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Tradition Bearers | “Barbara Allen”, Leadbelly, Joan Baez, Tony Rice & Colter Wall

From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 59 min

This episode pays homage to tradition bearers in blues, folk and country music, sharing the stories of the traditional ballad "Barbara Allen", Lead...

Billie Holiday + Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 59 min

Lacking any formal training, Billie Holiday is considered among the greatest jazz vocalists of all time, with one of the most tumultuous lives of a...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.

"Man of Constant Sorrow"

From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 8 Minute Shorts

Thought to be rooted in the early hymns brought to America, this old-time folk song has shined brightly in the spotlight of the roots music communi...

Son House (Part 2)

From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 8 Minute Shorts

Highly regarded as the “King of the Delta Blues” and a “Father of the Blues”, Son House was a force of nature who’s emotive guitar playing and prea...

Doc Watson (Part 2)

From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 8 Minute Shorts

North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...

Bogus Earth Theories

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

The Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, Expanding Earth and more, oh my! Come along with us today as we look at some suspect theories about our home planet.

Civics 101: Strikes, Unions, and Workers' Rights

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

This is the story of what happens (and what's happening) when the American workforce tries to get a seat at the table.

Bought by WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KHNS and more

Crude Oil Catastrophes Part 3: A Tale of Two Treaties

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North

The U.S. Constitution refers to treaties with other sovereign nations as “the supreme law of the land.” But what happens when promises have been ma...

The Quest for Kiyi

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North

Small, silvery fish called kiyi used to roam the deep, cold waters of nearly every Great Lake. Remnant populations still exist in Lake Superior, an...

Season 1, Episode 48 - 'Fixing Flow' feat Minni Jain

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

Managing water across the globe, one community at a time.

Bought by KZUM and WOJB

Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid

From: KSFP

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars

From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour

Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida

This Asian American Life

From: Mateo Schimpf

How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City

Decarbonize Based on Need, Not LEED

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Chicago bungalow, Credit: Jim Roberts

Research is finding the answers Chicago needs to jumpstart wide scale equitable home electrification

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

Origin Stories

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

How race was invented to support racism.

Out of Gas, In with Justice

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

Homegrown Community Owned Solar

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Olympia Community Solar's millennial solar powerhouse, Credit: Olympia Community Solar

We don't have to wait for utilities or for-profit solar developers to expand solar power in our communities and, if we do it right, we can keep the...

Bought by KZYX, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, and WFHB

EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR

EP205 A.C. Reed

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR

New York's Hunter College is falling apart

From: Julian Abraham

Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

Kiss Your Gas Goodbye

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center

To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City

Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights

The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.

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