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(December 27, 2023 Re-Air) Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project: Tackling Racism & Rice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Conversations in African American Music: Spirituals Revisited
From: WGTE Public Media
Caption: Dr. Louise Toppin
Dr. Louise Toppin, noted soprano and professor of voice at the University of Michigan, takes us on a tour of African American folk music: the spiri...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WVIA, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Growing Latinx Farm Workers to Farm Owners
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As a generation of white family farmers ages out of the business of farming, a rising cohort of Latinx workers stands ready to take up the slack.

Bought by KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Mahler's First Symphony
From: Aaron Cohen
Series: Embrace Everything - The World of Gustav Mahler
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This episode focuses on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major (1888), taking listeners back to the work’s origins in the street songs, folk tunes and ...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMNR, WGTE Public Media, Classic107.3, and WMNR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special: Our Economy, For and By The People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wunderbar Together - Two German songs that went around the world
From: Arndt Peltner
Series: Wunderbar Together
Caption: Peat Bog Soldiers / Moorsoldaten
During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
"Changi Concert Party"
From: Margaret Evans
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In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
Bix & Tram
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer
The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound
From: AIR
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“Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound” is a one-hour broadcast special from AIR hosted by Katie Davis celebrating tales from some of public...

Bought by KUER, KPIK-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, KCUR and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Vertical Farming: Food for the future.
From: Matthew Fidler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Matt Fidler and Dr. Despommier of Columbia University in New York talk about his new concept of Vertical Farming. That is, growing our food in a s...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Nov 26, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Community Radio, Venezuelan Style
From: Emily Howard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Voices of people involved in community radio in Venezuela

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 14:40
  • Purchases: 1
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
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"a rich tapestry of music, interviews and sound" - Phil Corriveau, Wisconsin Public Radio

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSUT, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 67
Skywalkers of Akwesane
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 26
Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
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For Women's History Month: this award-winning documentary chronicles her life and times.

Bought by WJCT, WKMS, WABE, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KCUR and more


  • Added: Nov 26, 2003
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 24