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In the last few weeks, we’ve talked about towns that are creating plans to prepare for rising waters. Today, we’re taking a look at an example of w...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WRFA-LP, and Raven Radio
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
Today, we’re talking about how cities and towns are preparing for rising waters. Right here in Rhode Island, the town of Warren is developing a pla...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WRFA-LP, and Raven Radio
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Dr Lisa Donovan, co-director of the Berkshire Regional Arts Integration Network, discusses the work being done with support from the Arts Endowme...
Bought by New England Public Media, KMUN, RADIOLEX, Spokane Public Radio, and KZUM
- Added: Jun 27, 2022
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 5
Driftnets are fishing nets that have largely fallen out of fashion because they can accidentally catch other marine life. But it's still legal to u...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 1
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Interview with feminist MD, KAREN KIM about her path into a medical career
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Since the late 1800s four women have run for the office of US president.
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Oil is one of the earth’s coveted substances. We love it and we hate it. Yet, it surrounds our lives every day.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
America’s prison population has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 40-years. The “land of the free” has the dubious distinction of handing dow...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
On an early October evening in 2003, Christina Crosby was on a 17-mile bike ride. Nothing unusual for this athletic professor at
Wesleyan Universi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From the origins of human culture to space exploration, the achievements of science have been extraordinary.
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Children of undocumented workers frequently don’t find out about their illegal status until they’ve graduated from high school. What happens to the...
Bought by KCBX and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
We live in an era of big problems, and we tend to spend our time thinking of big solutions. Thinking big, however, can have a paralyzing effect on ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Author Ai Jen Poo is Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. It’s no wonder considering her accomplishments.
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From Chair of the United Nations Development Group; Founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and World Resource Institute, law professor a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 1
