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National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gustav Mahler: Turmoil and Triumph
From: Charlie Warren
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"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world," said Mahler. Hear unique historical comment and quotes from biographers, authors, conductor...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WHRV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 5
Trans in the Eyes of God: Yvonne Taylor
From: Interfaith Voices
Series: Trans in the Eyes of God
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In the Church of England, you can only be baptized once. But some transgender people are seeking a new liturgy to reintroduce themselves to God, an...

Bought by WVTF and WPSU


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The uncertain future of segregated workshops
From: WXXI Rochester
Series: Exited
Caption: While Carrie D'Olivo says there's no particular task that she especially enjoys in her job at ArcWorks, she says she wants "to stay here as long as I can.", Credit: MALINDA RUIT/WXXI NEWS
For lots of people, leaving high school means looking for a job. But for some people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, finding a job...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Struck By Lightning
From: Outside Magazine
Series: Outside Podcast
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Science doesn't understand lightning very well—or how a strike affects the human body. Survivors sometimes claim to have super-senses, or special p...

Bought by KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KPIK-LP, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 41:33
  • Purchases: 9
Episode 1542
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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This hour features tributes to Smokin' Joe Kubek, Dave Lyons, and great new release Blues music.

Bought by WJSU and WSGE


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Minnesota Native News Special Edition: Native Sovereignty on Franklin Ave.
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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Nearly 8-thousand American Indians from over 40 different sovereign tribes live in Minneapolis. And since the 1960’s, the section of Franklin Avenu...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KVSC, WGZS, WDSE, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 5
Two Days in Ferguson, MO
From: Nick Jaworski
Series: One Degree of Separation
Caption: A memorial at the location of Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson, MO., Credit: Nick Jaworski
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.** Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Making The Old New Again
From: Rachel Hazlett
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Paradise of Bachelor's, a record company based in Chapel Hill, NC, re-releases old music that's become unavailable. The company's founder, Brendan ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
Etta James 1938-2012
From: John Luttrell
Caption: Etta James "At Last!" 1960, Credit: Argo Records
We remember the remarkable life and amazing career of one of the greatest female performers in music history, the legendary Miss Etta James, who pa...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Extra Innings # 2 - The Luckiest Man On The Face Of The Earth
From: Thom Butler
Series: Extra Innings
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Lou Gehrig's retirement speech from baseball is one of the most poignant and meaningful moments in all of American sport.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:58
Return to Camelot PT. 2
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
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As the Kennedy presidency begins, a veritable Who's Who of artists, writers, and composers visit the White House.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Paul Robeson: America's Sung Hero
From: Mark Lavonier
Caption: Paul Robeson
An exploration through the life and times of singer, activist, athlete and entertainer Paul Robeson.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2
Immigrant Families Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
The Kickradio Show -- Episode 24, Segment 3
From: The Kickradio Show
Series: The Kickradio Show -- Episode 24
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The Kickradio Show -- Episode 24, Segment 3. New Music Debuts

  • Added: Oct 03, 2008
  • Length: 23:06
The R&B Chronicles Booker T & the MG's & Jr. Walker & the All Stars
From: WHRV
Series: The R&B Chronicles
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Historical look at R&B Music

Bought by WDCB, KUCB, NPR Illinois, WFSU, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
HEART-to-HEART Pgm II: Children Sometimes Die
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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We expect that children will get sick from time to time. But we don't expect them to die.

Bought by Audible and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:39
  • Purchases: 2
HEART-to-HEART Pgm III: Respecting Diversity
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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Respecting Diversity looks at the influence of culture, race and religion on dying; how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not nece...

Bought by KMXT, WETA, Audible, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KALW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 5
City Lights
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Members of China's floating population recount their hopes and challenges as rural-urban migrants.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 27, 2004
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2