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Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
On the centennial of the first US commercial broadcast, this is a rebroadcast of an interview with its announcer, recorded 65 years later, in 1985,...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 07:44
Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 45:27
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies.
The partition ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 21, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A special interview with Author Collin Woodard discussing his book, American Nations: A History of the 11 Regional Rival Cultures.
- Added: Apr 02, 2017
- Length: 51:26
Apex Clean Energy plans to build dozens of wind turbines across the Great Lakes states -- including Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois – to take ...
Bought by WCPN, Delta College Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO
- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Women are only mentioned in the Constitution once: in the Nineteenth Amendment which grants women the right to vote. In 1923, suffragists proposed ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 2
This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s visit to Buffalo New York -- a day that helped clean up waterways across the...
Bought by WABE, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WBFO, and WXXI Rochester
- Added: Aug 19, 2016
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 5
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:18
A century after Armenians fled genocide in 1915, language teacher Hratch Sepetjian is fighting to keep their dialect – Western Armenian – alive in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:09
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
In his backyard in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood, Arne Jin An Wong coats a pink and white striped, eight-foot-long surfboard. This bo...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
A brief history of San Francisco's $6.4 billion bridge
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 11:12
It’s been 20 years since four white police officers were cleared of unlawfully beating Rodney King in Los Angeles. But we might never have heard of...
Bought by WCSU-FM and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Oct 20, 2008
- Length: 04:47
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A radio documentary on Burj el-Shemali refugee camp, located on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre and home to upwards of 20 000 P...
- Added: Dec 27, 2006
- Length: 29:03
- Added: Sep 02, 2006
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 2
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
Max Skidmore takes a look at what America's former Presidents have done in their post presidential years. The show features our regular segments.
Bought by WILL
- Added: Feb 04, 2006
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 16, 2005
- Length: 03:30
