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Luis Buñuel's The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:31
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Interchange – Shooting the Gulf: Allan Sekula In the American Grain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
Michael Isikoff - Russian Roulette
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show is proud to present Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election o...

Bought by WPCA-LP and KRZA


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hell Yeah: Queer and Radical Performance Art
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Karen Finley performing "We Keep Our Victims Ready" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis., Credit: Walker Art Center
In the 1990s, queer performance artists like Karen Finley (pictured) created radical, experimental and often politically risky work. These artists ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
David Cay Johnston - It's Even Worse Than You Think - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of It...

Bought by WPCA-LP, KGNU Community Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
David Cay Johnston - It's Even Worse Than You Think - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of It...

Bought by WPCA-LP and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
U.S. Democrats and the European Left - Do They Connect?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Xenophobia, austerity, and an activated constituency -- there's a lot in common across international progressive fronts. Voices from the Progressiv...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Healthcare Isn't Big Business Or Big Philanthropy! Ben Palmquist & Dr. Steffie Woolhandler
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 30million Americans are uninsured, and even more are sickened by the sky-high costs. While Congress seems sunk in a partisan fight over the Af...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, “When They Call You A Terrorist”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Dissenting Adults: Two short plays by David Auburn and Leland Frankel
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Martha Plimption
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Psychedelic Medicine: The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Richard Miller, Psychedelic Medicine
A conversation with Dr. Richard Miller about the politics behind the suppression of psychedelic medicines. Plus a news segment about Net Neutrality.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, WETS, and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dr. Ava Siegler - How Do I Explain This to My Kids? - Parenting in the Age of Trump
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Dr. Ava Siegler, renowned child psychologist and author of How Do I Explain This to My Kids? - Parenting in the Age o...

Bought by KRZA and KMUD


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
T. Jefferson Parker discusses "The Room of White Fire"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of 20 crime novels, including Edgar Award-winners Silent Joe and California Girl. Parker's next work ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 09:39
José Martí: The Whole Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
Marceline Lasater - One Person, One Vote?
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Marceline Lasater, Attorney at Law, One person, One vote? A Texas attorney explains why, since 1911, our votes are no...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:31
How Bush and Cheney Ruined America and the World; and The Redemptive Future of Fig Trees
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: David Ray Griffin
Saving Humanity with Truth and Figs.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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