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Where It's At (Vol.21)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Bluegrass, jazz and related connective musical material that reflects just WHAT in carnation is going on out there in the wider world these days (!!)

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
NL 22-16: Jazz Goes to the Cold War, 4/11/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War & the civil-rights movement heated up, the U.S. State Department sent jazz musicians on goodwill tours around...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Time to 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 To Stay Alive
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 46:29
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Tutu
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy and Bishop Tutu in 2008 in San Francisco
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
NL 22-03: The Year In Jazz, 1963: A Man’s Dream, A Nation’s Nightmare, 1/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing unease and the youthful vitality...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Celluloid Politics
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri on the campaign trail with Narendra Modi in the 2014 Indian general election.
While at first film and cinema seemed the ideal way to promote peace between all of the different Indian religious factions, now the relationship s...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Best of Making Contact, 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Black Water: An American Opera
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The Chappaquiddick tragedy, re-imagined as opera

Bought by KKRN, Harford Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 9
70 Million: Where Juvenile Detention Looks More Like Hanging Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Paul Hancock, Hannah Wilkinson and Victor Chavez stand in front of basketball hoops outside of The Loft, St. Johns, Ariz., Credit: Photo Credit_ Amy Martin
There’s a place in rural St. Johns, Arizona, where teens who have encounters with officers of the law can play pool, make music, and get mentored i...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MAYOR PETE -- Jesse Moss Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Jesse Moss talks authenticity, homophobia, and healthy conversations about politics.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 15:32
In Putin’s Shadow
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at democracy movements fighting to survive in the shadow of a Russian government that’s determined to consolidate power.

Bought by KUOW, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
635: Decolonizing The Mind / 636: Listen To Your City, 11/6/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Risk Takers and Negotiators
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How do we know when it’s time to take a risk and push, or if it’s better to step back and negotiate?

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Chief Standing Bear Story
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Chief Standing Bear
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 46:34
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
FAUCI -- John Hoffman and Peter Staley Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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John Hoffman and Peter Staley talk science, politics, and telling the truth.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 27:55
Heather McGhee: The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together (Re-Air)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: A Special Court Keeping Native Americans out of Jail
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Courtroom chairs set up in a circle for the Healing to Wellness session that morning, Credit: Greta Rybus
Kirsten made her way out of jail and addiction with the help of a special court on the Penobscot Nation reservation in Maine. There, culture and ju...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Raga Role: On Carnatic Music and Caste
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: MS Subbulakshmi at the 1966 UN General Assembly
We explore the evolution of what we might call the modernism of the classical in South Indian music and the ways the production of this form of mus...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Sheikh Jarrah + NATO
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Mint 400
From: Black Mountain Radio
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In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:17
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:08

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