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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22
BPP 115 | ROGER STONE — BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
The Big Pond #12: A House for Reconciliation
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 101: The Fox
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 22:48
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 100: Ten Thousand Feet in the Air
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.

Bought by ABC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 31:31
  • Purchases: 2
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 84: Masterpiece
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the 1950s poodles were all the rage – one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Time Travellers
From: Arlie Adlington
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This feature uses the natural sounds and rhythms of a watchmaker’s workshop to take listeners on a journey through time and space.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:02
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds
From: Roger McDonough
Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 3
Follow the Moon
From: Greg Barron
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A story of the lives-- the torture, starvation, forced marriages...and fear of Cambodians (Khmer) forced into the labor camps and Killing Fields cr...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 56:40
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Piano Player
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Phone Operator
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Sharon Griggins was 17 years old and working for Illinois Bell as a telephone operator when she was interviewed by Studs Terkel. For a job that req...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Jockey
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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When he was first interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1971, jockey Eddie Arroyo had been racing for 6 years. He said it was the hardest and most dangero...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Gravedigger
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews a gravedigger in 1972 for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Car Hiker
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
The Drift
From: Courtney Naliboff
Series: 12 Knots
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Stories change. People change. Communities change. The first episode of 12 Knots, The Drift, features three stories from the small island communit...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 43:06
Plight of the Pueblos
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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Cali Paetow explores the ongoing fight of the Native American Pueblo tribe as they push to eliminate racism and public defacement of their ancestors.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Freeman Vines: The Hanging Tree Guitar
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:15
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Splatter Platters Make Things Matter. Episode #528
From: Teosson Wells
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Rediscover splatter platters and how radio takes us on a ride!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
From: Nicki Stein
Caption: Mary D. Williams, Credit: ncstatecapitol.org
Throughout the summer of 2016, this country has been reeling in the wake of profound injustice. As racial tensions swell, is it possible that somet...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:45
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Archie Shepp
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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As a composer and a horn player, Archie Shepp is a consummate innovator, never ceasing to push music forward.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12

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