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Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour One
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rural Issues: Rural Entrepreneurship
From: WILL
Series:
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How small-town entrepreneurs are trying to establish themselves, and what presidential campaigns want to do to help them

Bought by KOSU, KRZA, KBIA, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2008
  • Length: 44:09
  • Purchases: 5
"Prison Town, USA"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In our special collaboration with public televison?s P.O.V., Directors Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins take us to ?Prison Town, USA? and explore how...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
End of Life Health Care Costs
From: KUOW
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The cancer drug Avastin can extend life, but only for a few months, at best. The drug can cost 100 thousand dollars a year. Is it worth it? Krak

  • Added: Jul 09, 2008
  • Length: 12:30
Africa Embraces Business Reforms
From: National Black Programming Consortium
Series: Africa Open For Business
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Higlights the hurdles that prospective African entreprenuers face.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 10:46
A new vision for Africa
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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The making of Africa Open for Business

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
The Bible and a Gallon of Bleach
From: Jen Nathan
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Religion and politics are two topics your mother told you never to talk about in public - unless you're a customer at Father Peter's laundromat in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
Spychips: RFID tags as human-tracking devices
From: Kellia Ramares
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Interview with Liz McIntyre

  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 15:00
Not My Job: Tales From the "Degreasing Room."
From: Chelsea Merz
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Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7
Information does not either want to be free.
From: Merle Kessler
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Sad fact, world: if you don't want to pay for it, soon nobody will make it.

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
GM is going green. What again?
From: Jonathan Ellis
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A comment on GM's recent, "green" press release

  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:15
Benefit Sharing Could Help Fund Conservation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The bacterium Thermus aqaticus, discovered in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, made some people rich...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
It is To Laugh - Business as Usual
From: NAISA
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"all commercials, all the time"

  • Added: Apr 15, 2007
  • Length: 22:02
Next Generation Radio @ SXSW
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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SXSW and "the underdog."

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ads Use Nature to Sell SUVs
From: The Environment Report
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Car commercials use nature to sell big SUVs.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2007
  • Length: 03:40
CL 2006 Peter Peterson "the quad deficits:why they matter and what to do about them."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Financial expert Pete Peterson talks about the looming crisis of baby boomer retirement and social security

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
If Money Grew on Trees: Venture Philanthropy
From: Tanya Ott
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Charitable giving is at an all-time high, but there's also increased scrutiny of how charities use donations. This story is particularly timely aro...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:53
Long Tail Schmong Tail
From: Merle Kessler
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A new book suggests that niche markets will take over. Ian's not buying it.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2006
  • Length: 02:37
Morally Bankrupt
From: Voices of Our World
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A new book titled ?The Color of Wealth? examines precisely how minorities, women, and immigrants have historically been the victims of the morally ...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Jun 16, 2006
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
Consistency
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Who are we if we live in multiple ethical worlds?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
The MySpace Phenomenon
From: KUT
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myspace gets obscure experimental band on the bill for coachella music festival

  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:24
Bonnie's Budget
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Bonnie has raised three daughters on less than twenty thousand dollars a year but according to Bonnie, she is anything but poor.

Bought by WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 3
Oakland's Port - Community Friend or Foe?
From: Hana Baba
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A long feature on where millions of Oakland Port revenues go and why the ailing City of Oakland doesn't receive a penny of it.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:04
Consuming Desire
From: Todd Melby
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Enter the world of passionate collectors and compulsive shoppers to find out why people spent money on objects they don't need.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WGBH Radio Boston, Marfa Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 6
Halliburton "Global"
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Halliburton and the Manchurian Candidate

  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 04:25