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Announcing Best of the Best 2019
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2019 Third Coast Festival Broadcast
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival is back with our annual Best of the Best broadcast, featuring the winners of the 2019 Third Coast / Ri...

Bought by KALW, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WFHB, WABE and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
Cold Comfort | Extra 03 | What Have You Done for Me Lately?
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Join us on a journey into a permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3
Welcome to Surviving California
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
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A limited series podcast produced by graduate students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Calif...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:15
Funky Presidents Day
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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Have your listening audience enjoy Presidents Day with a fun musicial experience.

Bought by KMXT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:02
  • Purchases: 3
Street Art Expo 2018 Part 1
From: Tom Howell
Series: Street Art
Caption: Street Art Expo Artist, Credit: Tom Howell
Tom talks to street artist at the 2018 Street Art Expo in New York City.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2018
  • Length: 31:45
"Crossroads" Hour 8 of Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
From: CultureWorks
Series: "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" narrated by Susan Sarandon
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Hour 8 “Crossroads” (1968-1978) We follow Bernstein as he leaves the Philharmonic in 1968 to concentrate more on composition. With overtones of S...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 4
Bernstein The Composer, Part 1
From: CultureWorks
Series: "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" narrated by Susan Sarandon
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Bernstein: The Composer, Part 1 (of 2) Bernstein’s role as a composer is often overshadowed by his roles as conductor and teacher. This hour will...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, WWNO, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 5
The Effective Ex-Offender, Episode 107
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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Keron started creating his future the minute he arrived in prison. Over seven years he read close to 1000 books, books that would prepare him for a...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:40
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
Choices - Episode 106
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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Choices - Sounds easy, right? but for many with a criminal background, a choice makes all the difference.

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
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
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 18 | Reef-A-Palooza: Part 2
From: Tom Howell
Series: Reef-A-Palooza
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The UnCommonCore Podcast is about the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us different from each other. Content includes live to tape rec...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 47:02
Episode 1: Welcome to Watershed!
From: Justin Glanville
Series: Watershed Cleveland
Caption: Dawn Arrington, Credit: Angie Hayes
Welcome to Watershed, a podcast about life in a group of neighborhoods on the East Side of Cleveland.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 08:25
Ep 03. Palm Treo - Eric & Brittany
From: Kismet Podcast
Series: Kismet
Caption: Kismet
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...

  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 23:32
The Ashes of Truth
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Documentary film and science do not appear to have much in common, except that, philosophically, they have everything in common. Two men met in 197...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 48:08
The Name of God
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 47:05
Soldier Philosophers Part 1: Moral Exploitation
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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As a new U.S. administration takes hold, with talk of new military action against ISIS in the Middle East, and the reinstatement of Bush-era tortur...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 45:50
The Wishes of the Dead
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 46:43
Season 2 Ep. 5: Ties That Bind
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains is a source of pride and peace; for his mom and dad it is a source of constant worry...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2 Ep. 3: Fighting the Odds
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Two stories about people fighting and overcoming tough odds: First, the tale of Tony Bosco, who camped in the woods around Rutgers University for m...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 56:28
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2 Ep. 2: Go Big or Go Home
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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The rise and fall of the Keene Pumpkin Festival, a quaint New England tradition that took a dark turn when riots broke out in 2014. Plus, the calme...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 56:27
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2 Ep. 1: Take the Reins
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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When a Harvard professor accidentally let Gypsy Moths loose in the 1860s, he didn't release he was unleashing a scourge that would plague New Engla...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1 Ep. 5: Stake Your Claim
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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There used to be a time when you could strike out into the vast unexplored wilderness and stake your claim – but not anymore. Today, the story of ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:27

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