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A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
Sampler for A SUDDEN LOSS - Memorial Day Tribute to Those Lost to COVID-19
From: Paul Ingles
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
We May Be In This Together, But We're Not All in the Same Boat
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
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Suzanne LaGrande interviews Leah Klass, creative consultant, mother of two, neighbor who works with asylum seekers.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 12:09
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Orange Grove
From: Kate Madara
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Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:28
2019-12-29 Ken Taylor Tribute
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Remembering Philosophy Talk's co-creator, chief cheerleader, and guiding light, Ken Taylor.

Bought by WFHB, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Listening to Our Better Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Through 2018-Part Two
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Drew Friedman
More looking back through the past year with tributes, tragedies, traitors and comedians in another remix from the cutting room floor of 2018

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 2
A Shortcut Through 2018
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A retrospective of another troubling year featuring the marches, the elections, the shootings, bombings and all the fake news, mixed with the music...

Bought by KUNM, 'The Sea', KRCB 104.9, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 10
Food Justice Is About Everything We Do
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Transformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity in Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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"Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Trouble: Doppelganger
From: WBEZ
Caption: Prison photos of Ricky Amos (left), and the wrongfully incarcerated Richard Jones (right)
Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seventeen years in, he discovers he has a look-alike, with the same...

Bought by KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KUNM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Empowering Utah Debtors
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Most of the lawsuits filed in Utah are debt collection suits, usually in the realm of a couple hundred dollars. And nearly all the debtors being s...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 15:14
Smart Talk - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary
From: WITF
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Take a trip down memory lane as Smart Talk celebrates Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’s 50th Anniversary.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WSKG, 90.5 WESA, and WPSU


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 16:26
Utah Jail Deaths
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Inmates in Utah jails die at a higher rate than any other state in the country. And the secrecy surrounding the issue is just as disturbing as the...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 15:20
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
From: Devon Strolovitch
Series: Inside the National Recording Registry
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Originally released as a B-side, so many deejays began playing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” that the record company reissued it as a single. It...

Bought by PRX Demo Station, KPIK-LP, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 8
Responding to the Opioid Drug Crisis in MN American Indian Communities
From: Native Voice One
Caption: Drug Overdose Report for American Indians - May 2016
Addiction to opioid pain killers and heroin is a daunting challenge to many Natives. There's a call for a culturally specific response base on trad...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 3
Area Voices: Voices from Standing Rock
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Mace , Credit: npr.org
A conversation with Simone Senogles and Noreen Hautala about the state of affairs in Standing Rock. This segment aired October 28, 2016.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 15:57
Episode 5: In and out of the biggest mental health facility in Los Angeles
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: LePriest Valentine, Credit: George Lavender
Meet LePriest Valentine, who kept winding up in the only sanctuary he could find after getting out of jail: Skid Row.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 4
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
WASPs / Honoring Heroic Legacies / Servicewomen Today / Reunions! / Cultivating Life After War
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Deanie Bishop Parish/WASPs Segment 2: Melvin Morris/ Medal of Honor Segment 3: Tanya Biank/Women in military Segment 4: Larry Kelle...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: May 25, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
From: Johnna Kerres
Caption: In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
This radio program features veterans of all eras beginning with World War II to the present day. Nine veterans share their recollections of before,...

Bought by 'The Sea' and WDSE


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:34
  • Purchases: 2
96 Acres: Cook County Jail, The Visible And Invisible by Maria Gaspar
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Artist and Chicago native, Maria Gaspar, interviews neighbors to uncover their opinions about what it means to live next to one of the largest pre-...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 13:37
Birth: A Rite of Passage or a Medical Event? A Mother's Day Special
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
Caption: Baby Drew with her Mommy, Caitlin, and her Mamma, Monica, Credit: Giovanna Rossi
How does the process of birth impact new motherhood? Is it a rite of passage or a medical event? Next time on Well Woman Radio we’ll hear from Pam ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1