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What is moving day like at the White House?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Staff have six hours to move one first family out and a new First Family in, and it has to be seamless.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 07:55
Paul Goldstein – "The Artist’s Right of Ownership"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conspiracy Bites: Who Is Behind What We Eat?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From the dinner table to the dark web.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Politcal Satire and Presidential Politics
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover
This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
Stop Saving the Planet - An Environmentalist Manifesto
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jenny Price is an ardent advocate for increasing public environmental access, activism, and effectiveness in solving the myriad of challenges we fa...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Civics 101: Is Santa A Criminal?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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In an uncharacteristic wash of holiday cheer, today we investigate how the actions of Santa could be interpreted in a court of law.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 23:35
  • Purchases: 1
Bill Browder on Exposing Russia’s Web of Corruption, and Surviving Putin’s Wrath
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In a gripping interview with Ray Suarez, Browder recounts a hunt for missing money that led him to discover a corruption and conspiracy plot involv...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Planet 06/10/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Living Planet brings you another podcast we think you'll enjoy: the Africa Climate Podcast. As the climate — and the weath...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Josh Weiss discusses "Beat the Devils"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Josh Weiss is a novelist who lives in Philadelphia.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 26:48
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 12/17/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Building anew – from our houses to our cities How should we construct our houses and cities to better withstand a changin...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/16/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: There really are two different pills you'll be able to take soon if you catch the coronavirus. Also, why don't people trust...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Three): Hail the Flip-Flopping Egomania of Veep
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In this episode we talk to David Mandel head writer and showrunner of the iconic HBO satire, Veep.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 39:26
Lerner, Gerda Ph.D. — "The Foremother of Women’s History"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Political Junkie Evergreen 10-09-20
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory University, discusses her book, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.” John...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:58
The Transcendent Laugh: Comedy & Partisanship, with special guest, Myq Kaplan
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Myq Kaplan
Ok, Comedians, make America laugh with surprising, original jokes that offend absolutely no one and work equally well in our very blue, very red an...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 21:43
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/01/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Can science help persuade those who are stubborn about rejecting science? What cat medicine have to do with developing a ne...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Forty Million Missing: America’s Independent Voters and Voices
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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By most measures, the US has over 40 million independent or unaffiliated voters representing a third or more of the electorate. Yet despite large a...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 24:05
Front Lines of Partisanship with Dr Charles Wheelan
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In Episode 2, our guests include a former Republican speechwriter, a former centrist Democratic congressional candidate, a former Economist Magazin...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 23:18
Priming with Purple
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How did these United States get so thoroughly partisan? How do we get less partisan? Can independent-minded Americans help bridge the divide? The...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 12:01
Joe Exotic Interview
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Van Sounds
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A 2016 interview with Joe Exotic. At the time he was running for president.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 13:00
KNIVES OUT -- Rian Johnson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rian Johnson, San Francisco, CA 11/11/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rian Johnson talks being human, toying with an audience, and how the late, great Ricky Jay makes a cameo.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 13:18
Episode 1 - All Rise
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:44
  • Purchases: 1
Wilkerson, Isabel — America’s Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One
From: Barry Vogel
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In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Political Junkie 2018 Midterm Election Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin and an all-star lineup of political reporters, commentators and special guests for a full hour of analysis of the 2...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJSU, Spokane Public Radio, KVNF, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5