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Margaret Chase Smith: Cold Warrior in Pearls
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
Gracie Allen: The Joke That Became a Campaign
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 10
Monster Banks
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:59
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
President Change: What's Hope? What's Reality
From: Brian Sussman
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Fast-forward to January 2009. A new President is in the Oval Office. How will he ? or she ? grease the wheels of official Washington to get an age...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 32:03
The Shift of Land part 12...local food
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the twelfth pr...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land part 11...Seed Sovereignty
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. The Shift of Land ...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land part 10...Land
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. The Shift of Land ...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land part 9...Water
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the ninth progr...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Shift of Land part 8...A Global Perspective
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In this program Ne...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land part 6...Current State of Things
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the sixth progr...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 14, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land part 5...La Mezcla
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the fifth progra...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land part 3...Enters the Indio-Hispano
From: KRZA
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The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. The third program ...

Bought by KENW and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Paradise Lost
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Failed States
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Haiti is often considered a classic example of a failed state. But what does that actually mean in practice?

Bought by WRPI and WFUV


  • Added: Oct 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
Tejidos Culturales #5 The Chicano Movment #2
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tejidos Culturales is a cultural series looking at the San Luis Valley. This program is the 2nd part looking at the Chicano Movement.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KWCW


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 2 – Dearest of Friends
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Second in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Am...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 3 – The Two Republicks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Third in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Ame...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
The Sweetgrass Road
From: David Kattenburg
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Aboriginal wisdom and approaches to life

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Nature Podcast, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 07, 2003
  • Length: 54:49
  • Purchases: 3
The Child Soldiers of Uganda
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Narrationless documentary about the plight of Uganda's child soldiers

  • Added: Oct 30, 2003
  • Length: 28:37