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She Sees Your Every Move
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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Michele Iversen photographs people through the windows of their homes at night without their knowledge.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, HowSound, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 5
Surveillance by unmanned aircraft...is our privacy at stake?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44
Jason Berry
From: Mark Dowie
Series: On The Fly
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Few reporters, and even fewer Catholic reporters have spent as much time and effort investigating the Roman Catholic Church as Jason Berry. In 1987...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:35
Real Good Words: Mark Munger - Laman's River
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: "Laman's River" by Mark Munger
Mark Munger joins Heidi Holtan on Real Good Words to talk about his new mystery novel titled "Laman's River."

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 2
Tibet: Protest or Sacrifice?
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Dr. Robert J. Barnett, Credit: Columbia University
As self-immolations con­tinue in Tibet, producer Rebecca Novick speaks with Dr. Robert Barnett, Director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program at Col...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Fire This Time
From: The Tibet Connection
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Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
Roll call of self-immolations in Tibet
From: The Tibet Connection
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Tibet Connection executive pro­ducer Rebecca Novick reports on the Tibetans who have self-??immolated in Tibet since February 2009.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:27
Just a Sample
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Questions surface about brain harvesting in Maine.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 3
2/16/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., on the Detrimental Effects of the Herbicide, Atrazine
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., biologist, University of CA-Berkeley. Hayes is known for his groundbrea...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
2/9/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Megan Westgate on the Non-GMO Project
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Do you agree that consumers have...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
TTT1125 June 20: AUTISM TODAY: What About the Children?
From: Andy Driscoll
Series: TruthToTell
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL queries four activists dealing in various aspects of the autism spectrum from causal inquiry through treatment and public polic...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:35
No ‘Fracking’ Way: The Perils of Natural Gas Drilling (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
Murder in the Himalayas
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Jonathan Green, author of "Murder in the High Himalaya", Credit: jonathangreenonline.com
Chinese troops shot and killed a 17-year-old Buddhist nun trying to flee Tibet. Foreign mountaineers got the whole thing on video. (Q&A with Jonath...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 06:40
Ghost Schools
From: Seattle Globalist
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Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
In Connecticut, Companies Choose Shared-Work Over Layoffs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:10
Non-profits Make Jobs by Supporting Micro-Enterprise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...

Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 3
How We Survive: Getting Creative About Jobs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.

Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
#53 - Left For Dead
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: The Guerette family of Pittston, Maine two years after attackers broke into their home with machetes. , Credit: Sarah Craig
"Left for Dead" is probably the most gruesome story reported by a Salt student. It's not for the faint of heart.

Bought by Radio Newark, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 17:50
  • Purchases: 3
Left for Dead
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Guerrette family copes with unthinkable horror.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 2
Our Nation Unhinged: Peter Jan Honigsberg Interview
From: Susan O'Leary
Series: LIVE FROM THE LEFT COAST with Angie Coiro
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LFTLC October 15th 2009 - Hour 2

  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 40:55
A Food Desert in California's Breadbasket
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...

Bought by KVNF and KVMR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 2
Our American "Empire" with controversal Harvard historian Niall Ferguson -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21
One Story of Disability Care in New Mexico
From: Rogi Riverstone
Series: KUNM News
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Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 11:27
"A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE POOR"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A modern look at the world's poor and the causes of poverty

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:48
  • Purchases: 1