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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
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In the first episode of The Response, we ask the question: how do communities come together in the aftermath of disasters—often in the face of ina...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 2 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
Caption: Mayor Marion Barry
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 51:30
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 3
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The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Famine Memorial Dublin, Ireland
The story of 4,000 orphan girls sent to Australia from Ireland after the Great Potato Famine of 1845-9, told by their descendants.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 42:26
Caption: The streets of Abidjan, Credit: Carol Spindel
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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A non-narrated portrait of a small group of Civil War buffs re-dedicating a Union veteran's grave in Oregon and reflecting on when our nation, as w...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, New Hampshire Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 11
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This features tells the story of the world renowned song Lili Marleen

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
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The most important anti-fascist and protest song of the 20th century

Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 38:37
  • Purchases: 2