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From the Ukrainian Pale to Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Radicalized by d...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:12
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If nothing else, the Russian Revolution reveals the uses of history for ideological purposes. For Russia’s Communism is the counterclaim to Capital...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 55:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Benjamin Lay painted by William Williams in 1790
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:10
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The Hantam Community Education Trust, Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa. Katherine King Documentarian joins us f...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Human hands unwittingly unleashed the AIDS epidemic and can now overcome it, if we learn the lessons of the past. This week on Interchange guest ho...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
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"City of Saviors" is Book 4 in Howzell Hall’s popular Lou Norton series. It pits this African-American LAPD homicide detective against a heat wave,...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Congressman Nixon & Robert Stripling examine Pumpkin Papers microfilm
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 27:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Lennard, who has been riding and fixing bikes for 50 years, is the author of 8 books, including “Zinn and the Art of…” titles about bicycle mainte...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:46
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Manal grew up in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. In her teens she was a religious radical, by her twenties she was a college-educated computer securit...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 09:57
Caption: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Unreal Bluegrass is joined by Jamie Deering of Deering Banjos to discuss the Deering position in the world of banjos.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:57:51
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Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:13
Caption: President Barack Obama talks with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter prior to the Let Freedom Ring ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D
With a focus on the metamorphosis of the Democratic Party from New Deal to New Democrats, Thomas Frank makes plain what once was a party dedicated ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Former Congressional Chief of Staff (JCT) Bob Shapiro & Dr. Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Former United States Congress Chief of Staff for The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Bob Shapiro shares Visions of a Fiscally Healthy Nation with...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 2
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With 1,200 pages and hundreds of color photographs, this classic sourcebook has had many praised spin-offs from calendars to tv shows. In this upda...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
Caption: Anne McKeig & Katie Carter, Credit: Anne McKeig
Area Voices tells the arts, culture and history stories of northern Minnesota. In this segment of Area Voices, we learn about a native northern Mi...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
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This novel intertwines the life of 18-year-old Victoria Jones, who is leaving the foster care system in contemporary California, with the medieval ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
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The author describes her life after she was fired from the job she thought she would have forever. With time on her hands, she discovered her envi...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:57
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes the journey of Liberia’s Sirleaf, honors the amazingly resilient Liberian women who put her into office, an...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:48

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
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Bill McKibben wrote the forward to this important book by Anthony Flaccavento, "Building A Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-Wolr...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Doc Ken host of Maximum Health Radio 88.9fm WQCS NPR brings you the future of Integrative Medicine Institutes - Thomas Jefferson University Hospita...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 27:14
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Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Today our guest, Thea Riofrancos, suggests populism is the not the problem, as so many in the “center” (left and right) fear, but the answer to the...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Dr Ken Grey AP, DOM Holistic Physician
Mindful Mediation is a growing area of wellness management making its way into the work place hospitals and as a viable approach to PTSD (post trau...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:03