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Roosevelt's Near-Assassination...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2015
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Which Roosevelt, you might ask? Find out as author Michael Wolraich reads from his bracing new book. Good cocktail hour fodder. Just a sample readi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
The Freedom Riders of 1961
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...

Bought by Hark! and WDSE


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Little Guy Aiming High, How does a Regular Joe Run for President? Ask John!
From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News
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John Davis builds houses. The Business owner located in the desert town of Grand Junction, Colorado is also passionate about his country. So what's...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Reversal of Gay fortune
From: KALW
Caption: Aditya and Michael, Credit: Gilles Delage
On December 8th the Indian Supreme Court reinstated Section 377 of the Penal Code making sex against the order of nature a crime again. But India s...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
Speaker Boehner's Rastafarian Daughter
From: David Feldman
Series: Five Guests, Thirty Minutes
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Not so shocking news about John Boehner's alcoholism from Down With Tyranny's Howie Klein who also tells us about Boehner's Rastafarian daughter.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
Whitey Bulger and Billy Bulger: The Tale of Two Brothers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Alcatraz Prison, where Whitey Bulger was incarcerated from 1959 to 1962., Credit: cliff1066/Flickr
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Las Historias Escondidas de Sunland Park
From: Kent Paterson
Caption: Sunland Park, New Mexico, Credit: Samat Jain
In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Gandhi and the Unspeakable
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mohandas Gandhi, Credit: Orbis Book cover Roberta Savage
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Writers on a New England Stage: Chris Matthews
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Virginia Prescott and Chris Matthews, Credit: David Murray
The TV personality and former journalist talks about his new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero."

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:30
Anne Kaner-Roth with Project 515
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we have a guest with a person who is excited to help MN move forward in relationship equality. We sit down with Anne Kaner-...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 15:30
Do You Hear The People Sing - entire song
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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At 1:00 p.m. on the 13th day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of singers and instrumentalists suddenly burst into song. The "Les Miserab...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
American Soldier Missing in Action
From: War News Radio
Caption: Ahmed Altaie, a reserve soldier from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was kidnapped while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
We hear about an American soldier missing in action.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 09:12
The Near Death of Reagan National Airport After 9/11
From: David Schultz
Caption: Reagan National Airport was almost permanently closed in the days after the 9/11 attacks., Credit: WikiCommons
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 06:07
A World Without Ice Caps
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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When the polar ice caps melt, sea level will rise. That’s happened earlier in the history of the world, and it appears it will happen again. In t...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:01
September 11 Santiago de Chile 1973
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chile experimented with social reforms and suffered its own 9/11

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 36:28
First Peoples of the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 2

Bought by KLCC and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio 6-25-08: Terry Aladjem - The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
From: Chris Goldstein
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Terry Aladjem of Harvard University discusses his new book that explores the psychology and philosophy of Vengence in America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dave Brubeck on Cultural Exchange
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Dave Brubeck on the importance of Cultural Exchange

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 19
Matthew Robinson PhD: Lies Damned Lies and Drug War Statistics- A Critical Look at Claims Made by the ONDCP
From: NORML Foundation
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Matthew Robinson PhD presents the information in his book Lies Damned Lies and Drug War Statistics- A Critical Look at Claims Made by the ONDCP

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:03:14
Training for Change
From: Hillary Frank
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Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.

Bought by PRX Remix, WSLR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4
Active Voice Radio 1-5-07: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Steve Hendricks dicusses his new book- The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Stuggle for the Soul of indian Country

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire
From: Seattle Globalist
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An exploration of American expatriates' decisions to move from the United States to Israel or Palestine

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WBEZ, WMNF, and CKMO


  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 4