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2024-01-26 Indigenous Perspectives: What Makes a Just Transition?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
240126: Indigenous Perspectives: What Makes a Just Transition?, 1/26/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Savannah Bustillo's Tongue Twisters in Graphite
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: "Enchilada" , Credit: Savannah Bustillo
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:42
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
21-41 Castlenuovo-Tedesco, Kile Smith’s “The Dawn’s Early Light,” Interview: Craig Hella Johnson
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Craig Hella Johnson, Credit: Craig Hella Johnson
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features Mario Castlenuovo-Tedesco’s rarely heard Guitar Concerto No. 2, “Concerto Sereno,” the wor...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 59
21-40 Zamboni, Rodrigo, Nico Muhly’s “How Little You Are,” Interviews: Craig Hella Johnson, John Dearman, Esteli Gomez
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: The Singing Guitar cd, Credit: Conspirare
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Rodrigo, Zamboni, and the world premiere recording of American Composer Nico Muhly...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, WHQR, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 62
The Big Ponder #17: Listening
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Our ability to hear is fully formed after just four and a half months in the womb. From this early age, sound shapes our worldview. Jim McKee, a so...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot and Military Voices Initiative: Alvy Powell and Yvonne Powell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alvy Powell and Yvonne Powell at their StoryCorps Interview in Norfolk, Virginia on July 14th, 2021.
Master Sgt. Alvy Powell Jr. talks with his sister, Yvonne Powell, about being the oldest enlisted soldier in the Army, and the role Yvonne played i...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WHRV, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 3
Laverne Cox, Sam Feder: Trans Lives Depend on Owning Our Stories
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

Bought by WORT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
David Olney Tribute
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 799 (Air Dates: Apr 22 - 26, 2020) Revered songwriter David Olney died Saturday, January 18, 2020, after suffering an apparent heart attack du...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , KNBA, WHRV, High Plains Public Radio, WETS and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #39: Quietude – In Search of Radio Silence
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In this radio travelogue, culture writer and journalist Bilal Qureshi explores Germany’s capital Berlin to find out about local origins, regulation...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? We visit artist Mary Miss's organization, The Cit...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS -- Tim Wardle Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Tim Wardle, San Francisco, CA 4/8/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Tim Wardle talks paranoia, non-coincidences, and existential crises.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 18:41
Retrospective: Dave Gardner #223 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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A glimpse of why the Conversation Earth series was created and how guests and topics are chosen. Dave and Kaitlyn also share highlights from the fi...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
PN 17-31 "Your Kingdom" by Eleni Sikelianos
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Eleni Sikelianos, poet
Eleni Sikelianos explores the evolution of the human body.

Bought by KUER, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Remembering Thomas S. Monson
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson was a noted storyteller. He asked Mormons to be kind, honest, and to serve others. But when it came to cont...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 19:30
Susan Jacobs on the Art of Music Supervision
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
WoodSongs 896: The Looping Brothers with Si Kahn and Still on the Hill
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Master musician and storytelling from Still on the Hill.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes German bluegrass trio the Looping Brothers with folksinger icon Si Kahn p...

Bought by WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WLIW, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
The Artist in Troubled Times -- John Sayles Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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John Sayles talks art, timing, and why no one else edits his films.

  • Added: May 20, 2017
  • Length: 11:13