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Smackdown: City Hall vs Big Oil
From: Claire Schoen
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Richmond California is a working class town that grew up in the shadow of a Chevron refinery. The company ran both the economy – and the local gove...

Bought by KUOW, KUNM, WFAE, WAMU, WUTC and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans Day Soldier Story: Bob Buntin
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bob Buntin, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:48
Marching for Their Lives without Thoughts and Prayers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
Russia's Anti-Revolution: 100 years after the Revolution (director's cut)
From: Hechtech
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Pete Seeger: Plain and Complicated
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many. Seeger’s ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26
  • Purchases: 1
A Nation of Immigrants, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Utopiah: Stories of Refugees
From: Tamarra Kemsley
Caption: The Marquez family during their stay in the Venezuela embassy., Credit: Berta Marquez
With 65 million living as refugees and migrants, the world has never had more forcibly displaced people than it does now. In this 45-minute documen...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 48:05
Charlie Chaplin on the Radio
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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How the heck do you get a silent film star on the radio?

  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:16:54
Reconciliation, a Tale of Two Seas
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: Castles in the sky and in the sand, Bahrain, Credit: Hebah Fisher
It's 2011, and Bahrain is a divided society.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 42:13
  • Purchases: 1
Contenders (Hour Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
Caption: William Jennings Bryan
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 22
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
S1E2 - The Blight Fight
From: ONE EIGHTY
Series: ONE-EIGHTY
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How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 25:43
Baird, Rapoza and the State of Jefferson
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Mark Baird & Terry Rapoza explain the Jefferson movement on THE TIME TRAVELER

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:18:28
Deconstructing the Death Penalty
From: Raborn Johnson
Caption: The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison, completed in 2010., Credit: CACorrections (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Come with us as we deconstruct popular understandings of the death penalty through the stories of lives caught up in the web of state-sponsored kil...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Heartland, Missouri
From: KBIA
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For the past year, KBIA has been working on an investigative story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It’s a story with threads ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Mr. Female Members of Knesset
From: Israel Story
Caption: Mishy Harman and his grandmother, Zena Harman.
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 21:25
The Terry Project on CiTR #53: The End of Civilization Ecovillage
From: CiTR's Terry Project
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Gordon Katic is an environmentalist, but he doesn’t get out of the city very much. He’s plugged into politics, but removed from nature. So he board...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 42:29
Part 6: Back at Home
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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The Mount Polley taililngs pond breach happened a couple of weeks after Liz returned from the Action Camp. She speaks to author Arno Kopecky about ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:40
Part 5: The Activists
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:43
Part 4: The Bunkhouse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Dave Ages led construction of an insulated bunkhouse to allow volunteers to live year-round at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. He talked to Liz ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 15:28
Listening
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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Listening is way more than just paying attention, and this week's show explores how.

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 3
You Are How You Sound
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1