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Two men address their fear of climate change by getting their cities to declare a climate emergency and commit to rapidly lowering emissions.

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


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional, regional, down-home music of the US, his adopted hom...

Bought by WDCB, KICI Iowa City, WNYO, and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 4
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Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 13:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 19:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 21:11
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In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: June 2019 Pride Month marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. In "Stonewall 50" WFUV News explores the events leading up to the night of June 28, 1969 and the past five decades of the LGBTQIA+ movement., Credit: Photos: AP Images, Creative Commons; Collage: Valeria Villarroel
The Gay Liberation Movement is widely recognized as having begun nearly fifty years ago in New York City. On June 28, 1969, patrons at a gay bar ca...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WHFR and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 6
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It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 23:47
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Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With its diversity of more than 3,000 varieties the Germans are world champions of bread. Since ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 24:27
  • Purchases: 2
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German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 20:24
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Among the various STEM education organizations that have developed throughout the last several years, there is ChickTech. The local Austin chapter ...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 35:42
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Richmond California is a working class town that grew up in the shadow of a Chevron refinery. The company ran both the economy – and the local gove...

Bought by KUOW, KUNM, WFAE, WAMU, WUTC and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:28
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Marou, Faiseurs de Chocolat, was founded in 2011 by Vincent Mourou and Samuel Maruta and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The company is the ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 39:58
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This episode of Art Beat we cover The Dinky Town Uprising, a film from the 2016 Frozen River Film Festival dealing with a 40 day and 40 night occup...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 40:28
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This week on Art Beat, we visit with Dylan Overhouse, the director of Downhill Skateboarding which was part of the 2016 Frozen River Film Festival ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 09:33
Caption: Bertha Palmer-Kathryn Chesney
Bertha Palmer as written and presented by Kathryn Chesney

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:04
Caption: Emily Graves Webb
Emily Graves Webb as written and performed by Laurie Akin.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 11:40
Caption: Adelaide Bullen
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Ripley Bullen
Archeologist Ripley Bullen written and presented by Ed Schmidt

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:42
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Mikael Cho is the co-founder and CEO of Crew, at one point in the business’s history, he says they were running straight towards a brick wall. They...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 08:16
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The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 36:27
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This episode we are talking Radiation. Part of living on Earth is that we are all exposed to low levels of Radiation. We are made of it, we emit it...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 1