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Angel Garcia
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
Noah Creshevsky
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:41
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Whit Stillman, Episode 1: I'm Not Entirely Joking
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Entertainment
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This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Nowhere to go: How the system failed a trafficking survivor
From: WMUK
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A look at one woman's experience with human trafficking and the systemic failures she endured while trying to get help.

Bought by WVPE and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 2
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 64
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes that question responsibility.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 63
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about addressing complex problems.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 51:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 62
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes that include uncomfortable but necessary conversations.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 23:09
  • Purchases: 1
EP 98: Crazy-On-You Activism for Peace & Planet
From: Earth Riot Radio
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Feeling good about the activism we tried, but enough of the “rally & march & rally & march,” — WE FACE THE UNKNOWN. Gotta return to honest shock -...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
99. Neil Young: Love as the Apocalypse Rocks Us
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
100. The Post-Religious Chxrch of the Fabulous Unknown
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism. Since the Earth's crisis ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
WITNESS THE GENIUS: RAY CHARLES (An Appreciation) [Optional Part 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Ray Charles
An optional second hour of a deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is...

Bought by KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WABE, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
WITNESS THE GENIUS: RAY CHARLES (An Appreciation)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Ray Charles
A deep dive into the remarkable career of RAY CHARLES, one of the formative forces in 20th century music whose impact is still clearly felt today. ...

Bought by WJCT, KSJE, WABE, WNMU-FM, KTNA and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Anorexia Nervosa Recovery
From: Debra Sloss
Series: STATE of MIND with Debra Sloss
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Episode 60: Unravel the complexities of Anorexia Nervosa, the deadliest mental illness after opioid overdose. Biomedical writer Evelyn Strauss and ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:39
Teens with Anxiety
From: Debra Sloss
Series: STATE of MIND with Debra Sloss
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Episode 61 explores the stark reality that almost one in three adolescents will grapple with an anxiety disorder by age 18. Join us as college stud...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 57:54
Gender-Based Violence Prevention for Teens and Young Adults
From: Debra Sloss
Series: STATE of MIND with Debra Sloss
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Episode 62 delves into the critical issue of gender-based violence, encompassing domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:12
Policing the Police with John LaFratta
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 26:38
Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, Baltimore Public Media, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Four Famous Cryptids Unmasked
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines the legends of four famous cryptids: the Bili Ape of the Congo, the Beast of Gevaudan, the Monster of Port Chatham, and the ...

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Lost Cause — the Civil War, then and now
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? This provocative audio documentary explores the history of a conflict that...

Bought by WHYY, KUNM, Maine Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 54
Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
Civics 101: How Should We Teach Civics?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Civics and social studies education are getting a lot of attention these days. How do we teach about our democracy?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Are We A Democracy Or A Republic?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 1
Gerrymandering
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by WKSU and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
How Secure Are Our Elections?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 1

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