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But Next Time Part 1: Toward the Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The End of Days - How Christian Zionism is Transforming US Policy in the Middle East
From: The GroundTruth Project
Caption: The End of Days, Credit: Gustave Doré
The GroundTruth Project and WGBH News go inside the movement of Christian Zionism, its potent political alliances, the hundreds of millions of doll...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio Catskill, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Unsung: Puerto Rican People's Power #1YearAfterMaria
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Trump administration claims its response to Hurricane Maria was a "tremendous," "unsung" success. Yet, what has been truly tremendous since the...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
BP Five Years Later: Deepwater Horizon and the Cost of Oil
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Louisiania bayou
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not everyone is “back to normal.” On this edition, we follow BP’s trail fro...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Part 7: Behind Bars, Hep C Takes a Toll on Inmates, and Budgets
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Caption: Medium security prison in Cranston, RI, Credit: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Rhode Island’s prisons are grappling with a dilemma. Hundreds of inmates have hepatitis C. New drugs can cure it. But they’re so expensive the depa...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:39
Life of the Law #34 - Necessity Defense
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:04
  • Purchases: 2
Where is Amarildo de Souza?
From: Free Speech Radio News
Caption: Amarildo de Souza, Credit: Facebook
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas

  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
Indigenous groups protest oil and gas pipelines in northern British Columbia
From: Free Speech Radio News
Caption: The Bulkley River in British Columbia., Credit: Wikipedia user Heqs
In Canada, people are rallying to support an Indigenous community in northern British Columbia that is claiming its sovereignty over the land and m...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:39
Latitude News Podcast #7 — From War on Drugs to legal weed, where will the U.S. lead the world next?
From: Latitude News
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A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
"WHERE IT'S AT: I'VE GOT TWO CONVENTIONS AND A JOBS REPORT"...TOLD THRU NARRATION, MUSIC AND SOUNDBITES
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A "newsical" analysis and roundup of both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions... plus the spin war to come over the closely watche...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 56:02
Life After War
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
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Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
Starting Over at Sea-Tac
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
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New refugees have to juggle a lot. There's finding housing, getting kids enrolled in school; often there's learning English. And there's finding a ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
Little Mogadishu
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Caption: Trudy's Bar, Credit: Alex Stonehill
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:45
"WE NOW JOIN CAMPAIGN 2012...ALREADY IN PROGRESS"( November Update and Remix)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The former political writer of "The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather" offers insights into modern politics and updates Campaign 2012...with narrati...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 55:11
An Immigrant Family Torn Apart
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The story of “Kathy”… a 9-year-old whose life was turned upside down after her parents were arrested during a workplace raid.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 1
Rural Issues: Rural Entrepreneurship
From: WILL
Series:
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How small-town entrepreneurs are trying to establish themselves, and what presidential campaigns want to do to help them

Bought by KOSU, KRZA, KBIA, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2008
  • Length: 44:09
  • Purchases: 5
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -7a: Lynching's End?: A Texas Whydunnit Murder Mystery (1930)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUER, WCPN, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Wiccan Memorial Day Service
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Wiccans commemorate three fallen Wiccan soldiers

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
Backwoods Debaters Kick Butt
From: Shana Sheehy
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All 18 Whitestone high schoolers are on the debate team and they keep beating schools with thousands of students year after year after year.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
Ridding Cambodia of Landmines
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! - Landmines in Cambodia are still a huge problem, effecting millions of children 

Bought by WBEZ, KFAI Minneapolis, and American Independence Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 3
On the Set: UnSolved Mysteries; "The Life and Death of Dr. Frank Olson"
From: Herb Malsman
Series: Visions...A Series Of Visits To (Almost) Everywhere!
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In 1953, prominent "cold-war" biochemist Dr. Frank Olson, died in New York City, under suspicious circumstances.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2005
  • Length: 02:30:35