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Let's Unmake Something: On the Unconstructable Earth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Three Little Words - End Fossil Fuels
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is Three Little Words and our guest is Holly Buck, author of Ending Fossil Fuels - Why Net Zero Is Not Enough just out from Verso. We’re ...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Subjects of Captivity: Personhood Rights and Nonhuman Animals
From: WFHB
Caption: Th mirror self-recognition test.
Our show is about the legal status of nonhuman animals - are they subjects or objects, persons or things? And currently those are the only options ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
On Being Against “Freedom”: Recognizing Social Needs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Social rights might be called rights that constrain what we like to call freedom. Kimberley Brownlee makes these claims primarily against freedom o...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
On Pandemics and Panopticons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We look at the local effects of COVID-19 in Italy with IU prof Andrea Ciccarelli and then turn to the socio-political impacts of becoming a digital...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers
From: Melanie Harth
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Living From Happiness - deep, thoughtful, provocative public radio

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
Why Librarians (and Others Who Fight for Free Speech) Will Save Us
From: John Shuck
Series: Beloved Community
Caption: (Top Clockwise) Nicole Correri, Brett Webb-Mitchell, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel
The rising threat to free speech, Muslim-Christian dialogue, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 soccer World Cup many are questioning the economic, environmental, and social cost of this sporting mega-event....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bestselling author and investigative journalist on the Greek economic crisis
From: Michael Nevradakis
Series: Dialogos Interview Series
Caption: The Dialogos Interview Series, produced by Dialogos Radio, Credit: Michael Nevradakis
An interview with investigative journalist, bestselling author, and economist Greg Palast, on the economic crisis in Greece.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2013
  • Length: 25:22
Lynne Stewart, Libya & African Union, LGBT Community and Stop & Frisk
From: Liberation Radio
Series: Liberation Radio
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Program for the week of April 21, 2013

  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Drones in Higher Ed, Chicago School Fight, Morning After Pill Victory
From: Liberation Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Program for the week of April 7, 2013

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Broken, Not Broke: The Economy According to Richard Wolff
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Richard Wolff, Credit: http://www.rdwolff.com/
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Oliver Stone Discusses new movie "South of the Border"
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
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Oliver Stone and members of his research team for the movie discuss their latest work that focuses on several South American and central American C...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 53:57
James Lawson: Non-Violent Warrior
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Arrested in Nashville, 1960 , Credit: www.blackpast.com
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Alan Dershowitz on the doctrine of preemption, the Hezbollah and the 'war on terror' -- on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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The controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks about the doctrine of preemption, the Israeli-Hezbollah ...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WNED Buffalo, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 57:20
  • Purchases: 4
ThoughtCast talks with Samuel Huntington -- on Hispanic influence on America, the 'clash of civilizations' and more....
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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The provocative political scientist Samuel Huntington discusses Hispanic influence on America, the 'clash of civilizations' from the post 9/11 pers...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 2