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Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
Metro's oldest pet cemetery reflects enduring sentiments towards furry friends
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A gravestone for a pet named Juan Jose at Memorial Pet Cemetery with the epitaph "so small, so sweet, so soon.", Credit: Matthew Schneeman, KFAI
The metro area hosts a variety of cemeteries and mausoleums. You may have a favorite – Uptown’s Lakewood perhaps? Or maybe a smaller, more secluded...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:34
Women's History Month: Indigenous Women and Leaders’ Lessons on Community Care, a Tipi Town Approach
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: Teaching Anne Frank
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An expert panel discusses the impact the Diary of Anne Frank continues to have on generations born long after her death. Among the panelists is Ron...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:29:38
StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.
Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1
Standing With Ukraine
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Standing With Ukraine!, Credit: Shepard Fairey
As Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts an unjustified invasion and starts his own war, We Stand with Ukraine- mixing reactions from around th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
AG 22-08: Billie Holiday and The Big Bands, 2/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We usually think of Billie Holiday as a small-group singer, but she also worked with several big bands. This week on Afterglow, we’ll hear Holiday’...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
StoryCorps: Phillip Lazowski and Ruth Lazowski
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Raynita Snipes Johnson and Gene Robinson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.
Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Annie Barrows
From: New Letters on the Air
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Next time on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, hear Annie Barrows, the co-author of the international best seller and book club favorite, THE GUERNSEY LITERA...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut 2021 Tribute Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Betty White
An extra hour of celebration of those who've left us this year, with music and events that broke too late to be included in A Shortcut Through 2021

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
AG 22-02: The Artistry Of Stephen Sondheim, 1/3/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we remember the artistry of American songwriter Stephen Sondheim, and his many contributions to the American songbook, like “Small World...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Marking 100 years with Celebration and Reflection at Ingebretsen's
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Ingebretsen's Scandanavian Gifts, Credit: Britta Greene
It’s the busiest time of the year at Ingebretson’s, a Scandanavian market and gift shop on Lake Street in Minneapolis. As Ingebretson’s marks its 1...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Cherie's Letters
From: Lori Mortimer
Series: Mementos
Caption: The letters Cherie inherited, Credit: Cherie Louise Turner
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
Legend of La Telesita
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: La Telesita
Tangos, folkloric chacarera music, and the famous Argentine myth about the girl who danced herself to death.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 172: Roselle and Michael
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that somethi...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 32:23
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we look...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 34:47
Episode 165: Unfit
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
Korematsu v United States & Japanese American Internment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WCMU Michigan, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 14
StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2120: Refeed: The Power of True Stories to Drive Change, 5/20/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll look at how true stories are told on the screen. From narrative films adapted from true events to documentaries that ex...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
GN_4.58_Tree Hugger
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The word "Tree Hugger" can often be used in a derogatory manner. Although many people don't know its historical significance is much more than long...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30

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