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Many songs have a story to tell. Sometimes this message is clear other times it’s not. Sometimes it would be nice to know what the artist was think...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 36:08
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Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 11:47
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Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is nev...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolu...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark p...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Northern Uganda
"I escaped because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan." Beatrice Ocwee Reporter Gladys Oroma continues ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 44:12
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For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 20:05
Caption: impalila island, Namibia, Credit: LN Lurie
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:07
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
Caption: Mingus RIP, Credit: Robert Vye
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
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Even at war there is order. Or is there?

  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
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True GHOST stories told by the Southerners who lived them. From a haunted night in a hotel, to a stage ghost calling people by name, to a ghostly c...

Bought by WMPG and KUT


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We read that pollutants are causing a sex change in fish.

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Farmers ready to Bid, Credit: Beatrice Murch
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One does not argue with a person afflicted with a Type A personality

  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 01:33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it comes to formulating an opinion on global warming, would you be more inclined to believe an MIT professor who has studied climate change or...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: There is no mud, Credit: Muriel Murch
The global economy and global warming both bring changes to Northern California

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A visit to the Endagered Species booth at the Common Ground Fair

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Dec 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1