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Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 07:53
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 07:47
You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:31
Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible,...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Bobby podcasts via Skype with Ronnie Lee Smith aka Roland A. Duby, stand-up comedian, social media personality, and self-proclaimed healer of cance...
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 29:17
How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...
- Added: Nov 21, 2013
- Length: 15:45
Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Pregnancy tests? Pigeon poo? What Chicago aldermen really do
One frustrated Chicagoan wondered what her alderman’s responsible for
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...
Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 8
Interview with Serbian musician Nemanja Kojic (Hornsman Coyote) by Constance A. Dunn. Interview from Coyote's living room in Belgrade.
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 44:12
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:24
On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 3
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 10:05
- Purchases: 3
Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 06:20
Air Occupy presents voices from the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. on February 17. Interviews with rally participants and sounds fro...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 59:06
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39