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Asking for Help
From: Safe Space Radio
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This hour-long program is about asking for help: why it’s so hard to admit when we need something from another person, and the surprising effects t...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WYSO, WAMU and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 35
Announcing the 2019 Re:sound Specials
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2019 Re:sound Specials from the Third Coast Audio Festival
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Re:sound is a remix of documentaries handpicked by the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Here's a preview of Season 6 (available now).

Bought by WFAE


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Six - We Want Colour TV!
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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This episode comes to you direct from New York City where Maeve lives and Mary was attending Climate Week. Governments, diplomates, business leader...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 40:52
Episode Five - Against the Grain
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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This episode serves up an all-you-can-eat investigation into food and its connection to climate. We meet Mothers of Invention in India, Nigeria and...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 36:41
Episode 3 - Taking Over
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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“Illuminating.” @hollywoodreporter Watch @JustVisionMedia’s #NailaandtheUprising on @PBS March 26, 9 pm ET, as part of the acclaimed series @WomenW...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 47:47
Episode 2 - The White Man Stole The Weather
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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Mary and Maeve are talking about money, money. Fighting climate change might be a moral necessity but women are learning to hit vested interests ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 37:01
Episode 1 - All Rise
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:44
  • Purchases: 1
Blaire
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Immigrant Voices
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Blaire, a DACA a student at Humboldt State University and a long-time resident, speaks of her frustration of not having the same privileges as her ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 24:10
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: Undocumented immigrants are tethered to ICE, and private companies
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Floricel Liborio Ramos in Northern California., Credit: 70 Million
A handful of companies are making millions off of ankle monitors strapped to undocumented immigrants in ICE custody. The makers pitch the monitors...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Through 2018-Part Two
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Drew Friedman
More looking back through the past year with tributes, tragedies, traitors and comedians in another remix from the cutting room floor of 2018

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Sea Anemone
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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The bizarre and wonderful sea anemone. This segment shares sea anemone life history.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Raven Radio, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Erie Canal: Compressing Time And Distance
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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On the third episode of A New York Minute In History we explore the Empire State’s most ambitious engineering feat…the Erie Canal. Completed in 182...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
The Rural Suicide Project
From: Capital Public Radio
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A rural pocket of Northern California is seeing some of the highest rates of suicide in the state. This project explores the mental health crisis i...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:05:14
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
We are measuring the river
From: Sol Rezza
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Cinco colaboradores de Radio Corax que hablan distintos idiomas (alemán, francés, árabe) junto a Sol Rezza (español) realizaron la caminata graband...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:34
"Crossroads" Hour 8 of Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
From: CultureWorks
Series: "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" narrated by Susan Sarandon
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Hour 8 “Crossroads” (1968-1978) We follow Bernstein as he leaves the Philharmonic in 1968 to concentrate more on composition. With overtones of S...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 4
Bernstein The Composer, Part 1
From: CultureWorks
Series: "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" narrated by Susan Sarandon
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Bernstein: The Composer, Part 1 (of 2) Bernstein’s role as a composer is often overshadowed by his roles as conductor and teacher. This hour will...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, WWNO, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 5
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 7: Stillness, and Still Here. Resilience. Remaining.
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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Our final episode: listen to an American combat veteran recall Iraqi samoon bread, which he refers to as white gold.

  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
Episode 6: The Censored, the Forbidden, the Disappeared
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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We’ll hear about Iraqi monuments kept hostage by US troops, denying access to the Iraqis to whom they belong.

  • Added: May 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Episode 5: Silent Letters
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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An Iraqi tells us about the absence of certain sounds in the Arabic language, and a veteran reads letters from her former grade school teacher’s cl...

  • Added: May 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:44
Episode 4: Shyness and Withdrawal
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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We’ll hear about a soldier’s refusal of tea and how that led him to work toward rediscovering his and Iraq’s humanity.

  • Added: May 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:54

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