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MTPR’s Austin Amestoy & The Big Why
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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In this week's special crossover episode, we speak with Austin Amestoy, Morning Edition host at Montana Public Radio and host of The Big Why, an MT...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:39
Is Wokeness Killing Comedy?
From: Open to Debate
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Big Ag, Hungry People, Meanies in Congress and $6.41
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
Colin Hickey on the world of VidCon
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Colin Hickey, senior vice-president of operations at VidCon - a conference that brings together up to 75,000 online creators e...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Emmy Award Winning Set Designer John Shaffner Part 2
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week Justin returns to his conversation with Emmy Award winning production designer and art director John Shaffner about his career designing ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 1
Emmy Winning Set Designer John Shaffner
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week Justin talks with Emmy Award winning production designer and art director John Shaffner about his career designing some of the most iconi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-04-09 What's in a Game?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are games just a fun way to pass the time, or do they do something more for us?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
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
Right to Recreation: The History of African American Leisure Sites
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Feeling Our Way Forward: How A Biological Understanding of Feeling Will Change the World
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Max Henning, Neuroscientist and President of Novus Think Tank [https://www.maxahenning.com/], sheds light on why the future of humanity depends upo...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
(Holiday Re-Air 2022-12-28) The Impact of Sitcom Abbott Elementary: Putting a Critical Eye on Public Education
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can you remember the last time when the challenges that inner city public school teachers face were the subject of a popular TV series? Abbott Elem...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, WNYE, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
When complaints roll in, PBS's public editor uses them to spark community conversations.
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Interview with PBS Public Editor, Ricardo Sandoval Palos, about misinformation, disinformation, confirmation bias and how that effects programming ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Silver Tsunami: Challenges and Opportunities of Global Aging
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re taking a look at what economists and demographers are calling “the Silver Wave” — how the rapid aging of the world’s population wi...

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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
“Becoming American” with Wajahat Ali
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Wajahat Ali sits down with Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommenda...

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


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
30 Days of Wearing My Trash with Rob Greenfield - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Each US resident creates an average of 4.5 - 4.9 pounds of trash per day. For many, once it’s in the garbage can, it’s out of sight, out of mind. H...

  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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
Kristina Wong with Rebecca Solnit: The Power of Art and Aunties
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Had the government stepped in and done its job, had they not advocated against vaccines and mask mandates, we wouldn't have been frantically gathe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
MN Secretary of State Steve Simon
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on DCK we talk to MN sec of state Steve Simon about voting in MN. We talk about what’s different about voting in 2020, what’s the same and ho...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 18:51
Spectrum/ Science unscripted 08/18/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Schools open, antibodies fall & horses and llamas help - In this episode, co-host Gabe returns from the worst-hit coun...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Captain's Log Project Volume 13
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 12
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 11
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 10
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 25:00