of Our Era
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
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This prescient piece, recorded in January 2005, deserves a listen today at a moment when the United States can choose to break with the Oil Economy...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WXXI Rochester, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KDNK, and KAOS


  • Added: Jan 29, 2005
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 5
Will Pizza Carry a Union Label?
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on unionizing pizza delivery drivers.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:32
Carl Webb Goes AWOL Part 2
From: KUT
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Carl Webb continues his account of his desertion and life underground

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2

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