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25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 9
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
American West writer Mark Lee Gardner’s “THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Colorado-based Mark Lee Gardner’s ninth book, THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS, is a dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legend...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 09:39
Kent State
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Wiles
On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen. The students were unarmed. The Guard w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting 0063 - The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later - Part 3 of a 3 Part Series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: The Stonewall Inn, NYC, Credit: Diana Davies via New York Public Library
A look back at LGBTQ activism, putting the Stonewall uprising into historical context on its 50th anniversary.

Bought by KZYX and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
OutCasting 0062 – The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later – Part 2 of a Series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Journalist and activist Andy Humm
A look back at LGBTQ activism, putting the Stonewall uprising into historical context on its 50th anniversary.

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting 0061 - The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later - Part 1 of a Series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: The Stonewall Inn, NYC, Credit: Diana Davies via New York Public Library
A look back at LGBTQ activism, putting the Stonewall uprising into historical context on its 50th anniversary.

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, KPSQ-LP, WMPG, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Just in time for Halloween---Kiersten White's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:36
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein on Broadway
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Leonard Bernstein, Credit: Al Ravenna, 1955, courtesy of the Library of Congress
After Leonard Bernstein, Broadway was not the same…. Composer and commentator Rob Kapilow shows us why.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 43:29
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates author Pam Munoz Ryan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Pam Munoz Ryan
For award-winning author for young readers Pam Munoz Ryan multiculturalism comes naturally.

Bought by KWMR, KRZA, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 3
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Cahan
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Kevin McKenzie of American Ballet Theatre
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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American Ballet Theatre received the first grant ever given by the National Endowment for the Arts. We talk about that long and fruitful relationship.

Bought by KZUM, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Forty-Five Years Ago, We First Landed On The Moon: Meet The Man In Charge In Mission Control
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: NASA flight director Eugene F. Kranz at his console in Mission Control in Houston on May 30, 1965, during a Gemini-Titan IV simulation to prepare for the four-day, 62-orbit flight., Credit: NASA
NOTE: This interview has two versions, one short (3:42), one long (12:11). Forty-five years ago this Sunday [July 20, 2014], Apollo 11 became the ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:11
  • Purchases: 2
Fidel Castro 1959: the Lost Interview
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro in 1959. Havana.

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 2
National Parks Centennial: The Dispossessed of the Shenandoah
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Madison County, Credit: Charles McGuigan
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:40
Marion Kane: Bon Appetit, Julia Child Series, Part 1
From: Marion Kane
Caption: Julia and Marion in Marion's Kitchen
This is the first part of my Bon Appetit series celebrating the life and legacy of my friend and mentor Julia Child whose 100th birthday would have...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 22:13
When Former Enemies Sit Down and Talk About World War II
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Great Alaska Earthquake: A Survivor's Tale
From: Rebecca Sheir
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On March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever to strike North America sparked tsunamis that destroyed a village. Paul Timothy Selanoff lived to te...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Willing for Trouble: Profile of Tibetan Poet & Freedom Fighter Tenzin Tsundue
From: The Tibet Connection
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Interview with a poet-activist who is inspiring a new generation of Tibetan youth

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Young American Writer Joins the March to Tibet
From: The Tibet Connection
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An interview about courage, international friendship, and how to break INTO an Indian jail

  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:20
Tracking Progress in Lower Manhattan
From: WFUV
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A panel discussion on progress in Lower Manhattan six years after the 9/11 attacks.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Sep 06, 2007
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
James Beard: An American Revolution [1 hour version]
From: Melissa Waldron Lehner
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A Reading of Letters from the James Beard Collection

Bought by PRX to iTunes, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 28, 2005
  • Length: 53:44
  • Purchases: 4
Never Again: A Holocaust Memorial - with Elie Wiesel and Abraham Foxman
From: RadioArt(r)
Series: ONLY IN AMERICA: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience
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NEVER AGAIN: A HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: is a one hour special that includes Larry Josephson's recent exclusive interview with Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 15
Surviving Church
From: Bruce Gerstman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two people who joined Jim Jones's cult, The People's Temple, and got married 20 years after the Jonestown Massacre.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2003
  • Length: 10:22
The '63 March: Forty Years Later
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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This is the fifth in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. For some who were there, memories of t...

Bought by WEAA, 90.5 WSNC, WJAB, KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2003
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 6