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This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KALW
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The Brazilian butt lift is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures. What is driving the desire for a “perfect peach”?
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...
Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...
- Added: Jan 10, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 58:23
For older Americans, social isolation is a public health crisis. As we age, our relationships evolve and our communities change — how do we accept ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:23
The rise of the wellness industry and marketing of wellness products moves us away from the individualized practices that actually make us feel hea...
- Added: Nov 22, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Fandoms have got a lot of media attention for their toxicity. But there’s a big flip side — one that describes the mental health and community bene...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s provocative 1985 novel satirizes the stressful chaos and insanity of American life.
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 07:08
A drama of a woman unjustly ostracized reveals deeper meanings, in a breakthrough work of Mexican cinema.
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 02:26
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 05:00
Javier Bardem shines in this dark satire about a glad-handing business owner threatened with scandal and controversy.
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 03:35
Tár is the name of a new film written and directed by Todd Field.
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 03:26
A primal conflict between love and revenge is the theme of Mauritz Stiller’s great saga of Sweden from 1919.
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 02:50
From The Future of Radio at KXCI in Tucson, DJ Electric Landfill Reviews The Classic Bright Eyes Album, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning.
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 03:48
For many modern historians, the First World War, from 1914-18, has a special significance, as the point at which an older version of civilization f...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 03:33
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection. Like a myth or a folktale, the third feature film of Mosoto writer and director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:33
A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:09
