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Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:22
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Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
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A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:36
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A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
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In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
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In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:33
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Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:05
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How do we know when it’s time to take a risk and push, or if it’s better to step back and negotiate?

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Roadhouse
In the next hour of The Roadhouse, we prove that the blues is everywhere. With music from Bob Margolin, Matt Andersen, Shemekia Copeland, Eric Joha...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode, Caroline Hickman, a co-author of the study and a climate psychology researcher at the University of Bath, joins co-host Ray Suarez...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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HOUR ONE: 'Is War Ever Worth It?' - On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, photographer James Nachtwey reflects on his life as a war photographer, a...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: 'Traveling By Book' - From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: 'Our Virtual Reality' - Not everyone has a big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place. But maybe all you need is a virtual spac...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
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In this episode, NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Jeffrey Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Admi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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The Father is a film about an elderly man suffering from dementia. It started in 2012 as a French play by Florian Zeller, and last year Zeller dire...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:17
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Riz Ahmed plays a rock drummer who loses his hearing and must come to terms with being a deaf person, in Darius Marder’s moving drama.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:11
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The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:48
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Catherine Deneuve plays a famous actress in conflict with her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film made outside ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
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In a Leningrad hospital, two women deal with the aftereffects of their experiences in World War II, in a powerful examination of trauma by a young ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:28
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Minari, the latest film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family’s struggle to make a new life in the Un...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:07