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  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Poetry and Music, Credit: Donald Wendland
Poetry and music about moons, planets and gravity.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 56:48
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Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
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At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all others ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Naomi Benaron
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Suzette Jordan, Credit: Sandip Roy
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Susan Burton, A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project executive director and founder
After serving time, finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women bu...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
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Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
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A man whose wife died of breast cancer manages to find love again. But then he learns the woman who will be his second wife is diagnosed with breas...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Hear stories of human trafficking survivors in post-war Iraq.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
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And I think to myself, what a wonderful world! That voice! That smile! That golden trumpet! Jazz writer Gary Giddins on the incomparable Louis Arms...

Bought by Prairie Public and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 32:17
  • Purchases: 2
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
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Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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From "Warrior Writers" 8/20/2010: War News Radio reports on the Warrior Writers program, which helps US veterans channel their feelings and experie...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Joseph Canose discussed new research and support for paralysis

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: 26:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans, Credit: Brett Stirton
As we mark the 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, reporter Aaron Glantz takes us inside the war as it comes home to our communities. We f...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, KVSC, KVSC, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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A 15 year-old flutes his way through a life with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
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Chiang Mai is located in northern Thailand and is its second largest city, behind Bangkok. A largely poor city, there are many children in need of ...

  • Added: May 03, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
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Five women in the small town of Center, Colorado, talk about their decades of social and political activism.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZYX, and KRFC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 5
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Teaching and learning from pre-schoolers.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Nov 13, 2005
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Former HS geeks -- Muslim, ex-Jehovah, gay/straight and fabulous attend an "adult prom" for an NYC friend who's moving on...,

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 02:49