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Rethinking Money
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacqui Dunne & Bernard Lietaer
Our worldwide monetary system is outdated. That’s the claim from international monetary expert Bernard Lietaer and award winning journalist Jacqui ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Belles of the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
Arrested Justice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Beth E. Richie
In her new book, Professor Beth E. Richie addresses the issue of marginalized communities throughout America, and the unique risk they harbor for B...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Back to Full Employment
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Pollin
Achieving full employment has been at the center of the progressive project for more than a century. If work is available at decent wages for ever...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Moten to Basie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Benny Moten
Benny Moten led the Kansas City Orchestra in the 1920s, arguably the most influential big bands of the era. His arrangements helped to create what...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
America the Possible
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Intellectual Property
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Alexandre Montegu
“Intellectual property law impacts virtually all modern business,” says Alexandre Montagu. Several years ago he established MontaguLaw , focusing o...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Nuclear Roulette
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Roulette, Credit: cover design by Matthew Simmons
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Miff & Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Miff Mole & Red Nichols
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Bet the Farm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...

Bought by KZYX and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Moon in the Nautilus Shell
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Botkin
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Politics of Voter Suppression
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Tova Andrea Wang
In her new book, Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how US election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a ne...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
California Here We Come
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders record label
California’s influence on early jazz is not a trifling matter. Several musicians emerged from the Golden State to lustrous careers.

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Squeeze
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Handel Reynolds
Three years ago an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammog...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Late in the Arab Spring with Juan Cole and Steven Heydemann
From: Open Source
Caption: Steven Heydemann at Brown University's "Engaging Afghanistan" Conferece
With the news of Osama Bin Laden's death punctuating the reports from Libya, Syria, and Yemen, we're wondering: is this the beginning of the end, o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk
From: Open Source
Caption: Robin Kelley
Christopher Lydon is in conversation hour with Robin Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His superb biog...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, KFOK-LPFM, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Nashville Insider Steps Outside
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Michael Spriggs
Michael Spriggs has been a Nashville session guitarist with the likes of Eddie Rabbitt, Dolly Parton and Faith Hill. In the 90s he began exploring...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
James Bamford: Inside the National Security Agency (Lecture)
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The National Security Agency was once nicknamed "No Such Agency." For years, the U.S. government wouldn't admit it existed. James Bamford is the a...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 54:00