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Hispanic Heritage Month: the United Farm Workers & a Surprise!
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so let's recognize their leaders, and raise a glass to the founder of the United Farm Workers. If you’re thinking Ces...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
Bold Women of Montana - 0328 - Harriet Eliza Cushman
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0324 - Jessie Wilbur
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0323 - Frances Senska
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0331 - Chani Nava
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0330 - Indigenous Language Revival
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0308 - Emma Riley Smith
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Black History Month -- Remember the Ladies
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It's Black History Month, and that means the gals along with the guys. Visit two women you probably never heard of who were "firsts" in their field...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:47
Happy 5783!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global Rosh Hashanah playlist inspired by the holiday liturgy and our sincere hopes for a good a sweet year.

Bought by WVTF and WLPR


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...

Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 18
StoryCorps: Phillip Lazowski and Ruth Lazowski
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Music, Spirit & Protest: The Hippie Idea, Woodstock & Climbing PoeTree
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can music make a movement? This week, legendary music producer Danny Goldberg will reflect on 50 years since Woodstock and go in “Search of the Los...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Husayn Means Beauty: The Attraction of the Seventh Century Martyr (2 of 2)
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine. Part 2 of 2.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 70: The Procedure
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
  • Purchases: 1
329-Near Neighbor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are able to find small space rocks before they make a close approach to planet Earth.

Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 50: This Is Criminal
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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To celebrate Criminal’s 50th episode, we check in with some of our most memorable guests including Fran Schindler from Episode 17: “Final Exit,” Da...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 36:34
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Giago_Media Black Out
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
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Tim Giago talks about his news papers efforts to inspire other media outlets to cover the DAPL issue

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:42
History Repeats ... Everyday. Bubbles, Bombs, and a Woman President
From: Teosson Wells
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The first woman "U.S. President" happened 100 years ago.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 27:40
The Voice of the Casals Cello
From: David Schulman
Caption: Amit Peled + the Casals cello.
Time machine? Try this cello: The stories swirling around Pablo Casals's instrument — now almost 300 years old — are full of time-warp coincidence,...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WFSU, KENW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Monacan Voices Promo #3
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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:20 Promo for Monacan Voices

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: :20
Episode 12 - Orleans
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Dainicia, Naomi, and Nya are 7th graders at Benjamin D. Foulois Creative and Performing Arts Academy in Maryland.
Imagine Katrina was just the first of a series of ever-more devastating hurricanes. New Orleans has been walled off because of a deadly disease. Th...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
StoryCorps: Andy Downs and Angelia Sheer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Andy Downs (L) and Angelia Sheer (R)
On October 4, 1971, George Giffe, a 35-year-old Tennessee man suffering from mental illness hijacked a charter plane at gunpoint from the Nashville...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
No Mountain High Enough
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865, Credit: Currier & Ives, Library of Congress
Historian Brenda Stevenson talks with Ed about the extraordinary struggles black families endured to reunite, after slavery had wrenched them apart.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 2
Once, Twice, Three Times a Free Man
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865, Credit: Currier & Ives, Library of Congress
Freedom was a tenuous reality for many former slaves in the early days of the federally occupied South, with bands of returning soldiers — now out ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1