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Nation of Nations (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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With immigration rising, the United States will soon no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profile. Plus: A Cuban's love for Mayberry. (And more...)

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Valiant Ambition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nathaniel Philbrick
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jane Mayer on the Hidden History of America’s Billionaires
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How are the superrich’s priorities transforming American society? Journalist Jane Mayer’s new book is Dark Money, the Hidden History of the Billion...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Gene: An Intimate History
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson on his career as journalist and historian.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. Also: A New York street photographer left behind more than 300...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
Nixon at the Movies
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Boston Globe journalist Mark Feeney, author of “Nixon at the Movies: A Book About Belief.” It examines...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Ideas Books: Alvin Roth - Who Gets What and Why
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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A conversation with Nobel Prize winner Alvin E Roth about his latest book. He reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activi...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 25:48
  • Purchases: 1
Joby Warrick, author of "Black Flags"
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick about his book, "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS"

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 30:06
What makes a boycott effective? Business professor/sociologist weighs in
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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In the wake of the Silver Bay City Council ban of Bent Paddle beer, we wondered...how effective are boycotts anyway? Brayden King is professor of ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 17:58
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO FATHER BRENDAN FORDE
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Father Brendan Forde is a Franciscan priest from Ireland who preaches peace and serves the most vulnerable people in Central and South America. Fat...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:10
Aaron Brown, author/creator of Minnesota Brown, on the current legislative session
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Author, radio producer, and college instructor Aaron Brown writes about life and politics on the Iron Range on his website, minnesotabrown.com. He ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 19:43
Steven Druker Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - Part 3
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents an unprecedented three part interview with Steven Druker author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to G...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Politician and the Poet
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 16:04
The Speed of Sound: Shearwater
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Jonathan Meiburg gets an interesting perspective of the United States as a world touring musician, not to mention that he just spent a large amount...

Bought by KUCB, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: The Land Bank
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today The Rough Draft Diaries meets Josh Murnen. He is the Vice President & General Counsel of the Lucas County Land Bank. Never heard of a land ba...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:06
Pathways for Peace (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Many displaced Iraqis returning to their homes are finding landmines and booby-traps left for them by ISIS fighters. One woman opened her refrigera...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 4
Jolie Justus (Serving As The First Openly Gay Senator In Missouri)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
Caption: https://www.flickr.com/photos/monewshorizon/5328913874/in/photostream/, Credit: Missouri News Horizon
Two years before Jolie Justus was elected the first openly gay state senator in Missouri, the General Assembly pushed an anti-gay marriage amendmen...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 17:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Spirit of '74: How the American Revolution Began
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ray Raphael
We’ve all read about “the Boston Tea Party,” as well as the famous “shot heard ‘round the world”. These two important events occurred 28-months apa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tent Cities: When Society Fails to House
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville--Seattle, Credit: Sara Bernard
Tent cities have popped up across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to New Mexico. Many are starting to build more permanent living structures....

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Harness the Sun
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Lou Freshwater - Radioactive waste in St. Louis??
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Investigative journalist Lou Freshwater writes: "In the middle of the United States there is a landfill contaminated by nuclear waste which was lef...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:43
Economic Heresy: Herman Daly #113
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Liz Maw and Net Impact: Creating Connections for Social Change
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Tune into our Innovate interview with Managing Editor Robert Rimm and Liz Maw, CEO of Net Impact. Liz discusses nonprofit strategy and the importan...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 34:18
Killing Maine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mike Bond
Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the state of Maine. According to a Gallup Poll last year, citizens rate their legislator...

Bought by KVSC, WRGY, and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3

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