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A Blind Date with Dividends: Dr. Robert Elliott Smith on Polarizing Algorithms
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Dr. Robert Elliott Smith
How do social media algorithms feed us news, entertainment, advertisements, even suggesting friends and lovers? By simplifying human nature, accord...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 30:02
COVID-19 & Gaps in School Food Distribution
From: Narrative Arts
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Michael Turner, 42, runs the food pantry which supplements free & reduced lunch with take-home groceries. Now his job is to figure out which studen...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
COVID-19 & Hurricane Recovery in African American Neighborhoods
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coronavirus / COVID-19 in coastal North Carolina
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Diana Tootle, 58, lives in Morehead City, North Carolina. Tootle speaks to the intersection between Hurricane Florence and COVID-19 in her historic...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Hurricanes & COVID-19 Affect Seafood
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coronavirus / COVID-19 in coastal North Carolina
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Melvin Dunn, 41, is a shrimper in Beaufort, North Carolina. Dunn lost a shrimp season with Hurricane Dorian last September and now faces further im...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Two Kinds of Storms: Coronavirus & Hurricanes
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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In this episode, we explore how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting people who are still in recovery from Hurricane Florence. We also talk about ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 10:33
  • Purchases: 1
Veteran living in quarantine
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coronavirus / COVID-19 in coastal North Carolina
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James (Jim) Wall is 75 and living in quarantine with his step-grandchildren. Here's what he has to say.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
COVID-19 & Food Lion to Grocery Store Clerk
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coronavirus / COVID-19 in coastal North Carolina
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Chris Lamoreaux speaks to toilet paper mayhem and other patterns happening in this small-town grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Community college students & coronavirus
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coronavirus / COVID-19 in coastal North Carolina
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Emmanuel (Manny) Ngardinga (Gar-din-ga) is stressed about the changes to his school schedule as a result of coronavirus.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Neighborhood Love
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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When Cedric saw little being done to help one community in Wilmington during Hurricane Florence, he had to act fast.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
EMT
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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Aaron has been a first responder in New Hanover County for over 20 years. Here's what he did during Hurricane Florence.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 07:49
On the Detention Centers at the Border - Vanessa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
St Louis' Jazz Festival And French Slavery (1996 BBC World Service)
From: Hechtech
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Sample feature as BBC correspondent in the 1990s

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 07:25
Drew Barrymore
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Pledge Drive Songs, Topical Songs & Parodies
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Funny & Catchy Song to play before or after any segment involving a Pop Icon.

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 02:48
Life of the Law Episode #67: The Stop
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
"Fresh Dressed" 2015 Sundance Documentary Submission
From: Sara Wagner
Series: Sundance Wrap
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Commentary by Director Sasha Jenkins of "Fresh Dressed"

  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:56
Episode 12: Break The Internet
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1999, most of America’s tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in Canada was messing around in chat rooms, meeting...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 16:26
  • Purchases: 2
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
A night with the projectionist
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Projectionist Nikki Weispfenning at Trylon Microcinema , Credit: Todd Melby
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
Before You Do This
From: vanessa lowe
Caption: Toby Hawkins
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
Street Roots
From: Adrienne Picciotto
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Street Roots is a non-profit news outlet that has been addressing homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon since 1998.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:27
Episode 4 ~ Online Gaming Communities
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:35
The Art of Video Game Design (Billboard)
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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The introduction to each episode of "The Art of Video Game Design"

  • Added: Mar 08, 2014
  • Length: :36
WHERE WERE WE IN '63 ?
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: interviewing Irving Brecher
Interviews with New Yorkers remembering where they were on November 22nd, 1963

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 2
Producer Profile: Wil Meya
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Wil Meya
Multimedia Intern Bekka Schlichting speaks with Wil Meya Director of The Language Conservancy about the upcoming documentary Rising Voices

  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 15:59
Diary of A Bad Year: A War Correspondent's Dilemma
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Kelly McEvers, Credit: Glen Carey
NPR's Kelly McEvers' unprecedented and intimate portrait of the sacrifices reporters and their families make to tell untold stories -- and the some...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KSUT, RadioFreePalmer, WYSO and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 81