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Dominique Daye Hunter explores her art's inspiration and its role in challenging the undervaluing of art.

Bought by KSTK, WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 4
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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
Caption:  Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient
On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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More than a million Americans are in jails and prisons. In this documentary we present the voices of ex-prisoners who’ve made profound progress in ...

Bought by WUWM, KUHF, WAMU, WUOT 91.9 FM, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Based on our experience here on Earth, we know life here to be tenacious and ubiquitous. Even in the harshest climates, if we look hard enough, we...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
For 2023-24 "Surviving The Bataan Death March" Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW) Special Encore Presentation Offered as ...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:48
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Nick Wade; a young artist with an old sound of the past and lyrics of the present.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Not Old Better Show
According to the Center for Disease Control, only one-third of Americans have gathered their family health history, although 96% of them believe th...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 30:40
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
Caption: Self portrait., Credit: Uliana Bazar
Four years ago, Uliana Bazar, along with her spouse, Matthew Propert, left their home in the United States and flew to Ukraine, the land of her bir...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:20
Caption: City Singers
Basil Smith, one of the prime movers behind this choir of children called the City Singers, talks about the transformative nature of music, an impa...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 24:15
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 41:55
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars. In fact, rogue exoplanet...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:07