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Life in a Goiter Belt (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One young woman in southwest Virginia has become a super-sleuth. With a head full of questions and a heart full of concern, one college student tea...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 4
Finding Bix (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One hundred years ago, the first jazz recordings were made, and not many years after a young man named Bix Beiderbecke picked up the cornet. Beider...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #105: In Studio: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
College Credits for Free (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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It used to be that a high school education was enough to support a comfortably middle class lifestyle. But these days, it takes a lot more to get a...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Cherokee Country (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Cherokee Nation was one of the most powerful tribes living in Virginia, five hundred years ago. Today, the Cherokee are one of the largest Nati...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 3
Africa's Beating Heart (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The daffodils are blooming, days are getting longer, and gardeners are feeling those familiar twinges of excitement. At the same time, about eight ...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
The Nightingale Trio Sings Virtuosic Versions of Eastern European Folksongs
From: KBEM
Caption: The Nightingale Trio, Credit: Margie O’Loughlin
The Nightingale Trio presents Eastern European folksongs. In the process, the group gives American audiences glimpses into the ways of life in East...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 07:34
The Golden Age of Black Baseball (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
From Kremlin to Kremlin (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We may be in a period of historic closeness between Russia and the United States, but there was a time when hundreds of African-American scientists...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 4
Hidden Figures (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 4
Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Too Many Zombies (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Walking Dead, a TV horror series about a worldwide zombie apocalypse, has been the most popular show with 18 to 49 year olds since for the past...

Bought by KENW, WEZU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 3
Solving the Klezmer Mystery (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Holiday Specials
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After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
Solving the Klezmer Mystery (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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After nearly a decade of sleuthing to find the pieces, a groundbreaking album of previously unknown recordings of Jewish klezmer music has been rel...

Bought by KENW, WEZU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Maya Angelou's Africa (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
Decolonizing Dinner
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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There's a lot of talk about food these days, from farmer's markets to the local food movement. But in some communities, there's a whole different c...

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, WRGY, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 32:45
  • Purchases: 4
Treaty Tribute (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are preparing to celebrate that first feast shared between Native Americans and European Pilgri...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT -- Ross Adam Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Ross Adam talks about film as propaganda, the astonishing reach of Netflix, and what happens when you get what you wish for

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 13:46
Two Books: "The Beatitudes of Peace" & "1941: Fighting the Shadow War"
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
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On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popula...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
THE ROYAL ROAD -- Jenni Olson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Jenni Olson talks intent, interpretation, and slowing things down.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 14:30
Part Two: Teaching a Tribal College
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Previously on CC, we brought you Part One of “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State Universit...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:05
Part One: Teaching at a Tribal College
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of CC, we bring you “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State University Profess...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 50:24
ZERO DAYS -- Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O'Murchu Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Eric Chien, Alex Gibney, Liam O'Murchu ,San Francisco, CA 5/11/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Alex Gibney , Eric Chien, and Liam O'Murchu talk resisting paranoia, code as character, and the psychology of secrets.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 23:57
Allergy Season (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With spring come flowers, green grass, and new leaves on the trees. But those welcome sights also bring some not-so-welcome allergies. What causes ...

Bought by KENW, KRZA, and WABE


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 3
Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Vimal Patel cooks inside -- and outside -- a room in the Day's Inn he operates in North Charleston. , Credit: Photo by Wade Spees for the Post & Courier.
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 2