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Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:55
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Mainstream media’s neglect of rural America is a multifaceted issue with deep-rooted causes and significant consequences. First and foremost, the e...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 14:33
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The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 08:23
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The Syrian people are caught in the crossfire and have essentially lost their country. A decade of war has killed an estimated 600,000 people and d...

Bought by Classic107.3 and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: June 2019 Pride Month marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. In "Stonewall 50" WFUV News explores the events leading up to the night of June 28, 1969 and the past five decades of the LGBTQIA+ movement., Credit: Photos: AP Images, Creative Commons; Collage: Valeria Villarroel
The Gay Liberation Movement is widely recognized as having begun nearly fifty years ago in New York City. On June 28, 1969, patrons at a gay bar ca...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WHFR and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Torro, Credit: Tom Howell
In this, the second part of the Street Art Expo, Tom talks to up-and-coming and famous street artist in New York City, as well as Terry Michos TV a...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 35:01
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Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:28
Caption: Dr. Jacob J. Podber
Based on oral history interviews, this 29-minute radio documentary examines the effects early radio had on rural America. The program includes inte...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Millions of Americans have received letters from insurance companies in the last few months, cancelling their health plans. It’s part of the transi...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:58
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Drugs, sex and advertising...not necessarily in that order. In Ad Nomad, the Case Histories of Dane Bacchus, we enter the world of pharmaceutical a...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 22:07
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It’s no “secret” that millions of people believe in the law of attraction and that many are frustrated with their lack of satisfying and positive r...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 23:42
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Take a trip to the future in a very unique manner-environmental science fiction. Maureen Dudley grew up in Butte, Montana and it was there that she...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 18:53
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Alex Jansen and her father moved in with her grandmother and grandfather when she was five, her mother died the next year, followed by her grandfat...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 21:07
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Danny and I were good friends, check that, Danny was a good friend to me. We grew up neighbors and by virtue of being a neighbor, I associated with...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 22:24
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How much money does marijuana actually bring into Humboldt county, California?

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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3 Generations compare their perspectives on this very important day in history

Bought by WMUU-LP, 'The Sea', WXDU, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Older, middle and younger generations discuss being closeted

  • Added: Aug 29, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
Caption: Children's Aid Society hosts a summer camp for youth every summer called Play Street. The economic downturn has put social services like this in jeopardy.
A new survey by the Human Services Council and Baruch College found that nonprofits across NYC face a severe crisis, as public/private funding cont...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
on the day before their marriage his bride-to-be told him about all of her previous affairs.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: :28
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
when President Bush visited Iraq, an Iraqi man threw a shoe at him.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: :23
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A commentary on the content of unsolicited email

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: :21
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Another reason to go into teaching

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2008
  • Length: :39
  • Purchases: 1
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A woman told me that Obama would make friends with those who would destoy our country.

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
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Redefining the parameters of self defense

  • Added: Nov 20, 2008
  • Length: :40