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25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 9
Pulse of Performing Arts in a Pandemic: No Name Bar
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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KQAL's Matt Drewry checks in with the owners of local music venue, No Name Bar in Winona during the COVID-19 pandemic. Original air date: 12/08/20

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 22:18
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than simply r...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
We Are Still Here - "Mir Zaynen Do!"
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: We Are Still Here!
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory; Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: James Edward Brown and Michael Cline
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mike Cline and James Edward Brown pose at their StoryCorps interview on April 30, 2019 in Pensacola, FL. By Joseph Vincenza/WUWF.
James Edward Brown was a Navy corpsman working as a surgical tech on the ground during the Beirut Bombing of 1983. The bombing killed 241 U.S. serv...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:44
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: Hugh Turley Investigates His Death
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Hugh Turley
December 10th, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton. Questions linger. Was it a heart attack, accident, or murder?

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Best And Worst A Country Has To Offer
From: Virginia Lora
Caption: Building of the former Michael Bianco, Inc. Factory, Credit: Photo by Virginia Lora
In 2007, hundreds of undocumented immigrants working illegally in a leather-goods factory in New Bedford, MA, were arrested by Federal Immigration ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 5
Jonathan Katz, author of "The Big Truck That Went By"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Katz about his book, "The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster."

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:56
Selma 50th Anniversary Postcard
From: WUAL
Caption: 70,000 people gathered in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 2015 to remember the 50th anniversary of "bloody Sunday", Credit: Alabama Pubic Radio
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:57
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Jay Ipson is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 26:28
Taps and Air Raid Siren - Tonal
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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Two haunting sounds that are powerful, and have an unusual quality when heard together.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:06
Minnesota Disasters Traveling Exhibit
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 23:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
The Ip family had escaped both the Nazis and the Soviets. Once in the United States, Israel Ip carved out a life for his family. Jay married, took ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 27:47
  • Purchases: 1
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
Jay Ipson is the original survivor. He and his mother and father escaped selections in the the Kuvna ghetto in Lithuania. When Nazis tightened the ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Himmler's Angora
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Angora Rabbit and Heinrich Himmler
A look at a strange and curious relic of the Holocaust.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:15
Watching a Riot Through a Window
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Life-long Detroiter remembers the 67' riot

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
No Freedom of Speech at Constitution Day Parade
From: KVMR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Group Censored at "Freedom of Speech" Parade

  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:02
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
From: Philip Graitcer
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The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot was the closest thing to a race war ever known in Atlanta

  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 06:47
Reflections on Nagasaki by a Nez Perce Elder
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell reflects on witnessing the devasation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMPG, WYSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2005
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 7
Surviving The Holocaust
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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A survivor of 5 concentrations camps tells his story

  • Added: May 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
RN Documentary: Leaving a Mark - The Story of an Auschwitz Survivor
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Eva Schloss is the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank. She tells her own story of how she survived two years in hiding, nine months in Auschwitz a...

Bought by KCLU


  • Added: Apr 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1