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Holocaust Remembrance and the Responsibility of Bystanders
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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To create thought around Yom Hashoah, known in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, Radio Curious revisits an archive interview with Ralph Appelba...

Bought by KWIT and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
329-Near Neighbor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are able to find small space rocks before they make a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Push for wind farms along Great Lakes sparks controversy
From: Great Lakes Today
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Apex Clean Energy plans to build dozens of wind turbines across the Great Lakes states -- including Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois – to take ...

Bought by WCPN, Delta College Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Navigators Part 3
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Birth of an Answer
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....

Bought by KENW and WABE


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Celebrate MLK, But Honor One Who Went Before Him
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In January we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest icons of the 20th century, known by all as the strongest advoca...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Give War and Peace a Chance (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigai...

Bought by WCNY, KUNV, KKRN, WTJU, and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Making Contact’s 20th Anniversary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A 20th anniversary edition of Making Contact. We hear the story of the program’s creation by volunteers, and how this little radio show became part...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Gas mask exercise, Scott Field, Illinois.1942. , Credit: Library of Congress
Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 44:21
Patrick Henry’s “Thunder Speech” (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We interview the author of a new book about Patrick Henry. Plus: a visit to the "ghost church" where Henry heard the great orator Samuel Davies as ...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Patrick Henry’s “Thunder Speech” (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We interview the author of a new book about Patrick Henry. Plus: a visit to the "ghost church" where Henry heard the great orator Samuel Davies as ...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Grace Notes
From: Capital Public Radio
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World War I was a real blow to the European musical community. They were utterly unprepared for the war’s cruelty, and composers found it difficult...

Bought by WVTF, KHNS, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Veterans and Disabilities (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
From: Joyride Media
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Brand-new one hour special from Joyride Media takes in depth look at Roy Orbison's 1989 posthumous comeback album, "Mystery Girl."

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Harford Community Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: President John F. Kennedy greets the crowd in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, shortly before his assassination., Credit: Library of Congress.
On November 22nd, 1963, 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas – a tragedy that inspired conspira...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, XRAY.fm, WRPI, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
PROMO - Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: President John F. Kennedy greets the crowd in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, shortly before his assassination., Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specifi...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: :30
Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 19th, 1863., Credit: Library of Congress
November 19th, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It’s one of the most iconic speeches in American history, ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMMT, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
PROMO: Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 19th, 1863. , Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, August 28th, 1963, Credit: National Archives
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
Promo - "The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington"
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, 8/28/1963, Credit: (National Archives)
30-second promo for "The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington" with 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag

Bought by WUFT and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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New research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds.

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, Radio Newark, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 4
The Founding Fathers Fouled Up
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Civil War 150th: Why They Fought [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from “Field of Gettysburg” by T. Ditterline, 1863 , Credit: Library of Congress
The Battle of Gettysburg took place 150 years ago this week – the bloodiest of the Civil War. Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers were kill...

Bought by WUFT, WLPR , WOUB, WTJU, and WMMT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Civil War 150th: The Road to War [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Constitutional Union Party meeting flyer, 1860, Credit: Perkins Library, Duke University
With the 150th anniversaries of the Battle of Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg coming up, BackStory is re-airing its special series on the Civi...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WLPR , Prairie Public, WEZU and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7