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Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: April Matthis
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:56
A People's Journey
From: UnderCurrents
Series: UnderCurrents Specials
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We visit the National Museum of African American History & Culture, the newest Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Co-Hosts Gregg & Gabriela interview...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:58
Utah Jail Deaths
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Inmates in Utah jails die at a higher rate than any other state in the country. And the secrecy surrounding the issue is just as disturbing as the...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 15:20
CJL-301 Ben Lewis Trio
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we have a truly miraculous story of resilience and recovery. In November of 2016, the brilliant pianist and composer...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 72: Bears, Birds, and Bones
From: Criminal
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As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of the dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds Natio...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
The uncertain future of segregated workshops
From: WXXI Rochester
Series: Exited
Caption: While Carrie D'Olivo says there's no particular task that she especially enjoys in her job at ArcWorks, she says she wants "to stay here as long as I can.", Credit: MALINDA RUIT/WXXI NEWS
For lots of people, leaving high school means looking for a job. But for some people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, finding a job...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Ayden
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs: 885 Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge and Aoife O'Donovan
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Chris, Aoife and Julian together on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes guitar masters Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge plus acclaimed songwriter Aoi...

Bought by WVTF, KDLG, Radio Bristol, WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
17-21 Platero & I, Rossini, Albeniz, Palumbo
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Don Doyle, poet, Credit: Don Doyle
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Platero y Yo” for guitar and narrator (based on text by Nobel Prize ...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , KTXK, WICR, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 40
Blinking
From: La Cosa Preziosa
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Sometimes it takes leaving home to see it whole. Short form audio fiction, finalist in The Sarahs Very Very Short Short Stories contest 2016.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:20
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Woman's March-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Mother & Daughter -Women's March NYC
Mixing the voices of millions of marchers around the country and the globe with music from the protest movement and the history of freedom fighters...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Tribute Mix- 2016 (Part Three)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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The tributes continue on this third hour of Shortcuts, celebrating more of the lives lost to 2016, including Princess Leia, George Michael and others

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Tribute Mix- 2016 (Part Two)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Scotty Moore with Elivis
This special mix features another gathering of the many artists, actors, musicians, comedians and celebrities who left us in 2016--from Muhammad Al...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 865: Ted Yoder and Frank Vignola & Vinny Raviolio
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Ted Yoder on the hammered dulcimer.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes National Hammered Dulcimer Champion Ted Yoder plus guitar masters Frank V...

Bought by KRZA, WOUB, WPCA-LP, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Snap 625: Rose Colored Glasses, 11/24/2016
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Some people go through life with a smile on their faces...do they know something we don't? On the next all-NEW Snap, "Rose Colored Glasses."

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tale of The Sad Election
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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Join us for a sad journey to the end of the world with Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Benedict Cumberbatch and many ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:53
Black Lives Matter protest shapes Ohio ballot
From: George Drake, Jr.
Caption: Black Lives Matter protesters take over city hall in Columbus, OH., Credit: George Drake, Jr.
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
All Mixed Up-The First Debate
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mixing it up during the first presidential debate, with plenty of music providing passion and emotional manipulati...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:01
Live from the Divide - Kevin and Dustin Welch
From: Live From The Divide
Series: Live From the Divide
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Father & son...Kevin and Dustin Welch share the stage on Live from the Divide.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Blue: 50 Years After the UT Tower Shooting
From: KUT
Caption: UT Tower, Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr. /KUT News
It’s been 50 years since the University of Texas Tower shooting – long considered the first modern mass shooting of its kind. On Aug. 1, 1966, a sn...

Bought by WVTF, KUER, Prairie Public, WBEZ, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:49
  • Purchases: 13

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