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The First 9-11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 56:42
Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The famous court battle over the right to teach evolution in public school comes to life.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 37
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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"The whole world is watching."

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tamara Payne on Les Payne’s THE DEAD ARE ARISING (Re-Broadcast)
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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For Black History Month, we air our conversation with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:42
Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589
This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 4: On The Death Penalty - The Unexpected Messenger
From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative
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Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 35:11
Episode 2: On Poverty - The Power of The Camera
From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative
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Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 37:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Rivalry
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates come alive, courtesy of David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KCRW, KUOW, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 31
Forms of Concentration: Constructing Racialized Bodies
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Speaking the Language of White America: Violence and the End of Slavery
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Real Dr. Strangelove
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The birth of Armageddon

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, WCPN, KKRN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 20
Confronting Nazi Art Looting in the 21st Century
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Phillips de Koninick, Portrait of a Boy, 1673, Eskenazi Museum of Art 2001.45.
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
WorldCanvass: Russian Revolution 100 Years On (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Guests on this WorldCanvass help us understand Russia’s historical trajectory, the cultural and social fallout from the revolution and its aftermat...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Russian Revolution 100 Years On (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Guests on this WorldCanvass help us understand Russia’s historical trajectory, the cultural and social fallout from the revolution and its aftermat...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 25:54
WorldCanvass: Russian Revolution 100 Years On (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass guests help us understand Russia's historical trajectory, the cultural and social fallout from the revolution and its aftermath, and i...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 1
Stand Your Ground: America's Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Caroline Light
Harvard Professor, Caroline Light, explores the racist "Stand Your Ground" history.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Unspun Looks at Black Politics in America with Kevin Alexander Gray
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Kevin Alexander Gray
Pamela Spoto, educator and Peace and Justice advocate, co-hosts again. Our guest is Kevin Alexander Gray. He is is a civil rights organizer and a...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: May 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 1
Trump and the Politics of Paranoia
From: MIchael Goldfarb
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Donald Trump and the tradition of using fear to win elections in America

Bought by KUER and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 29, 2016
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 2
Constitutional Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, author of “Allegiance”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
Truth About America No. 3 - David Talbot on Democracy Now!
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett
Since we couldn't get David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and author of Devil's Chessboard, I borrowed portions of Amy Goodman's interview with him ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
Rethinking Cuba Libre
From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts
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How two neighbors do and don't get along. A history of U.S.-Cuba relations.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
David Degraw Talks About the Psychology and Economics of Revolution on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: David DeGraw
We talk with David DeGraw, author, journalist and Occupy activist, credited with coining the rally cry, "We are the 99%." Two of his books, Econom...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Looks At The History of NATO and The Cuban Crisis with Retired Historian Michael Faulkner
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Mike Faulkner
We chat with retired educator and historian, Mike Faulkner, in London, about the real history of the first Cold War and Cold War II being created b...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:10