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August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., wh...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WUFT, WESM 91.3 FM, WCSU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 14
At the beginning of August, Illinois legalized medical marijuana, becoming the 20th state to do so. And less than a year ago, Washington and Colora...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KREV-LP, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
100 years ago this week, the thermometer in Death Valley, California, hit the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world: 134°F. This ...
Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, Louisville Public Media, WTJU and more
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Adam Kepinski from Poland went to Western Europe to make some money. He did and invested the earned funds in his political career and is now a resp...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 17:42
Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 2
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 2
Modern science has given us a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. But we don't use it.
Bought by WABE and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 2
Tomorrow’s primary recall election will determine the candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and which candidates will face each other in th...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 01:46
In part two in our series, “Greed is Now Respectable” we visit again with Attorney Prescott Cole, employed by California Advocates for Nursing Home...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 28:56
Elder financial abuse may result from intentional deception promoted under the guise of "seminar," sometimes with a "free lunch" included.
"Livin...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Washington D.C. hadn’t seen a disturbance like this since the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and there hasn’t been anything like it si...
- Added: May 18, 2011
- Length: 07:04
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
In addition to being the butt of musical instrument jokes, the viola suffers from “lack of solo music syndrome.” Violist Kim Kashkashian says that...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :14
To clap or not to clap – that's the concert hall debate that continues to rage in various circles. In Beethoven and Mozart's day, applauding was w...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :23
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra operates under a management approach known as “collective leadership.” Conductor Robert Spano is clearly in charge,...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and WETS
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 2
The English horn is a specialty instrument -- a longer, deeper version of the oboe. One of the English horn's best known moments comes with the lo...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
Beethoven's last piano sonata contains one of classical music's all-time most shocking moments. Right in the middle of the sonata, without warning...
Bought by MPR News Stations
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...
- Added: Mar 05, 2009
- Length: 04:30
Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :19
Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 08:00
Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 08:09
Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 15, 2008
- Length: 09:17
Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
