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City Southwest
From: Black Mountain Radio
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In an essay for The Believer, the Black Mountain Institute’s flagship magazine, the writer Kyle Paoletta declares that there is a singular ethos of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:13
Playing Friday
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Sam Forbes is a writer, photographer, and actor. For many years, a significant part of her creative practice took place inside what she calls a hid...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 12:28
Invisible Ink
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Fifteen years ago this month, on April 6, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spoke to a crowded lecture hall on the campus of the University of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 21:01
The Big Ponder #11: Home
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for Justice
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...they are taking justice out in the backyard..., Credit: In "Breathing: American Sonnets" by Susan Cook
A sonnet about justice when it is buried and forgotten.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #4: Anatomy of an Apology
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #3: Radio Wanderlust
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Bilal Qureshi explores the German-English idea of ‘Wanderlust’ through his personal audio archives and conversations with fellow travelers. Does th...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.7: Standout
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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Have you ever found yourself looking around in a meeting or a class only to realize that you are the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be har...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 34:53
"Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19"
From: Shirley Jahad
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We bring you stories of "Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19." Each story crosses a line ... from before pandemic ... to after. The stories e...

Bought by Valley Public Radio, KCSB-FM, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 11
Building Community One (Dance) Step at a Time
From: David Condos
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Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
For Whom the Bell Tolls
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets in Gulf of Maine Books window, Credit: Susan Cook
Some years back The House of Representatives' healthcare bill denied maternity care and denied health insurance to 18 to 25 year olds. Back then...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
For Kids' Sake
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 1
Teens Take Over
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 1
Blocks and Brownstones
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedmad
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 1
Our Garbage, Ourselves
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1
Ruined
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2019
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My piece is about my journey through life since 4th grade, when I realized I was an LGBTQ+ individual.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 10:07
Finding Moral Ground: The Limits of Logic and the Abstraction of Deitys in These Times
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ...finding moral ground..., Credit: Susan J. Cook
Moral Development thinkers of the 1960's and 70's helped make sense of those polarized times. The "moral" twist of these times is often reduced to ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2019
  • Length: 07:35
Across the Reference Desk
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 1
New Americans
From: Brooklyn Public Library
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Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 21:11
Why Women Don't Tell, Part 2: July 20, 1969 for Some Women Means Remembering Violence
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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The 54th anniversary of the Moon Landing reminds some of us that violence toward women and girls is still minimized.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 06:29
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 30 | Summer Fashion 2019 | Capsule | Part 1
From: Tom Howell
Series: 2019 New York Sumer Fashion: Capsule 4
Caption: Kolor Showroom, Credit: Tom Howell
From Korean and Italian Business to Business importer to a local scarf designer Tom kicks off the season with a fun informal walkabout around the C...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:06:34
Speaking As If They Know: Legislators and Reproductive Rights
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Legislators in Maine and across the country debate now bills to limit Reproductive Rights. Their limited or completely absent knowledge of the dep...

  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 07:09
Compassion and Its Blindspots: Women's Turn for No Compassion in Alabama
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Boddhisaatva Vow
A Buddhist teacher talking about Compassion told the story of the leader ripping open his vein to feed a starving stranger. Bodily acts coming out...

  • Added: May 18, 2019
  • Length: 08:09

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