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Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 8
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Mystical Nativity', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program explores through the spoken word the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. Part of the 76 part series here on Public Radio Exchange, th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
Sketches of Spain
From: Drew Darling
Series: Adagio
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Miles Davis and Gil Evans third collaboration traced to Joaquin Rodrigo's El Concierto de Aranjuez, and on from there.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:00
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Unknown
From: Lily Sloane
Series: A Therapist Walks Into a Bar
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One of the biggest threats we find ourselves defending against as conscious beings is the unknown in its many forms. So in this episode we’re gonna...

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 2
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 901 - Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
From: Savannah Music Festival LIVE
Series: Savannah Music Festival LIVE - Season Nine
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Highlights from a 2016 lunchtime concert at the Charles H. Morris Center, the day after Hayes and Cahill performed at the Lucas Theatre for the Art...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Darkness
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Darkness, Credit: Julia Meek
It's a musical world of darkness we're exploring on this edition of Folktales--and you won't need a headlamp to find us!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 7
An Airplane for Everyone
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:22
Drowned
From: Sean Callahan
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Inspired by an Old Spice commercial as a kid, Kieran Burke always wanted to be a surfer. But learning proved difficult with no one to teach him.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
Body of Water
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: http://bodyofwater.ca/, Credit: Rebecca Roher
An ode to urban lake swimming

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Voyager Found
From: The Truth
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What if aliens found the Voyager golden record?

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WJCT, KFAI Minneapolis, KMUZ and more


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 13:04
  • Purchases: 6
On speaking vs writing
From: Veronica Simmonds
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What is the nature of speech? Why did we start writing stuff down? And which of these lasts longer?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 2
99% Invisible #71- In and Out of LOVE (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Follow a breadcrumb trail of black wax and wheel marks to a secret war over public space.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, KSKA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 22
99% Invisible #15- Sounds of the Artificial World (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Without their beeps and chimes, all of your modern conveniences would be very hard to use

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 5
99% Invisible #14- Periodic Table (Directors Cut)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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The Periodic Table knew what our universe was made out of even before we did.

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
99% Invisible #57- What Gave You That Idea (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What Charles Dickens has to do with those insurance commercials on TV.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #55- The Best Beer in the World (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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They made it perfect--but not for you.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #54- The Colour of Money (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Australia made its money better. Why can't the US?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 18
99% Invisible #53- The Xanadu Effect (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Can a building be too big to fail?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #30- The Blue Yarn
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Better (and less expensive) cancer treatment started with a sensei and ball of blue yarn...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 11
99% Invisible #39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Not the kind of place that makes your divorce or custody battle any easier.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #37- The Steering Wheel (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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I bet you think could pantomime changing lanes with an imaginary steering wheel. But you'd be very, very wrong. You’d probably kill a bunch of imag...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #36- Super Bon Bonn (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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What happens to a city when its purpose is stripped away virtually overnight?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 12
99% Invisible #35- Elegy for WTC (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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A building’s worth is an infinitesimal fraction of the worth a person’s life. But a building is still a living thing in a way.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, WABE and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 10