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Left, Right & Center is KCRW’s show where we take on all the political issues -- even the complicated ones that might divide your own family.
- From: Left, Right & Center
- Updated: Jul 12, 2023
- From: No Small Endeavor
- Updated: Aug 14, 2023
- From: WGUC/ WVXU
- Updated: May 21, 2018
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Listen to four short audio stories produced in our first-ever summer workshop!
- From: Fusion Youth Radio
- Updated: Nov 10, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 03:06
"Charlie's Garden Journal" is a weekly program for both the amateur and the experienced gardener. It's hosted by expert horticulturalist Charlie Nardozzi; a nationally recognized garden writer, consultant, and speaker. From lawns and lilacs, to giant pumpkins, perennials, and pests; Charlie Nardozzi covers a lot of ground.
- From: Vermont Public
- Updated: Aug 08, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:29
Once the hobby of a small number of environmentalists, recycling is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Here is a look at how changing economic times affect four states' efforts to deal with waste.
- From: KQED
- Updated: Aug 09, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 04:25
Burning coal creates coal ash. Sometimes the ash is recycled, but more commonly it's stored in a pond or landfill. In Louisville, Kentucky, residents say that ash is escaping that landfill and contaminating their homes.
- From: Louisville Public Media
- Updated: Aug 04, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 05:40
For the Midwest farmer, every year is unique. Early spring. Long, cold winter. Sizzling heat wave. Mother Nature throws up constant curve balls. So, honestly, what’s the big deal about climate change? Well, that’s what we’re exploring here at Harvest Public Media in our ongoing series “Climate Pains: America’s Breadbasket braces for change in the weather.”
- From: Harvest Public Media Group
- Updated: Aug 01, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 03:33
Fun, entertaining, science-based radio show exploring critical issues regarding our natural world.
- From: Catalina Island Conservancy
- Updated: Jul 31, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 01:30
MPR's Youth Radio Series pairs high school and college-age reporters from diverse backgrounds with an experienced MPR producer to create compelling stories for MPR News.
- From: MPR News Stations
- Updated: Aug 01, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 06:39
Virtuoso Voices offers you three types of classical music fundraising messages: Produced Funder Spots, Un-hosted Funders and Straight-read Funder Spots. All feature classical music's leading performers and conductors. Use these Funder Spots during your classical music fundraising shifts to add variety, credibility and authority to your on-air fundraising sound. The Virtuoso Voices Funders Series includes Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Evelyn Glennie, Stephen Hough, Richard Stoltzman, Yolanda Kondonassis, Andrew Litton, Leila Josefowicz, Roy Goodman, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Andre Watts, the Canadian Brass, Riccardo Muti, Menahem Pressler, Garrick Ohlsson, Marin Alsop, Sharon Isbin and many others.
- From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
- Updated: Jul 27, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: :51
Tales from the South is true stories told by the Southerners that lived them, in front of a live audience during dinner at Starving Artist Cafe' in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock. The ancient art of storytelling over a great meal is still alive!
- From: Paula Morell
- Updated: Jul 22, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 29:00
During the Great Depression, the building and the Club struggled financially. The Club, however, was on the way to being recognized as one of the world's premier journalistic organizations and managed to find additional funding from wealthy individuals. Regular weekly luncheons for speakers began in 1932 with an appearance by President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1932 the Club has hosted an average of 70 luncheons each year which provides a national forum for Presidents, Prime Ministers, business and cultural leaders, members of the Cabinet and Congress. Over the years, the Club has hosted such newsmakers as Nikita Khrushchev, Madame Chiang Kai Shek, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Charles deGaulle, Boris Yeltsin, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, and the Dalai Lama.
- From: National Press Club
- Updated: Jul 21, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 54:00
Americans seem to be spending a lot of time talking about how and what they eat. Credit the local food movement for much of this discussion. From home gardens to farmers markets to a concern about food miles, Americans are connecting to food in new ways. Some “lovacores” even advocate for food systems to be rebuilt on the premise of a local food advantage.
- From: Harvest Public Media Group
- Updated: Jul 20, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 04:45
True stories told by the everyday Southerners who lived them, told weekly in front of a live audience at Starving Artist Cafe' in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock, Arkansas. Once a month features a well-known Southerner telling his/her own true story.
- From: Paula Morell
- Updated: Jul 18, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 28:54
This is a series of news reports and features about the BP oil spill commissioned by KRVS-FM in Lafayette, LA. It is part of the larger GulfWatch local reporting initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and managed by Louisiana Public Broadcasting. For more information on GulfWatch you can go to this link: http://www.publicmediaexchange.org/
- From: Richard Ziglar
- Updated: Jul 18, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 07:16
Explores the voices and experiences of Quakers today as seen through the eyes of one young searcher.
- From: Madeline Schaefer
- Updated: Jul 17, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 36:30
Minneapolis Public School teachers talk with Kevin O'Connor about their accomplishments.
- From: KBEM
- Updated: Jul 14, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 17:11
Who doesn't love arbitrary restrictions? Twitter gives us 140 CHARACTERS and we're giving ourselves 140 SECONDS to be witty, clever, insightful, humorous... storytellers.
- From: TurnStyle
- Updated: Jul 13, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:17
Long Haul Productions’ award-winning Song/Story series marks an innovative approach in radio journalism: collaborative storytelling that blends carefully-crafted interview and documentary tape with original songs written as an integral part of the story’s narrative
- From: Long Haul Productions
- Updated: Jul 18, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 13:16
On an average day in Philadelphia's public schools in 2010, 25 students, teachers, or other staff members were beaten, robbed, sexually assaulted, or victims of other violent crimes. Philly Youth Radio's "Students of Violence" explores the lives and stories behind alarming statistics like this - from the perspectives of those who are most affected by school violence and bullying. The series includes four compelling commentaries about the violence that has changed the lives of young people in Philadelphia.
- From: Philly Youth Radio
- Updated: Jul 10, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 03:54
“Cow Town to Boom Town” is a series of audio-visual essays about the effects of the natural gas boom on the community of Pinedale, Wyoming. The project draws on interviews with residents conducted by the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center, as part of their oral history collection “Wyoming’s Energy Boom, 1995-2010.”
- From: Claire Woodard
- Updated: Jul 08, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 05:21
Two-minute analyses of the serious environmental, economic and social crises facing the world and the US, with analogy made to the catastrophic attack on Pearl Harbor. Pieces are embedded in World War II music and audio recordings.
- From: Judy Lubow
- Updated: Jul 05, 2011
- Avg Piece Length: 02:07