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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 45:08
- Purchases: 1
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 58:13
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
In this episode, we ask how Colorado Springs' evangelical Christian community has changed in the decade since former New Life Church Pastor Ted Hag...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 58:59
In this episode of Wish We Were here, we tell the story of Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 59:05
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
No one wants to go to prison, but when the St. Cloud Correctional Facility opened its doors to the press last year during its 125th anniversary, KF...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:12
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
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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
They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That's a question being asked in locker rooms the wo...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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From patrolling the streets of Sunset Boulevard to infiltrating prostitution rings, this female police officer has seen it all. Patty Corso’s persp...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 07:41
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 59:00
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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
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 01:44
On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 12:16
"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 2
Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters of the century...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 2
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 2
Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents banded together to create a ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 3
You’ve just been arrested, charged with a felony and can’t afford to pay your bail, let alone hire a lawyer. You know you have the right to a trial...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 13:00
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Is the law ever a laughing matter? We present to you a brief history of attempted comedy in the toughest room in the country—the Supreme Courtroom.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 12:16
- Purchases: 1
George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 16:09
- Purchases: 4
When playing with bugs became macabre Diane started inviting people on "the spectrum" to live with her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:32
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 13:22
