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Mudbound tells the stories of people who don’t often get their stories told: poor white farmers and black sharecroppers in the South during the 194...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:02
Chopin guides us back home through a tender harmonic progression in the third movement of this masterpiece.
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 07:43
A moment of passion taken from the final movement of Barber's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 04:08
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 16:26
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Of the 88 constellations officially recognized by Western astronomy, 40 of them are named after animals — 43 if you count the mythical animals. We’...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 49:17
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
We hear about systems of mutual support; where peers coping with similar struggles like HIV, mental health issues and surviving prison step into th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Join in a pub singalong as Brigitte Stamp remembers her Dad, her ear pressed to his chest to hear the resonance of his voice, as he sang one of his...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:13
Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Steve Downing attended the exhibit "Davidson At Eighty, A Retrospective" at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. The exhibit celebrates the work of...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
This week we revisit a 2012 interview with Georgetown professor, Jacques Berlinerblau. We discuss his most recent book, How to Be Secular: A Call t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 59:00
Competing essayists Jennifer Nelson and Jason Steck debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think ...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
Gary Younge, author of "The Speech" talks about Martin Luther King Junior's Dream and the story behind it.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WVAS, WJSU and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 14
How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 06:39
The story of Antoinette Tuff, a bookkeeper who was filling in at the front desk of an Atlanta Suburban elementary school of about 800 students on A...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 4
The story of Antoinette Tuff, a bookkeeper who was filling in at the front desk of an Atlanta Suburban elementary school of about 800 students on A...
Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
Sandip Roy sends us an audio postcard from the 2014 Indian election season.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability two years after experiencing an AVM, an Arteriov...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KVSC
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 02:30
On November 19th citizens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will vote on the first city-level 20 week abortion ban in the U.S., with no exceptions for r...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 02:30
When it comes to how we treat our veterans,we do pretty well in some areas, but fall down in others. Homelessness is one of the worst. It’s way t...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
October marks the International Day of the Girl Child. This year's emphasis is on education.
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Forty seven million people in the U.S. depend on food aid, and almost half are kids. For the first time in modern history, the House has passed as ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2013
- Length: 02:30
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 02:30
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
