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Constant Wonder - Tomatoes That Leave Earth Behind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Hydroponically grown foods may feed a space colony one day.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Downton Shabby
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Would you really want to inherit a castle?

Bought by KUHF, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Scheming in the commandant's dress shop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - It's Complicated: Our Fraught Relationships with Animals
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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We can work ourselves into a quandary, sometimes hilariously so, when we try to rationalize our relationships with animals.

  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
Constant Wonder - Animal Duets
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Do birds and other animals actually make and enjoy music?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Lost at Sea
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jonathan Franklin shares the story of how Salvador Alvarenga survived for more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Joan Druett shares the para...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Mockingbirds
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Mockingbirds learn hundreds of songs and manipulate them with stunning sophistication. Why?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the statio...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:50
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lives in Music: Gavin Monaghan
From: Robin Valk
Series: Lives in Music
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In a down at heel part of the West Midlands in the UK, a producer with an extraordinary track record continues to make magic. The wizard in his Mag...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
437: African Cities Of The Future / 438: Mad As Hell, 12/14/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "African Cities Of The Future" - The fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. We'll take you there with a special TTBOOK from A...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:57
Sonia Purnell, author of "A Woman Of No Importance"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Twin Cities Jazz Workshop Trains Middle and High School Musicians in Jazz Performance
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Charlie Lincoln, Credit: Andrea Canter
Jazz pros Doug Little and Charlie Lincoln lead a group of high school jazz musicians known as the Twin Cities Jazz Workshop. The group learns music...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #49: US-American Soccer and the World
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Since the US Men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, many American soccer players have been looking to sign onto inter...

Bought by WNYO


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 95: The Job
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson was asked to write the manual on lethal injection for the state of Oregon. Capital p...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
StoryCorps: Duane Topping and Jamie Topping
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Duane Topping served three tours in Iraq. Coming home, he suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but found comfort from an unexpected place.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
Imara Jones: Transgender Narratives Are Expansive
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Despite efforts over the last two years to curtail progress for trans people by the current administration, trans activism has gained momentum and ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of Ifrah Mansour's "How to Have Fun in a Civil War," a Midnimo Project Performance at St. Cloud State University
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Sometimes a performance needs a gripping title in order to convey not only content, but also the subtlety of emotional weight found within, and Ifr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 27:28
Episode 70: The Procedure
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
  • Purchases: 1
Learn About Shower Beer!
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Learn About Shower Beer and listen to the second part of our Interview with Captain Jerry, who skippers a Wine Party Cruise Boat.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Remembering George Kennedy
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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In an interview from our archives, host Bob Kustra talks with the Oscasr-winning actor about his memoir. Kennedy died Feb. 28, 2016.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
StoryCorps: Max Voelz and Mary Dague
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Retired Army Sgt 1st Class Max Voelz first recorded in 2011 to remember his wife...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Storm Reyes and Jeremy Hagquist
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Storm Reyes tells her son, Jeremy Hagquist, about growing up in migrant farm worker camps during the early 1960s.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, WTJU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Alton Yates and Toni Yates
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 5
Treating Diabetes
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Diabetes has been known to doctors for thousands of years. How was it treated before the discovery of insulin? What new ways are being developed to...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00