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Where They Built the Bomb
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet up — the high-desert plateau around Lo...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Druid Stories To Ward Off St. Patrick
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In tribute to the Druids who were canceled by Saint Patrick, we will tell some stories. Ghost stories. From those ancient Celtic lands that gave us...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kent State
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Wiles
On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen. The students were unarmed. The Guard w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than simply r...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: Hugh Turley Investigates His Death
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Hugh Turley
December 10th, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton. Questions linger. Was it a heart attack, accident, or murder?

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
9/11 Unmasked: A Conversation with Elizabeth Woodworth and Graeme MacQueen about the 9/11 Consensus Panel
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Graeme MacQueen and Elizabeth Woodworth
The 23-member 9/11 Consensus Panel is building a body of evidence-based research into the events of September 11, 2001.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
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
Danny Goldberg, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Danny Goldberg
Music executive, Danny Goldberg, discusses 1967 and the counterculture.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 3
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Cahan
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 22 - One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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A trio of sisters fly from Brooklyn to Oakland in the late 1960's to get to know their estranged mother. She sends them to a rather unusual summer ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 20:04
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Founding Fathers Fouled Up
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
WINGS #32-12 Remembrance and Action
From: WINGS Women's International News Gathering Service
Caption: Poster for the National Day of Remembrance and Action December 1, 2012 event, in Vancouver BC Canada, Credit: Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
23 years after the Montreal Massacre, feminists are still working like hell for accountability around violence against women.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:49
Untitled (August 28, 2012)
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This edition of Radio Curious is dedicated to Gerard "Tiger" Hill and those who died, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005. Our gue...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Strike
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 27
A Conversation with Tim O'Brien
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper trut...

Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 3
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Inauguration Day 2009
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1