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Season 1, Episode 24 - 'Burning History' feat Harley Dubois
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How a small gathering in the desert became part of the global zeitgeist.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 2
Helping Prisoners to Heal
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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More than a million Americans are in jails and prisons. In this documentary we present the voices of ex-prisoners who’ve made profound progress in ...

Bought by WUWM, KUHF, WAMU, WUOT 91.9 FM, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 16
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Close to home
From: Kyla Brettle
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Connecting the big things from the perspective of a small Australian town - an intimate look at what stops us from taking the climate crisis into o...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 47:59
But Next Time Part 2: From the Ashes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by WXDU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
03 "Celebrate Life In Reverse" [Alex’s Story]
From: Gautam Gulati
Series: SUPERHUMANS
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If you staged your own funeral, what would your friends and family say about you? This SUPERHUMANS story will tickle your soul by exploring what i...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 35:49
Stay for the Trees (episode 6)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Meet five native Seattle trees and plants through the eyes of humans that care for them: The Western Red Cedar, Dougfir, Madrone, White Pine, and F...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 36:58
  • Purchases: 2
You Cannot Clap With One Hand
From: Israel Story
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What was a nice Jewish grandmother doing flying into ISIS territory, preparing for a secret mission? After Lisa Miara's family suffered through ter...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 31:56
Repast (Gravy Ep. 46)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Justin Hopkins performing the role of Booker Wright in "Repast." , Credit: Photo by Brandall Atkinson.
One spring day in 1965, a waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi gave an interview for an NBC television documentary. What he said has made him an unlike...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 36:08
  • Purchases: 1
Live from the USS Bataan - at Sea
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Helicopter Landing, Credit: Richard A. Solomon
Arriving on a Super Stallion Helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Solomon meets the crew of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) and is granted behind the s...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Sound Ecology: Klamath Conifers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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A discussion of the unparalleled conifer biodiversity in the Klamath mountain region. Taking the long view through geologic time, this segment of ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Impact of Automated Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Writ Writer - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Scipio A. Jones, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Catch
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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"The Catch" in San Francisco in 1982 becomes one of the great plays in football history. To hear the show, click on the INTRO and 2 MIN links belo...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Miracle in Gray and White
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Neighbors investigate an apparition.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer: The Greatest Athlete You've Never Heard Of
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer: - She is an author, advocate, adventurer, motivational speaker, and athlete extraordinaire, Lynn Cox.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Raising Barns, Raising Voices
From: Eleanor Kagan
Caption: Kieran Riley, a local farmer, will have his own radio show on WGXC.
A community in upstate New York gathers together to build a radio station, by hand, in a weekend.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 35:34
See Jane Do: Mother's Day for Peace and Social Justice
From: Elisa Parker
Caption: CODEPINK Mother's Day for Peace Vigil, Credit: Jesse Locks, See Jane Do
The stories of everyday women doing extraordinary things for peace at the largest Mother's Day peace vigil in Washington D.C. Special guests includ...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 56:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Chieftains: San Patricio
From: Joyride Media
Caption: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder, Credit: Judith Burrows
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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American icon Nina Simone in words and music

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WFUV, WKMS, KNKX, KPSQ-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 54
A new vision for Africa
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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The making of Africa Open for Business

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
BIRTH
From: Thin Air Media
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A one-hour public radio documentary about the practices and perceptions of birth in America.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUAF Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WYAP, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 56:28
  • Purchases: 31
The Beauty of Madness: The Art of the Mentally Ill
From: WFUV
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Meet a community of people with mental illness who are redefining themselves through art

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mea, Me, Mine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Mea Tavares was born female. He’s spent the rest of his life redefining what it means to be male.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1