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Cell Phones and Brain Cancer with Ellen Marks
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet & MacArthur Genius Claudia Rankine
From: New Letters on the Air
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In light of the recent events regarding race in America, we revisit MacArthur Genius and Guggenheim Fellow, Claudia Rankine, who discusses her mo...

Bought by WJSU and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Final Symphonies
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla, conductor and soprano, Credit: Andreas Hechenberger
Last symphonies by Schubert and Weinberg.

Bought by KMUN, KDX Worldround Radio, WCNY, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
Steven Cole Hughes and Heather Hughes — The heart of theater
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with theatre storytellers, Heather Hughes and Steven Cole Hughes.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Full Moon Hacksaw #1656 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/25/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Our activities are balanced this episode, all the ingredients are blended: Jazz, blues, new releases, classics, ballads, salsa, vocalists and big b...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP, WVBI-LP, WKAR and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 8
All Families Belong Together: Immigration & Incarceration
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Families torn apart at the border and through our prison system. Can we use this moment of public awareness to create change? Emani Davis, a long-s...

Bought by KDNK and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Nakba: Seventy Years of Oppression, 1948-2018
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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The Ongoing Nakba: Interviews with Waddah Sofan, Gilad Atzmon, and Richard Toll

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 13, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Power 20 Countdown!
From: Garry Boast
Series: Power 20 Countdown!
Caption: Power 20 Countdown, Credit: Cerebral Radio CBRTalk
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day

  • Added: Apr 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:12
Max Richter
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Max Richter, Credit: instagram.com/maxrichtermusic/
We’ll hear from a composer who wrote a work with the express intention for the audience to sleep! Ahead Max Richter’s Sleep, plus more of his music...

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KWAX, WETS and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Holocaust Remembrance and the Responsibility of Bystanders
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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To create thought around Yom Hashoah, known in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, Radio Curious revisits an archive interview with Ralph Appelba...

Bought by KWIT and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Corvallis-OSU American and Soviet Masters #18-10
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra play Barber's Violin Concerto and Prokofiev's 3rd Symphony

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
PN 16-11 “Perspective” by Amy King
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Amy King, poet
Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.

Bought by KVNO, KALW, KHSU, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
PN 17-17 “Psalm for Mary Jane Veloso" by Barbara Jane Reyes
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Barbara Jane Reyes, poet, Credit: Oscar Bermeo
Barbara Jane Reyes remembers and praises the life of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker who was swindled into becoming a drug mule.

Bought by KENW and KALW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
PN 17-09 "Goodwill, Buffalo NY" by Kimberly Lyons
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Kimberley Lyons, poet
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
PN 16-25 “Tin Woman's Lament" by Yolanda Wisher
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Yolanda Wisher, poet, Credit: Ryan Collerd
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.

Bought by KHSU, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
PN 16-22 "Umpaowastewin" by Margaret Ann Noodin
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Margaret Noodin, poet, Credit: Troye Fox
Margaret Noodin sings a poem in Anishinaabemowin and discusses Native American languages and heritage.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHNS, KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 5
PN 16-19 “Saguaros” by Jose Javier Zamora
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Jose Javier Zamora, poet , Credit: Ana Ruth Zamora
Javier Zamora describes his journey as a young migrant crossing the desert into the U.S.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
PN 16-18 "Breadwinning for Birds" by Alli Warren
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Alli Warren, poet, Credit: Andrew Kenower
Alli Warren mingles tropes of baseball, horticulture, and birdwatching as she celebrates her life.

Bought by KSKA, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
PN 16-17 “Rosary (Prayer One)” by J. Michael Martinez
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: J. Michael Martinez, poet
J. Michael Martinez writes of love and the body through the language of the natural world.

Bought by KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Je Suis Dhaka?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The Je Suis slogan, once a stirring call for a moment of coming together in protest and solidarity, is well-meaning but has a long lost its meaning.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
#23 MIW Christian Calinsky - Body Piercer and Homeless Youth Advocate
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Christian Calinsky on MIWq, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host, this episode of Making it Work, Christian will share his journey from being a homeless youth to becoming a ca...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
MS 15-03: Folk Music with a Sense of Humor, 1/15/2015
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: The Midnight Special
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:58:30