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Audio-guide to the revolution: join us for a journey through time and space as we visit the streets of revolutionary Lisbon. Then… The EU’s Green...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Garrick Palmer. 'Benito Cereno,' Pencil signed proof; 1970.
Today, Interchange shared segments from three episodes that aired throughout the year – they all three touched on aspects of our current moment wit...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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In these times of increased awareness of environmental protection, the bicycle is on the rise again. In Germany, especially medium-sized cities suc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 19:19
  • Purchases: 2
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June 2019 marks ten years since then President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup. In this program, Dr. Dana Frank, author ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
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Chris Turner discusses his book ,The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure its use, how it is valued, and how (...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:22
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A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 23:17
Caption: A Boeing F-15 Strike Eagle , Credit: U.S. Air Force photo
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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The growth in national security measures since 9/11 is striking. Is this level of government investment worthwhile? Can there ever be too much secu...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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How do you choose missions to fight a war effectively, while minimizing civilian deaths and meeting the obligation to your soldiers?

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Must governments meet violence with an authoritarian response? In the recent Mexican election, citizens could demand a crackdown on druglords at th...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Does the state capitalism model present a challenge to free market political systems? Is Google's confrontation with China a taste of the future? W...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Can you hold to ethical standards and serve a government that makes mistakes? Does becoming a diplomat mean, "my country right or wrong"?

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Inequality in America has been accelerating rapidly since the 1980s. But capping income levels could put liberty and competitiveness at risk. Regar...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, Interlochen Public Radio, WRPI, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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What is true for the individual may not be true for the group, the state, or the international system, and vice versa. Does this suggest that ethic...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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How can we resolve the financial melt-down and prevent another? Solutions focus on free markets, regulation, or rewards. Perhaps we should balance ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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What criteria do you emphasize when deciding "How is my country doing?" Are you proud of how your country compares with the world?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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What does the financial crisis imply? Should we liberalize trade on agriculture and services? Or should we protect domestic producers?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Will our responses to the financial crisis be constructive, or will panic cloud our judgments?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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Will people associate U.S. power with "global misery" or with the opportunity and pluralism that Obama's victory represents?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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We enter a slippery ethical slope when we begin to make distinctions between victims. When can an individual's rights be set aside?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Dancers at the march for the disappeared, Credit: Beatrice Murch
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 09:39
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Shimon Peres at Cornell 11/28/2006

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 58:57