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StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 01
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 9: Bird insurrection
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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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
Episode 6: In one lifetime
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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Richard reflects on the connection between his life’s work and that of his daughter Erika, who is leading the Biden/Harris transition team for the ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 10:30
Episode 4: Counting votes in Philadelphia
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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Richard revels in living in Philadelphia - the historical heart of U.S. democracy and home of his son Scott - while waiting anxiously for the votes...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 10:01
Making Sense of Klansville
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:45
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
The War of 1812
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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American Dream Players present a short, comic history of a war we've more or less forgotten, the War of 1812. Fought on both land and sea, this wa...

  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 12:39
Patriots Unmasked
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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Washington, Adams, Revere - names we still revere, but, of course, they were only human. "Patriots Unmasked" is American Dream Players' funny (ye...

  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 15:23
Queen for a Day
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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Vivacious, young,staunchly Catholic Mary of Scotland - traits bound to arouse the jealous enmity of her cousin, Elizabeth the First of England - an...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 16:30
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
Lifting Scores Lowers Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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What we actually learn from school and why it might be at risk.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Abroad (Ep. 23)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Anat Cohen is one of a growing number of Israeli jazz stars
Jazz may be an American-grown art form, but there are few places on the globe where the music hasn't found a home. This week, we go in search of th...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMUN, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 24
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Being "Post Protestant"
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the long-lasting influence of liberal Protestantism. Though conservative Evangelicals get more media attention,...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:12
Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press
Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
Harlem In Revolt - Part #2
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Harlem In Revolt - Part #1
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Program III: Topical and Protest Songs
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
Caption: Pete Seeger
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...

Bought by KUNM, KGLP, WOWD, KWMR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 21
Marriage Poster Gals Del & Phyllis: Their Politics
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
Marriage Poster Gals Del & Phyllis: A Love Story
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 3