Making Contact

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Making Contact, is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on over 160 radio stations in the USA, Canada and elsewhere. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news. - Ordinary people talk about how public policy affects their daily lives, families and communities, and share positive ways to solve problems. - Most shows are “evergreen” – can be played any time. See years of archived documentaries are available. - Excellent production quality and customer service.

Series

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670 Pieces

An international radio program that links people, vital ideas, and important information


Pieces

Caption: War Memorial, Credit: Dixie Lawrence (Creative Commons)
More than 150,000 people sign up for the US military every year. Their reasons for joining vary widely, from those hoping for financial help throug...

Bought by WNJR and KMUN


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wall Street during the Panic of 1907, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
From family friends and trusted confidants to the present day, Nomi Prins, journalist and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, retraces the...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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20 years after the founding of The Zapatistas, the group’s influence has spread far beyond Mexico’s border through music and art. Producer Alejand...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Scrum-1, Credit: Maree Reveley
They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That's a question being asked in locker rooms the wo...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Reporter Joanne Mar takes us to a middle school in San Francisco that took a chance and moved away from zero-tolerance discipline. The decision has...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face...it can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly has...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1