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Four Symphonic Secrets Revealed
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Not Buying Into Food Woo
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
A Host of Haunted Houses
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning takes a look at some haunted houses and separates the historical facts from the ghost stories.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Whit Stillman, Episode 1: I'm Not Entirely Joking
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Entertainment
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This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
WITNESS THE GENIUS: RAY CHARLES (An Appreciation) [Optional Part 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Ray Charles
An optional second hour of a deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is...

Bought by KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WABE, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Anorexia Nervosa Recovery
From: Debra Sloss
Series: STATE of MIND with Debra Sloss
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Episode 60: Unravel the complexities of Anorexia Nervosa, the deadliest mental illness after opioid overdose. Biomedical writer Evelyn Strauss and ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:39
Civics 101: How Should We Teach Civics?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Civics and social studies education are getting a lot of attention these days. How do we teach about our democracy?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Music Archive Showcase #158 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: DENNY TEDESCO, director, THE WRECKING CREW
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Music specials host Paul Ingles talks with film director Denny Tedesco about his 2015 film release called THE WRECKING CREW, about the Los Angeles ...

Bought by KFSK, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, WRGY, KUHF and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sheila Donohue Interview-Vero Wines
From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 242 Exploring all things wine with you! In this episode Kim and Mark interview Sheila Donohue Founder a...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 33:43
The Battle for a Climate Friendly Farm Bill
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Progressives and ultra-rights clash over $20 billion allocated to promote "climate smart agriculture" . Farmers say the practices this would defund...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, RadioStPete Florida, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Promise of Kepler-22b
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to explore a remarkable world that lies beyond our solar system: Kepler-22b. This planet is one of the first confirmed exoplane...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
episode 5: acoustic refuge
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 19:11
episode 3: glacier walkers
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 24:28
Music Archive Showcase #154 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Author David Leaf on Brian Wilson + The Beach Boys - Part 1 of 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: "GOD ONLY KNOWS: The Story of Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the California Myth" book by David Leaf
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles talks with filmmaker and author David Leaf about Leaf's 2022 book called "GOD ONLY KNOWS: The Story o...

Bought by KAAD-LP, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 5 - The Return of Salmon (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: Shasta-Trinity National Forest, CA—The granddaughter of Chief Caleen Sisk holds salmon eggs before dropping them into an incubator (the blue barrel) where they will hatch and juvenile salmon will swim out into the McCloud River. July 11, 2022. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - The Return of Salmon. A War Dance held on top of Shasta Dam brought about a surprising discovery: the Winnemem Wintu's fish s...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVCR, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 4 - Speaking for Salmon (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: McCloud, CA — A Winnemem Wintu man dances in ceremony for the salmon. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - Speaking for Salmon. At a sacred spring high up on Mt. Shasta, the Winnemem Wintu recount the beginnings of the world when sa...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVCR, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 3 - A Habitat Destroyed (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
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A Prayer for Salmon - A Habitat Destroyed. The Winnemem Wintu and supporters start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters a...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KALW, KVCR and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 2 - It's Illegal (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: "Shasta Reservoir, CA — Chief Caleen Sisk on the shoreline near where she says a Winnemem Wintu village site was flooded out by Shasta Dam. October 30, 2018. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - It's Illegal. We go to Shasta Dam and learn about the history behind its construction in the late 1930s and early 1940s. We h...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVCR, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 1 - A Protest at Shasta Dam (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: Shasta Lake, CA — The Winnemem Wintu and allies protest the lack of information about the harm caused by Shasta Dam. September 25, 2019. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - A Protest at Shasta Dam. In a peaceful protest, the Winnemem Wintu call out the U.S. government for its refusal to acknowledg...

Bought by KKRN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, KFCF FM, KVCR and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: David Mivasair canoes Cootes Paradise, Credit: David Kattenburg
The roots of the US anti-abortion movement — misogyny, racism and hatred of immigrants. On the edge of a big Canadian city, an oasis of calm where ...

  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:33

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