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When we’re kids, we have ideas of what we want to be when we grow up — movie star, doctor, astronaut. But what if we dream of being like Butch Cass...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 21:05
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 04:23
What do you do when you realize that in order to be true to yourself, you have to shatter everything around you, including the lives of those you l...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 40:52
How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 25:43
Mark Baird & Terry Rapoza explain the Jefferson movement on THE TIME TRAVELER
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 03:18:28
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
"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 29:02
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
In this episode, host Richie Rugburn interviews Larry W. Jones about his life and inspiration behind his lyric writing.
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 01:00:00
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
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
Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 24:43
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
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...
Bought by KSJD
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Today on our show, four stories of people who tried to see themselves clearly
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
In this week's show, a parakeet, a Spanish-language learner, and a professor help make the human voice weird again.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 3
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2014
- Length: 13:29
- Purchases: 2
When my sister placed her baby for adoption, she and the adoptive parents developed an unexpected relationship.
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 10:06
What conclusions about parenthood will teenagers come to after participating in their AP Psychology class’ flour baby project? Listen as they share...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 01, 2014
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 2
In this first episode of The State We're In podcast/radio show reboot (now from WBEZ), host Jonathan Groubert speaks with a man who know a thing or...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 25:58
One day in 1994, Steve Davies lived the dream of every soccer fan. He was plucked from the crowd by Harry Redknapp, the manager of his favorite tea...
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 25:12
