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COMPANY TOWN -- Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman, San Francisco, CA 10/21/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow talk definitions, tipping points, and the balance of power.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 21:23
Blues America 68 - Billy Boy Arnold
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Harmonica ace Billy Boy Arnold is a prolific recording artist who is one of a handful of musicians still standing to talk about the vibrant and imp...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
AMERICAN PASTORAL -- Ewan McGregor Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Ewan McGregor, San Francisco, CA 10/5/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ewan McGregor talks animal instincts, little losses, and unintended consequences.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 08:24
Blues America 67 - Sugar Ray Norcia
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Sugar Ray and the Bluetones are consistent as can be. This time, the East Coast-based blues band fronted by harmonica man extraordinaire/vocalist R...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUW, Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues America 66 - Kim Wilson
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Kim Wilson is the charismatic frontman for America’s quintessential contemporary blues band, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and author of the top 40 bar...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sunset Cube: Composer camps out in his own music box on Sunset Strip
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: Manuel Lima in The Cube, Credit: Anny Celsi
A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:03
Rural Pinetops Disconnected from Internet Thanks to Telecom Monopolies
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
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Last week, Wilson’s City Council voted to halt Greenlight Internet service to the community of Pinetops, North Carolina. City leaders, faced with t...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
Blues America 64 - Lil Ed Williams
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Lil Ed Williams is one of a kind. With his trademark Fez hat which symbolizes an African crown and his torturous slide guitar, Lil Ed Williams embo...

Bought by Public Radio East, KRPS, Spokane Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Blues America 62 - Eric Bibb
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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In 2014 he released a critically acclaimed album for the Stony Plain label titled ‘Blues People’ that earned awards and the top position on several...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Climate change threatens birds migrating along Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Andrea Patterson inspects a common yellowthroat in order to determine its age and sex during the banding process., Credit: Veronica Volk
Some of the migratory songbirds that pass through the Great Lakes region are already on the move, but their migratory patterns are shifting due to ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 6
Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Jake Harper, 29, is Side Effects Public Media's resident hypochondriac. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV., Credit: Brian Paul/Side Effects
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
Blues America 60 - Jerry Lawson Series
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
TALLULAH -- Sian Heder Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sian Heder, San Francisco, CA 7/27/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sian Heder talks baby whispering, the guilt of a pedicure, and being in director mode in the delivery room.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
THE WITNESS -- James Solomon Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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James Solomon talks fundamental questions, personal narratives, and the importance of listening.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:07
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC -- Matt Ross Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Matt Ross, San Francisco, CA 7/7/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matt Ross talks parental anxiety, speaking the truth, and being non-binary.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 18:19
Hawking Campaign Swag: How I spent my summer vacation
From: Leslie Griffy
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Selling campaign hats, t-shirts and buttons is big business. The guys behind the sales are having summer adventures - and their politics may surpri...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Capitalism in Crisis 14: Living Over The Store
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
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Wheeling and dealing like Donald Trump? MBAs, capitalism and society

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:50
Cornea-copia
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Adult stem cells (green) and corneal cells (blue) one month after applying to the eye., Credit: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 13:23
Yemeni family straddles border between Oakland and homeland
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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There’s been a lot of news about refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan and their attempts to enter Europe, but we hear far less about people t...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 09:08
Meet the Cardman of San Quentin State Prison
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - San Quentin Prison Report
Caption: L.U.C.K., Credit: BY FLICKR USER MOHAMMED ALNASER / USED UNDER CC LICENSE / RESIZED AND CROPPED
When we're children we believe in magic but as you get older skepticism takes over. But it's a different story for people who run into the Cardman ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
Walking SF streets with the Night Minister
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lyle Beckman, Night Minister with The San Francisco Night Ministry, Credit: Ian Lewis
Many people living in need rely on churches for meals, support or simply a place to get off the street and rest. But like other types of service ce...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:30
For undocumented immigrants, driver's licenses secure a sense of freedom
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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It’s been over a year since undocumented immigrants in California have been able to get driver’s licenses through the AB 60 law. The first week the...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Can Oakland hotels help catch sex traffickers?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In recent years it has become more and more common for arrangements to buy and sell sex to be made online and behind closed doors. A lot of the tim...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
Pumping up bodies and spirits at God's Gym
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Gary Shields Sr., training son Gary Shields Jr. at God's Gym, Credit: RENATA GRAY
At the corner of Broadway and 25th Street in Oakland, there’s black building with a name painted on it that might makes you do a double-take – God’...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:34
Gay and Syrian: One refugee’s journey to San Francisco
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Subhi Nahas with Fred Hertz, who hosted him for his first two months in California, Credit: ELI WIRTSCHAFTER
There are now more displaced people around the world than at any time since the end of World War II. In the Bay Area, some local groups are creatin...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 10:57
  • Purchases: 1

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