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Marching Onward

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis

Work in Progress

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

From “the most expensive pigeon roost in the world” to one of the world’s most unique libraries, Brooklyn’s Central Library has many stories to tel...

Bought by PRX Remix

Blocks and Brownstones

From: Brooklyn Public Library

In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX

Monacan Voices Promo #2

From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage

:30 Promo for the full length program

Guitar Legends: Joe Pass

From: Matthew Cochran
Series: Goes2Eleven

Goes2Eleven starts its run with a tribute to the jazz giant Joe Pass (1929-1994). We take a look at the guitarist’s early years in Johnstown, PA, h...

Great Performances of Songs from 1930 Broadway Shows

From: KCSM
Series: The Annals of Jazz

The Great American Songbook was largely derived from Broadway Shows produced at the turn of the Century. However, as the Great Depression began in ...

Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...

Norman Corwin, Writer-Director From Radio's Golden Age

From: Katy Sewall

Caption: Norman Corwin with Katy Sewall, Credit: Katy Sewall

Norman Corwin is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest writer–director–producer's of radio's Golden Age. Radio educator, Tony Palermo, says that ...

Bought by WABE, WAMU, KSUT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Prisoners of War, The Battle of the Bulge

From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont

This hour features four Vermont soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The program weaves together their stories of capture,...

Bought by WXDU and KREV-LP

Signing Off

From: Christopher Williams

UB40 went on to become one of the world's biggest reggae acts - but their debut album "Signing Off" still stands as one of their most influential r...

Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin

From: KUT

Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more

Divorced Kid

From: American Public Media

America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more