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Life of the Law #126 UGANDA: Pt 1 - Abducted
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Life of the Law begins our 4-part series on Uganda. Reported by Gladys Oroma from Gulu, Uganda where she reports for local, national and internatio...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 36:29
Episode 69: Becoming Chief Brown
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1
Nobel Voices For Disarmament
From: David Tarnow
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As the world teeters on the brink of war between two nuclear armed countries, it might give us some much needed comfort to know about the dedicated...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Part 1
From: Victoria Davis
Series: The 1975 Voting Rights Act: A Brief History
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This episode is part one of a four-part series on the 1975 Voting Rights Act Extension and Expansion, which extended protections to Latinos and oth...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 16:02
  • 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...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #122: Government Ghost
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
The only paid climate skeptic who ever flipped
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 41:51
Reuben & Patty Petersheim
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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People sometimes assume that we are part of the Amish group. But we drive cars, and we do utilize technology. We have a Facebook page.

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
TriPod Xtras: Rashauna Johnson on "Slavery's Metropolis"
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Rashauna Johnson (left) and TriPod host Laine Kaplan-Levenson discuss Johnson's award winning book "Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions" at the 2017 Organization of American Historians Conference.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with another edition of TriPod Xtras. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Dartmouth history professor Rashauna Johnso...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 20:17
The Women Who Fought For And Against The ERA: Part II
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Boy holding an Equal Pay for Equal Work sign, ERA March and Jazz Funeral, 1982, Credit: Pat Denton Collection, Newcomb Archives Tulane.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part II of its series on the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
The Women Who Fought For And Against The ERA: Part I
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Pat Denton speaking at the ERA March and Jazz Funeral, New Orleans, 1982. , Credit: Pat Denton Collection / Newcomb Archives, Tulane University
This is the first in a two-part series on the local Second-wave feminist movement and the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 12:14
Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868–1871, Credit: Mathew Brady Studio / National Archive
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:20
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
New Orleans Tourism Dollars Can Come At A Price
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Image from the Official Gray Line Guides of the Gray Line Motor Tours., Credit: Molly Mitchell
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two in a series on links between history and tourism.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:18
Why New Orleans Leaned Into Tourism
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Poster showing vignette of New Orleans, Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection; Gift of Michael Adler [2008.0038.15]
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a two-part series on tourism, starting with the city’s relationship to the industry, and how we became depen...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:32
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer, Credit: Howard University Library Systems
Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday is Oct 6. She's no longer alive, and may not be as widely known as others in the civil rights movement --- but he...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Refugee Doctors
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Dr. Abdelwahhab Azzawi
Escape is only the first challenge.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:39
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
Separate and Unequal
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Johnson with Kerner Commission, Credit: LBJ Library
Uprisings and riots by African Americans in 1967 left white people shocked and surprised. A presidential commission was assigned to look into why i...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WITF, WAMU, MPR News Stations, KJZZ and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 50:28
  • Purchases: 16
Life of the Law #115: Ten Hours to Twenty Years
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:34
A health insurance executive has a crisis of conscience
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What happens when the executive spin doctor for one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country confronts the consequences of his spin...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 32:37
  • Purchases: 1
Pete Seeger: Plain and Complicated
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many. Seeger’s ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26
  • Purchases: 1

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