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Caption: Bappi Lahiri at an election rally , Credit: Sandip Roy
The Times of India newspaper called this Indian election a "Dance of Democracy." But for Sandip Roy it's more of a 'Disco' Dance of Democracy.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:29
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Another vote -- this time on raising the debt ceiling -- and other fissure exposed inside the GOP. Carl Hulse of the New York Times talks to Polit...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and WRKF


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Obama had some inspiring words for women in this year's State of the Union Speech. But we've heard good words before. Can he turn rhetor...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 35:31
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Caption: On board the Facebook bus, Credit: Kristina Loring
Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
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How to Protect a National Pastime

  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
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Mitch Skinner looks at the use of bikes as a symbol for freedom and for protest.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
Caption: Richard Nixon, Sonny West, Jerry Schilling and Elvis Presley, Credit: Photo courtesy of Jerry Schilling
The story of Elvis Presley's visit to the Nixon White House in 1970, told by a man who was there, Elvis' confidante Jerry Schilling.

Bought by PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:17
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San Francisco has long been known as a city where you can let it all hang out. Nudists from all over the world flock here to participate in events ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
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By Amy Friedman. The Cold War standoff between the Soviet Union and the U.S. was a war of ideologies. To counter the conforming proletariat of stat...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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A profile on Ryan Bowers, a winner of Yale University's Last Comic Standing, and an opener for John Mulaney at the Yale Fall Show.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:20
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By Jamie Nelson. The 2008 Presidential Election saw a record turnout of young people. Has that poll momentum faded after four years, or will ballot...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Culture Queue, it's all about the elections. Our show begins with Jamie Nelson looking at the expected turnout of young voters in the ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:16
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As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 22:59
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This week on Culture Queue, we deal with losses of all kinds. We start with a ballot issue, a topic that inherently involves both winning and losin...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 30:58
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Pre-October surprises test the mettle of the presidential candidates, the press and US foreign policy. Mitt Romney struggles with reaction to hi...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 57:16
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The Brave New Workshop has helped launch the careers of humorists such as Al Franken and Tom Davis, the first head writers for Saturday Night Live...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at how "going to extremes" is replacing "all things in moderation" as the national motto in politics and more...told thru narration, music ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 57:39
Caption: May Day General Strike 2012, Credit: Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt
In celebration of May Day, The Artsy Fartsy Show covered art in immigrant communities, activism and the artistic influences within the Occupy Wall ...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 52:11
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Black Paint, Cool Cars and Root Canals

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 06:31
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Delivered in the Capitol of the Invaded Country

  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:25
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A Thanksgiving Prayer Regarding the Fall of Ronald Reagan

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:14