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Fifty years after Vietnam, historians debate the influence of Montana's uniquely positioned U.S. senator
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 06:09
Not only does soil support virtually every tree, plant and crop on earth, it can control toxic waste and help mitigate climate change.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 01, 2024
- Length: 12:58
- Purchases: 1
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair M...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty cloth...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 25:44
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
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 20
The Monroe Doctrine on its 200th birthday. Messy American politics in 1823, messy American politics in 2023. And, Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Tonle ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2023
- Length: 58:39
Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...
- Added: Aug 20, 2023
- Length: 58:38
Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2023
- Length: 59:14
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 58:52
Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 57:27
On this show we sit down with the creators of the five-part documentary series, “Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops.” Narrated by Richard Gere, this...
- Added: Aug 01, 2022
- Length: 58:00
We’re joined by Iryna Tsilyk, documentary filmmaker from Kyiv, and historians Katherine Younger and Emily Channell-Justice, to hear the story of mo...
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 52:00
Nina Keogh puppeteered the rhyming Muffy Mouse on the show Today’s Special. Her other puppetry credits include work on the iconic Canadian kids sh...
- Added: Feb 23, 2021
- Length: 01:03:45
Kevin Clash made Sesame Street’s Elmo the global phenomenon he is today. He worked with The Muppets starring as Clifford, who went on to host Mupp...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 01:34:21
Tony Urbano is a puppeteer who was trained by and worked with master puppeteers such as Ralph Chessé and Bil and Cora Baird. Tony turned down a job...
- Added: Sep 29, 2020
- Length: 01:37:03
Matt Vogel is a principal Muppet performer who took over the roles of Sesame Street’s Big Bird and The Count as well as the most recognizable puppe...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 01:01:54
The Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky is the world’s only museum dedicated to the art of ventriloquism. I speak with Vent Haven’s curato...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 31:42
Ventriloquist Jay Johnson became a household name starring on the sitcom Soap as ventriloquist Chuck Campbell. He later went on to win a Tony Awar...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 01:16:36
I talk to master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, who is teaching a Master Class at the 2020 National Puppetry Conference, about his thoughts on the Confe...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 24:37
Cheryl Blaylock puppeteered the character Eureeka on the hit Nickelodeon show Eureeka’s Castle. Other credits include work on Sesame Street, Oobi,...
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 01:06:03
Since 1972, study after study has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Welc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jul 12, 2020
- Length: 51:49
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Indonesian villagers fighting the cement industry
Villagers in the Kendeng mountains of Java fight for their livelihoods a...
- Added: Apr 16, 2020
- Length: 30:00