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One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
New organ music, from the Alex Norris Organ Quartet, and Chris Foreman. Also sax-drum duets, new and old, and Vijay Iyer plays a classic Coltrane p...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
There’s an undeniable problem with our criminal justice system, but one organization offers some hope. To date, The Innocence Project has exonerate...
Bought by KENW, WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPVL and more
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 7
What’s patriotic about bluegrass music. Some of it is obvious. And some is just a little under the surface.
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 06:52
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 27:16
Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
J.M.W. Turner is perhaps the most important British painter--you would surely recognize an image of Tintern Abbey--and yet his life story has remai...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 03:42
- Purchases: 2
He used to be one of the many thousands of child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in dozens of conflicts around the world. Ishmael...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 09:49
- Purchases: 2
In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
Anne’s particular talent with her cookbooks is creating well written and easy-to-follow recipes. And as many readers know, this is not always true ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 1
avant-garde cellist Maya Beiser puts a unique spin on the blues on her new album "Uncovered"
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 3
How China looks to students in two Chinese Schools near Seattle, WA.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:13
Songs about coffee (!) and new vibraphone music from Jason Marsalis and Jason Adasiewicz
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
I am in a lab tucked away in the basement of a Stanford University engineering building. Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash is showing me a tiny...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 2
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
When big business news breaks, public relations teams try to get out in front of the story. But that wasn’t always the case. PR in the 19th century...
Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
In the 19th century, Richmond, Virginia was central to the American slave trade, earning the city more than 4 million dollars annually. A new exhib...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
Laura Poitras talks irony, leaps of faith, and being nominated for the Homeland Security Watch List.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 18:35
College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
New jazz that draws on folk music and music of the American South with violinist Regina Carter and pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 16:14
Orloff is an Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA who incorporates energy medicine in her practice. In her fifth book she invites reader...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 2
