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19th Amendment: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:02
Money
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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A brief history of American money, from silver certificates to a greenback dollar to a freshly-struck penny.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 18:35
OLD SCHOOL: Mistletoe Jam
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: “It felt like a kiss...”
Professor Mikey's Old School Christmas special presents a detention hall you may not remember but you will never forget!

Bought by KDUR and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Tango Tenors
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Tito Schipa
The tenors of tango and their connections to opera.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pugliese’s Passion and Politics
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Osvaldo Pugliese
The story of Osvaldo Pugliese's music and his conflicts with the Argentine government.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Republican Party
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump?

  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 23:12
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
Slow Flower Movement Changing the Floral Industry
From: renee wilde
Series: COUNTY LINES
Caption: Rosalie and Katie Loading up Flowers for Their Wedding, Credit: renee wilde
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
Primaries and Caucuses
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Choosing who we're gonna choose.

Bought by WNYO and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 2
PE 1934
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Checking it out.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KWMR, WFHB, KSJD and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
Tuna became the 'go to' fish because it was cheap and plentiful. we look at the pitch for tuna.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 1
Green Home Reno
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Veteran forest campaigner Richard Brooks shows how easy it is to go green when renovating.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
What is Dilbit?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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What exactly is in pipelines? (Dilbit plus)

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:04
Renewable Energy in a Nuclear Neighbourhood & Suing Environmentalists
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Ontario's reliance on nuclear energy means renewable energy is happening on a community level. Suing environmentalists Suing environmentalists to s...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:42
What is a FAD or Fish Aggregating Device?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Ocean campaigner Charlie Latimer tells us what a Fish Aggregating Device is and why using them to catch fish is ruining the oceans.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
AAST 240: How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: The Uncommon Core
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The Uncommon Core is a series that examines unusual college courses being taught in schools across the United States. In this episode, a professor ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
Jazz Toons (Popular Cartoon themes)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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This one hour music program contains covers and originals of some of the best known Jazz themes for cartoon show on television and in the movies. W...

Bought by KSRQ, WTIP, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 4
Centerstage Minnesota: An all jazz edition
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: The Bad Plus
This week is a broad look at jazz music published by Minnesota musicians. The show opens with The Bad Plus, and closes with a number from Happy App...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Centerstage Minnesota with Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Meat Raffle Road
This week hear music from The Gypsy Prophets, Sasha Mercedes, David Levin, Meat Raffle Road, The Marc Gartband, and more.

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
From Livestream To Mainstream
From: TurnStyle
Caption: Livestream CEO Max Haot during a TEDX Talk in November, 2011, Credit: Photo: TEDX/Screenshot
The Occupy Wall Street Movement has been using the Internet to help get its message across, specifically one website, LiveStream.com. Since the fir...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
England: What do bell ringers and astronauts have in common?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
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
Hedy Lamarr
From: Eric Molinsky
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A 1940s Hollywood star invents the technology behind cell phones.

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUT, WILL and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2008
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 6
From Moonshine to Armadillos: The Birth of the Austin Music Scene
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
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Rare archival recordings of Janis Joplin and Willie Nelson highlight this documentary.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 14, 2007
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1