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Lives in Music: Mark Robinson - 40 years in the UK's CBSO
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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40 years in one of the UK's finest orchestras. Mark Robinson has stories!

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 51:21
Jay MacLeod - "Ain't no makin' it" - the perils of achievement ideology
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with author and sociologist Jay MacLeod.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Flipping Economics on Its Head: Kate Raworth #219 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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No civilization should head out into the world without “Doughnut Economics” in its survival kit. With her modernized thinking, economist Kate Rawor...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
Trickle-Down Consumption: Brian Czech #205 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
End of Ponzi Economy: Jerry Mander #203 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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Was globalization a temporary state that has run its course? That’s the case made by Jerry Mander, who believes there is plenty of evidence that th...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Limits to Growth: Dennis Meadows #116 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Fetish of GDP: Raj Patel #103 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“Gross Domestic Product has now become a fetish,” according to economist Raj Patel. Many undesirable things end up adding to GDP: wars, disease, an...

Bought by Indie3 Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Surviving a Hostile Climate on Local Food: Michael Brownlee #216
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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A scaled-up local food system may be the only way we can feed ourselves as we weather the storm of climate change. Until now, CSAs, urban gardens a...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Greg Mitchell, author of "The Tunnels"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Greg Mitchell, author of "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films that the JFK White House Tri...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Everything You Want to Know About Population: Bill Ryerson #213
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Marc Levinson, author of "An Extraordinary Time"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Marc Levinson,, author of “An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy.”

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Public Policy Brakes on Procreation? Travis Rieder #207
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Efforts to date are falling far short of achieving the greenhouse gas reduction needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. Bioethicist Travis...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: Research to Real Life (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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What does it mean to be a ‘research university?’ WorldCanvass guests answer that question from multiple perspectives on this program called “Resea...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
Economic Heresy: Herman Daly #113
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Future of Higher Education (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In May of 2012, Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to provide free courses to anyone, anywhere, sparking an intense debate about the future of...

Bought by WCNY and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Greed is Now Respectable, Part Two: Reverse Mortgages and Annuities
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In part two in our series, “Greed is Now Respectable” we visit again with Attorney Prescott Cole, employed by California Advocates for Nursing Home...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:56
Greed is Now Respectable: Part One -- Elder Financial Abuse
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Elder financial abuse may result from intentional deception promoted under the guise of "seminar," sometimes with a "free lunch" included. "Livin...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Monitoring climate change in the Antarctic
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Science Weekly podcast from guardian.co.uk, Credit: guardian.co.uk
We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Kim Kashkashian (A Very Proud Thief)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Kim Kashkashian, Credit: courtesy of WGBH
In addition to being the butt of musical instrument jokes, the viola suffers from “lack of solo music syndrome.” Violist Kim Kashkashian says that...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :14
Virtuoso Voices - Mark Elder (Silence is Murder)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Mark Elder, Credit: Shelia Rock
To clap or not to clap – that's the concert hall debate that continues to rage in various circles. In Beethoven and Mozart's day, applauding was w...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Robert Spano (The War Room)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Robert Spano
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra operates under a management approach known as “collective leadership.” Conductor Robert Spano is clearly in charge,...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and WETS


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Thomas Stacy (Copland's Afterthought)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Thomas Stacy, Credit: Chris Lee
The English horn is a specialty instrument -- a longer, deeper version of the oboe. One of the English horn's best known moments comes with the lo...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2009
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1