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In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the slave revolt on the Brig Creole with Harvard Professor Walter Johnson.
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 10:23
The Rainbow Warrior comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?
What is a FAD or Fish Aggregating Device?
We ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 15:05
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 03:56
Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the cou...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WABE, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA
- Added: Jan 01, 2016
- Length: 50:14
- Purchases: 4
Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert will premiere Audubon, a new documentary about the renowned bird artist, eloquent writer, and...
- Added: Dec 08, 2015
- Length: 01:00:10
From: World Footprints LLC
Prepare for a trans-continental bike ride to the South Pole and experience island paradise – USA style - in Georgia, Massachusetts, and California.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 59:55
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
Bowling as a competitive sport and family pastime peaked decades ago. The game still exists, but with fewer participants. KFAI producer Bill Lindek...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:01
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 05:44
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 4
Rebecca McInroy and Rabbi Neil Blumofe discuss Gerwin's music and legacy.
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:26:08
Compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of the many seasons of programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-violent ...
Bought by KRPS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 8
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...
Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 5
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 28:31
Anita Fineday is an Ojibwe Indian from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. “Blood Quantum” is about how Anita reclaimed her Indian heritage a...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 29:29
We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 33:10
- Purchases: 4
World War Two B-24 bomber pilot veteran Sherman Beard, of Hillsboro, West Virginia remembers flying missions over Europe during the war.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco and Texas ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 58:45
- Purchases: 43
In April 2014, the world is taking time to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide and to remember the more than 800,000 lives that...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 12:27
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 24:58
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 52:41
- Purchases: 21
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Anthony Braxton. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn why ...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 14
Before the launch of the Voyager probes, Carl Sagan was given the daunting task of assembling a guide to all things human. Something that would fit...
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 01:44
