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Interchange – Unfounded America: Taking Out the Myth with the Trash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Family at table eating," Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia., Credit: Margaret Bourke-White, You Have Seen Their Faces
For “Unfounded America” we’re joined by Nancy Isenberg of the popular and provocative new book, White Trash: The 400-year Untold Story of Class in ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Maria Alyokhina on Political Art
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Maria Alyokhina, Credit: Belarus Free Theater
Maria Alyokhina talks about political art, Pussy Riot, Hannah Arendt, and working with Belarus Free Theatre.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
Lynchings on Loop: How Terror Goes Viral
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anti-lynching banner flew outside NAACP headquarters in midtown Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938. , Credit: (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/COURTESY OF THE NAACP)
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
The Graphically Radical Paul Buhle
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
The Radical Democracy of Henry David Thoreau: A Conversation with Branka Arsic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time: Wendell Potter on Big Money
From: WFHB
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How can you, the citizen, with your “one vote,” compete against a system where all the pulleys and levers are greased by graft? Wendell Potter ackn...

  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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
Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR
From: WNJR
Series: acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR studios
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Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:13
The Speed of Sound: Sarah McLachlan
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Sarah McLachlan has been a source for many, some that you wouldn’t expect like DMC from Run DMC, who’s on record saying that her song Angel saved h...

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KSUT


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
Civil rights lawyer & ordained minister Barry W Lynn, author of “God and Government”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the author describes political issues of the day, the new influence of ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
Are we winning the war on drugs? Don Winslow, author of “The Cartel”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Don’s 19th thriller may be fiction, but it’s the truth about our longest war, the war on drugs, especially in all the ways it effects Mexico. To le...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1
Senator George Mitchell: Peace in the Middle East?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This American statesman's newest book is "The Negotiator." He knows a thing or two about heated negotiations from his role as Senate majority leade...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Born to Run: Is Nearly Barefoot Best?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
In Deep with Angie Coiro: The NYPD Tapes
From: Gordon Whiting
Caption: Broadcasting from Menlo Park, California
Adrian Schoolcraft blew the whistle on the NYPD. For his trouble they had him suspended and put into a mental ward. The NYPD Tapes author Graham Ra...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
Ilan Stavans, The United States of Mestizo
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth
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Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 23:33
Fresh Talk: Andrea Bowers
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Andrea Bowers, Credit: Courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Projects
This episode features Los Angeles-based artist activist Andrea Bowers, whose vivid work is featured in two North American biennials this year.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:58
WWI: The Shock of the New
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Out of the mire and death of World War One, even before the shooting stops, comes the strangest thing: the novel of the century.

Bought by WABE and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 2
Measured by Mistakes: The Reality and Representation of Policing
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:53
Author Charles Mann and Life in the New World
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

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


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Colombian President Santos on Rebel Negotiations and the War on Drugs
From: Matthew Cadwallader
Series: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
Caption: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
An interview with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on negotiations with rebel militias and the war on drugs.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor
From: Matthew Cadwallader
Series: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
Caption: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
Was Edward Snowden justified in leaking classified materials? HKS Lecturer Chris Robichaud explores the moral dilemma.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:46
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 16 - Writer Sarah Schulman Interview
From: Andy Moore
Series: Andy's Treasure Trove
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Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 35:31
What the Prez Reads Every Day: Author Eli Saslow
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1