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We hear from artist william cordova about the 2014 documentary "silent parade," featuring the New Orleans band, The Soul Rebels, who faced off Robe...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 19:45
The penguin population in Punta Tombo, Argentina, has declined by 43 percent since 1987. Not all of those birds are dying, but expert Dee Boersma, ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 17:44
What is a news desert? We explore the definition—a community with limited access to credible and comprehensive news and information—by traveling to...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 19:21
Does putting off marriage mean people no longer want to say “I do?” To learn more about this trend, we spoke to couples who are waiting to wed—in t...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 24:49
We hear from authors Kristin Higgins, Anne Enright, and David Pepper--they all have new novels to tell us about, and later in the show we’ll hear f...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 59:54
We’ll hear from author Rachel Harrison--she’s written a female-centric horror story called The Return; Stephanie Wrobel explores a complicated moth...
- Added: Jun 10, 2020
- Length: 01:00:02
In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
John Grimaldi has been performing music for over 40 years and has over 18 albums under his belt.
Today we explore one of his earlier projects, The ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:19
Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida to find the small wood-frame house on fire. Th...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:24
In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 24:23
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 34:28
Such a Fun Age is a debut novel from writer Kiley Reid. It’s a story “ about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-inte...
- Added: Mar 01, 2020
- Length: 11:27
- Added: Mar 01, 2020
- Length: 59:58
This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 3
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes founding member of The Bryds, member of the Rock’n’Roll Hall of...
Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBBI Alaska, KHNS, WETS, KRZA and more
- Added: Feb 06, 2020
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 19
In 1991, President George Herbert Walker Bush was looking for ways to stem the illegal drug trade in Colombia, by giving more incentives for legal ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 04:55
Author Tom Clavin's new book All Blood Runs Red: The legendary life of Eugene Bullard is his new book; Minnesota writer, Amy Pendino and her debut ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 59:59
Author Samuel Shem --his new satirical novel is "Man’s 4th Best Hospital;" author Ruta Sepetys--her new book is called "The Fountains of Silence"--...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 59:46
We hear about a fun and charming new children’s book, Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum, by Andrew Joyner; Bemidji community member Rucha Ambikar on growing...
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 59:51
Contributor Andrew Dziengel talks with movie expert Brian Raftery about his new book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen.
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 12:09
Philadelphia-based art historian Deborah Barkun talks about the pleasure and critical thinking that she discovers each time she explores the Venice...
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 16:40
The story of the African men and women who carried the body of the famous explorer Dr. Livingstone across Africa so that his remains could be retur...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 08:44
- Purchases: 1
In a not-too distant time, where public gatherings are illegal, making concerts impossible, two women are willing to break the law for their love o...
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 13:14
Carl Sewall gives us his review on Don DeLillo’s latest novel, Zero K.
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 10:41
E.R. Ramzipoor's The Ventriloquists; Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day; Brad Meltzer children’s book series Ordinary People Change the World, hi...
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 59:59
