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Caption: Heidi Hall
Unspun talks with Heidi Hall about the important issues that face us and her exciting and demanding campaign.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:03
Caption: Pedro Pan girls, Florida City, Fla., 1962.  , Credit: Courtesy of Ileana Ortega Menéndez.
Historian Tsianina Lomawaima talks about the enduring legacy of Indian boarding schools, which sought to forcibly integrate tribal children into wh...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Pedro Pan girls, Florida City, Fla., 1962.  , Credit: Courtesy of Ileana Ortega Menéndez.
BackStory editor Robert Armangol explores the legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:09
Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
Brian Balogh speaks with former Senator Fred Harris about the commission convened by President Lyndon Johnson in the dark days of the 1967 Detroit ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:24
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Nina Earnest explores how the professionalization of the Los Angeles Police Department -intended to free the police from municipal corrupt...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:46
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Lt. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Unspun was honored to talk with Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell for the hour.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:10
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Widows from WWII, Vietnam and Iraq wars discuss changes over time from the loss of their husbands in war.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mr. Midwest joins us to talk about early polling for the Iowa caucus, pot in Colorado and stiff competition between states to lure a new Boeing pla...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The Navajo Nation could get more than a billion dollars to clean up uranium in Arizona and New Mexico; Utah's campaign to end homelessness by 2015 ...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The Amish are among several religious groups that are exempt from the Affordable Care Act. Erika Beras talks to members of an Amish community in We...

Bought by WITF and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Syrian Refugees, Credit: UN
Over 2 million Syrians have been displaced by that country's ongoing civil war. Neighboring countries are overwhelmed with refugees. So where else ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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A generational discussion on surveillance issues

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Making a meaningful difference
Listen to songs by Freebo, an explanation of the Emotion Roadmap, a real time successful conversation with a woman who wants to trust her husband a...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 30:37

  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Older, Middle and Younger generation guests discuss Marijuana...then, now and in the future

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Free MUNI for Youth campaign celebrants in San Francisco, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Mitch Skinner talks to rapper P.O.S. about his new album and his search for a new kidney.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 57:42
Caption: Image: Trains stand in a flooded Metro-North's Harmon Yard, Oct. 31, 2012, on the Hudson Line, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Credit: AP Photo | Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode...if you want to get a straight answer from a politician, try asking a straight question. ( it probably won't work...but at least y...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 56:04
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Pre-October surprises test the mettle of the presidential candidates, the press and US foreign policy. Mitt Romney struggles with reaction to hi...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 57:16
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Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:17