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The Attica Liberation Faction
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week we are honoring the anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. The current National Prison Strike began on August 21st, the anniv...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:06
The Real Dragon- George Jackson’s Legacy and the National Prison Strike
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we’re sharing selections from an historic interview with George Jackson, whose assassination on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Que...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Strike Season
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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As we approach the August 21st launch of the national prison strike, Kite Line is focusing on the historic and recent precedents for the current pr...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:57
The Causes and Costs of Sex Offense Laws
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we hear from Timothy Stewart-Winter, an Associate Professor at Rutgers University with a background studying sexuality and incarce...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:38
23 Hours In & One Hour Out- The View From Menard
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share the words and experiences of Salomon X, a former prisoner in Illinois. In the first of two episodes with Salomon, he describes ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:15
The Rise of Mass Incarceration, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our news this week focuses on the prisoners who are fighting California’s wildfires for as little as a dollar an hour while actually fighting fires...

Bought by KSPC


  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise of Mass Incarceration, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week we share the first part of a lecture by Elizabeth Hinton delivered at IU on October 12. In her talk, she traces the creation and rise of...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 27:34
Fighting Words
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we have two contributions –one closer to home and one many more miles away- but both aim to describe an unfair relationship of power eac...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:07
Family Values: A Conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur. He is a former underground combatant with the United Freedom Front, which car...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 28:27
Prisoner Perspectives on Reform
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We cover a range of news in this week’s episode- from a brief history of Black August and the upcoming August 19th prison demonstrations, to curren...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:46
“They haven’t deterred our work” Ramona Africa on the MOVE 9 and State Violence
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share a conversation with Ramona Africa, who talks about the MOVE 9 case, the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house, and the relation...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:57
Finding Wonder and Meaning in a Book by Carl Sagan’s Daughter
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sasha Sagan and Mat Kaplan enjoy a moment in the Planetary Society studio., Credit: Planetary Society/Merc Boyan
Bill Nye says of Sasha Sagan’s new book, “Sagan finds the meaning of life everywhere—with her family, around the world, and especially among the st...

Bought by KCNP, KDNK, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Big Pond #50: Showing Our Colors
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 2
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doris Kearns Goodwin
What makes a great leader? This week on Sea Change Radio, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
Earthrise! The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The timeless "Earthrise" image captured by the Apollo 8 astronauts as they circled the Moon., Credit: NASA/Sean Doran
This is the 50th anniversary of the most audacious space mission in history. Apollo 8 blazed a path for the first moon landing seven months later, ...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Moon Mission 3D from Queen Guitarist Brian May and David Eicher
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Moon Mission 3D: A New Perspective on the Space Race, Credit: MIT Press
You haven’t seen the best pictures from the Apollo era and other great space achievements till you’ve seen them in 3D. Queen guitarist and astroph...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Space, Rockets, and a Senatorial Conversation in Huntsville, Alabama
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Saturn V moon rocket on display inside the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Host Mat Kaplan begins a two-episode visit to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, recorded this week at the US Space and Rocket Center...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KDNK, KCSB-FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Chasing New Horizons to Pluto with Alan Stern
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New Horizons PI Alan Stern, Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan and astrobiologist/science communicator David Grinspoon , Credit: Alan Stern
The New Horizons mission was a triumph, revealing Pluto as an utterly unique and beautiful world. The entire, surprisingly dramatic tale has now b...

Bought by KDNK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Jeremy Lent: Human History and the Climate
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeremy Lent
As we move into a new year, and try to square 2017 in our rear view mirrors, it's an opportune moment to contemplate how we avoid repeating the mis...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:40
The Soundtrack to Vietnam (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde is a healer, a poet, and a black studies practitioner. Abegunde is a co-director of a month-long series of readings a...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:53
Ed Stone and Forty Years of Voyager in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Voyager image of Jupiter's moon Io taken as the volcano called Loki erupted., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
It is most space fans’ favorite planetary science mission, and with good reason. We visit with the man who has been in charge of Voyager mission sc...

Bought by WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Recalling Past Struggles
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
The Death Penalty
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:58