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VW Rally
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: VW Bus at rally, Credit: renee wilde
Volkswagen enthusiasts of all kinds gather for a one day VW Rally at Kill Kare Dragway in Xenia, Ohio

  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:48
How to Spoil a Historic Town
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:41
Bought and Sold
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.
Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Thirsty Planet
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Residents of India, Israel confront water issues such as flooding, drought, pollution, and lack of access by the poor.
Scientists say most people on Earth will first experience climate change in terms of water — either too much or too little. This documentary explor...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, WVPE, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Cloudy Days
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Refugees and the trouble they're running from... Mark Twain... and Cloudy Days...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:59:06
Pompey, Wenceslaus and Iran
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Pompey is assassinated... Wenceslaus is murdered... and the President of Iran would speak before the UN...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:35:31
Beyond the Blackboard: Building Character in Public Schools
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in New York conquers a high ropes course., Credit: Stephen Smith
In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to teach young men the skills they needed to surv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WITF, Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
From Boots to Books: Student Veterans and the New GI Bill
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Teaching Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford
This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Civil defense sirens activated for severe weather
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Leigh Kamman remembered
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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For six decades, radio announcer and jazz enthusiast Leigh Kamman guided listeners on a musical journey through the sounds he loved: Jazz. KFAI pro...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
At the Crossroads, Part 4: New Hep C Drugs Promise A Cure, For A Big Price
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Caption: The FDA has approved dozens of so-called specialty drugs recently. Most are costlier than standard treatments, and most target a relatively small patient population suffering from a rare condition. But hepatitis C is far from rare. The FDA has approved do, Credit: Jake Harper / RIPR
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Since then, people with hepatitis C have had limited – and not very...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
At The Crossroads, Part 3: As Old Hepatitis C Treatment Fades Out, New Treatments Stoke Hope
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
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In just a few weeks, another pharmaceutical company will likely win FDA approval for a new drug to cure hepatitis C. That makes three breakthrough ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
At the Crossroads, Part 1: A Tale of Two Epidemics
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Caption: Rapid screening test for hepatitis C infection, Credit: Kristin Gourlay
Baby boomers make up the majority of the estimated five million people who have hepatitis C. Most caught the disease – from sharing needles, or a b...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 1
Sport bikers gather for a wheelie good time
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Readers form book clubs. Bowlers join leagues. What do motorcycle enthusiasts do? They ride, of course. Some head to Sturgis, South Dakota every ye...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:04
NaNoWriMo
From: David Berner
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
A starting place for former foster youth
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Darrell Molett in his living room, Credit: Rachel Wong
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:47
US Coal Company Shipments Polluting Colombia's Coast
From: Jennifer Dunn
Caption: Fisherman Juan Armesto in front of Drummond's port, Credit: J Dunn
Santa Marta residents say Alabama-based coal company Drummond is trashing their water and air.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1
Culture of Litigation
From: Zoe Sullivan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill, Vietnamese fisher folk on the Gulf Coast found themselves doubly affected. The disaster made it impossible fo...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 09:48
Second Chance Diploma: Examining the GED
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Studying for the GED at an adult education school in Washington, D.C., Credit: Emily Hanford
Millions of high school dropouts hope their ticket to a better job is getting a GED. But critics say passing a test is not the same as getting a hi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, WITF, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Future Docs 4: Flirting with Specialties, Treating Real Patients
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs
Caption: Second year medical student Sarah Rapoport, in Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
We're checking in on our Future Docs, Sarah and Peter, who've nearly reached the mid-way point of their second year of medical school. Reporter Kri...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:15
Future Docs 3: The Changing Face of Residency
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs
Caption: Resident Anne Kuritzky begins morning rounds on the surgical intensive care unit., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
After medical school, most doctors go through a kind of on-the-job training called residency. Residency programs have been around for a while, but ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:39