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When Marie Röder was eight years old, she survived a terrifying encounter with a wild boar in the depths of Berlin’s dark Tegeler Forst. The fright...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 12:16
In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 48:25
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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...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 46:29
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We explore the motivations and challenges of converts as they carve out a uniquely American path for being Muslim in the United States. We profile ...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 08:23
Humanity has a mission right now, whether we recognize it or not: to keep global heating to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (about 2.7 F) over pre...
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 03:37
Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...
Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 06, 2022
- Length: 27:02
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How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...
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- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 28:17
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What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...
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- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:06
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Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson tells the wild story of how he found his birth parents.
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 2
The theme of this special is a great fit for your programming needs in the days leading up to and the days following the July 4th holiday! This sel...
Bought by WRKF, KUAF Public Radio, KMXT, WABE, WJCT and more
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 41
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
Herbalism is seeing a huge rise in popularity, as more and more people turn to natural remedies to keep their bodies healthy. In this episode of Gr...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 17:38
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 27:53
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 25:55
Regenerative agriculture is more than a human-centered enterprise: it means working with nature and alongside other creatures, to accomplish larger...
- Added: Apr 09, 2021
- Length: 23:34
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
Phyllis Wilson, a retired Army veteran of 37 years and President of the Military Women’s Memorial Foundation, joins us to talk about the Memorial a...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 42:48
From: World Footprints LLC
Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 32:22
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:52
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Superhumans is an immersive audio docu-series that takes you deep into the unspoken intersection of health & humanity. In each episode, real people...
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 04:39
