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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
'Sissy' as in Sister
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: A meeting at A Woman's Coffee House, Credit: Janet Dahlem
In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 46:02
Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
Security and Discipline in New Orleans Charter Schools Make Many Students Feel Unsafe
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 10 Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
Russia's Anti-Revolution: 100 years after the Revolution (director's cut)
From: Hechtech
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Matters: The Civil Rights Era in Living Memory
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
This piece features the voices of black Americans who came of age during the civil rights era: an era that lives with a mix of pain and pride in th...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Matters: Stereotype Threat
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Emmett Till and mother Mamie
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
Monacan Voices Promo #2
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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:30 Promo for the full length program

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: :31
Humankind Special-- The Power of Nonviolence: Compassion practice
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Produced by David Freudberg in association with WGBH/Boston. In a world afflicted with so much violence, it would be easy to underestimate the impa...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WGCU, Central Florida Public Media, WRIR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Life of the Law Episode #59: The Trauma Room
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
Humankind special: Radioactive
From: David Freudberg
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Ideal for broadcast around Earth Day (4/22/15), produced in association with WGBH/Boston. This documentary examines different sides of the new deba...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
UnFictional: Self-Immolation Man
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A young boy escapes to a foreign country by himself, on foot, with no money or passport. When he grows up, he sets himself on fire, and lives to te...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
On the Other Side of the Myth: A Conversation with Michelle Alexander and Tim Wise
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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This second installment in the series titled Bringing Down the New Jim Crow features the first ever dialog between legal scholar Michelle Alexander...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
2/9/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Megan Westgate on the Non-GMO Project
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Do you agree that consumers have...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2/2/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert on Food Waste and GMOs
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Jeremy Seifert, documentary film maker. Learn about Seifert’s film about the tragedy of Am...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Civilian Perspectives
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and more.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
"Gil Scott-Heron: In His Own Words"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:03
"What is American?"
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by: Fabi Fliervoet, Flickr
In this edition of Audio Revolution! hosts Gabriel Rima and Savannah Chapman-Martinez take you into the depths of identity: What does it mean to be...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Spokane Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 27:40
  • Purchases: 14
Oscar Grant and Police Accountability
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Divorced Kid
From: American Public Media
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 31
Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Brainstorm: An Experience of Brain Injury (58:00 / 53:00)
From: Rogi Riverstone
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Produced by Rogi Riverstone, "Brainstorm" is a creative exploration of brain injury, through interviews with survivors.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2009
  • Length: 57:38
From the Playground to the Streets
From: TEMPO Radio Project
Series: TEMPO
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An exploration of underage prostitution in Oakland, California

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 20:45