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Fountain of Passion
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dhruva Jain, the vintage fountain pen collector at the Pen Mahotsav festival., Credit: Sandip Roy
Fountain pens might seem part of a vanishing world but a group of pen enthusiasts seen signs of hope in India. Sandip visits a Fountain Pen festiva...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Four years after Vanessa Guillen's death, advocates are cautiously optimistic about military reforms
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Demonstrators gather in San Antonio in July 2020, shortly after Vanessa Guillen's body was found., Credit: Jolene Almendarez / American Homefront
The military has a new system to investigate sexual harassment complaints, after Guillen's family said her complaints weren't taken seriously.

Bought by KRPS, KPBS, WRFA-LP, and WHRV


  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 4
Salt Lick Sessions: Lucius
From: Salt Lick Incubator
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The Salt Lick Sessions is a weekly showcase of music and interviews with your favorite and soon-to-be-favorite artists. This episode features two t...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Salt Lick Sessions: Claire Ernst
From: Salt Lick Incubator
Series: Salt Lick Sessions
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From the Atlantic Coast to Nashville, Claire Ernst has been working tirelessly to share her creative perspective. Despite whatever ups and downs th...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Salt Lick Sessions: Gaby Moreno
From: Salt Lick Incubator
Series: Salt Lick Sessions
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The Salt Lick Sessions is a weekly showcase of music and interviews with your favorite and soon-to-be-favorite artists. This episode features four-...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Living the Word with Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, Part 3, Conclusion
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, but ultimately received the ca...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 27:20
801-Jacqui’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 5/31/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Elections 101: with just one week to go before EU Parliament elections, DW’s Jack Parrock tells you all you need to know Breaking the news: the in...

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Crypto Crime
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mitali Mukherjee’s “Crypto Crimes” book cover, Credit: Courtesy of Mitali Mukherjee
Some hailed it as a brave new financial revolution. But where there’s big money to be made, and made fast, there will also be people playing fast a...

  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Scrappy Ohio Pride Survives
From: Christopher Beale
Series: Stereotypes
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A pair of conservative small towns hosted their first LGBTQIA pride in 2023 to much success, then local residents tried to shut it down.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 06:30
The Bird Connection
From: Michigan Radio
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A documentary about the decline in bird populations in the Great Lakes region and how the causes also are a warning for humans.

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 1
Rita Dove: Rara Avis
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rita Dove, Credit: Photo of Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 24:10
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
A federal monument to Iraq and Afghanistan vets is years away, but states are erecting their own
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Army veteran David Vieira, President of the Afghanistan Iraq Veterans War Memorial Fund, attends a dedication ceremony for Connecticut's new monument to Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans. Viera's non-profit raised money to build the memorial in Danbury., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
While the national memorial goes through a lengthy planning and fundraising process, veterans are working with state and local governments to build...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, WHRV, KUT and more


  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 7
When troops' remains are identified from long-ago wars, it's getting harder to find family members
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Following a funeral ceremony in New Bern, N.C., Patriot Guard Riders member John Conner kneels to pay his respects to Barbara Weiss, the niece of Staff Sgt. Robert J. Ferris Jr. Ferris died in 1942 in World War II, before Weiss was born. She was the next , Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
Scientific advances have allowed the Army to identify about 200 sets of remains each year - dating back to World War II. But the passage of time ha...

Bought by KPBS, KUT, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 6
Why Women Don't Tell, Part 4: What the Media Leaves Out
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Exclusion by the Media of facts about the nature of the exploitation at the center of the Trump trial, and the $130,000 paid to an adult film actr...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 08:21
92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned
From: Tradeoffs
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As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 18:33
Year of the Netizen
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: election posters in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
There’s a new focus this election season in India, a new type of influencer, the ‘Netizen.’ But what does this really mean for the democratic process?

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 41 - 'Transformative Generation' feat Christabel Reed
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Taking care of ourselves goes hand in hand with taking care of the planet.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 1
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
How Memorial Day Really Began
From: Shelley Johnson
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Memorial Day began as a way to unite a country deeply divided by the Civil War. This documentary produced and narrated by Shelley M. Johnson talks ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 1
Karlya Shelton-Benjamin in THE SWANS OF HARLEM
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Host Diana Korte speaks with Ballerina Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, a Swan of Harlem herself who is one of the dancers featured in "The Swans of Harlem...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 09:11
The Army has stepped up its training for tunnel warfare, a dangerous - and growing - form of combat
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: An Army Special Forces soldier stands near the entrance of Fort Liberty's subterranean training facility. The elaborate Hamas tunnels in Gaza have brought new attention to underground combat, but the U.S. military began increasing its focus on tunnel warf, Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
Hamas' elaborate tunnels in Gaza have brought attention to underground warfare, but it's a tactic used by many other potential U.S. adversaries.

Bought by KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 9
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Up Close And Acoustic with JM Stevens
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: JM Stevens, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
JM Stevens is a singer/songwriter based out of Austin, Texas. He grew up in West Point, Mississippi fortunate enough to have a mother who was a sin...

  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:05

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