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Stopping the Gentrification Train
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Evans Station Lofts
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...

Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Tidepools
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio snapshot celebrating the unique diversity of tidepools along the pacific coast.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Rearranging the Numbers
From: Martine Chaussard
Caption: Ted Davis’ completed (and oddly shaped) Sudoku puzzles from a book called “Tricky Sudoku”
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 10:52
INTRODUCING MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS 2017
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: FreshArtINTL Live Radio
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Brought to you live from the studio at Jolt Radio, our latest program on South Florida’s film culture introduces Miami Film Festival’s GEMS 2017. H...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:03:56
Hominy, Fry Bread, Ramps, and a Casino: Evolving Cherokee Foodways
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Martha Sherril prepares hominy over a wood fire outside the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Credit: Carla Seidl
This piece investigates the recent history of Cherokee foodways and examines lifestyle changes brought to the Eastern Band by the construction of H...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
Shaky Ground: Tsunami Sister City
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, a small boat belonging to Takata High School in Rikuzentakata was swept o...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
Child Hero Martina
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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In the early morning hours of February 27, 2010, Martina Marturana felt a slight tremor that lasted a long time. The 12-year-old lived on Robinson...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Magnitude of Our Seismic Times
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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From measuring the "size of the wiggle" to monitoring a "seismic moment", Geologist Lori Dengler discusses the scientific endeavor to quantify ear...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
Specters of Attica: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
From: Making Contact
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On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Concrete Dream: Miami Marine Stadium - Jolt Radio - 04Apr2018
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: FreshArtINTL Live Radio
Caption: Miami Marine Stadium, Credit: Diana Larrea
Miami Marine Stadium inspires this tale of modernist architecture and Biscayne Bay, of speedboats and rock stars, of skateboarding, street art and ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 46:07
Sound Ecology Mountain Beaver
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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The mountain beaver is an important part of ecosystem health. Research Ecologist Bill Zielinski wrote this segment about this little-known mammal.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, KRZA, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 4
Beth Stanford Women Rock Festival
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Beth Stanford at Hardywood., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Snowflakes form blizzards, and a single voice, of the right pitch, can create an avalanche. Disgusted by the views of the president-elect, Teresa...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 27:30
Shaky Ground: Kamaishi Heroes
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Kamaishi junior high students saved themselves and many others during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Geologist Lori Dengler highlights t...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Voices
From: Leslie Cross
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A women's history-month series, highlighting lesser-known historical female figures.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:03:37
Sound Ecology: Harbor Seals
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Remarkable facts about the ubiquitous resident of our coastal regions, the harbor seal.

Bought by Radio Newark and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: A letter by Katherine Jones, signed K. Ranalagh , Credit: Michelle DiMeo
The woman beside the father of chemistry.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 25:35
Two Sports, No Problems
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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In a world where specializing in one sport is becoming more and more common, Marisa Romeo bucks that trend. She uses her talents to play both lacro...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #122: Government Ghost
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds
From: Roger McDonough
Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 3
Grandmothers Matter
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
Makers Series 5: Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat, was founded in 2011 by Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company is the ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 39:58
Life of the Law #115: Ten Hours to Twenty Years
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:34
BUILDING NEW TRAIL: How volunteers worked with the Forest Service to provide public access
From: Barb Seaman
Caption: The Columbia River, as seen from the Cape Horn Trail
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:27
Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemaker
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by David Castellan and Cynthia Leung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company has since grown to two st...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 37:48

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