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For prisons to function smoothly and profitably, the major tools of
control – violence, surveillance, separation – must be complimented by a
host o...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:13
We are live from the floor of the Javitz Center
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 54:00
This week, we explore various spaces of exception. We spoke with Matt Peterson, a documentary filmmaker and contributor to a multimedia project cal...
- Added: Dec 30, 2016
- Length: 29:58
Our episode focuses on the experience of being pregnant while in prison. We speak with Dr. Alicia Suarez, PhD, who teaches at DePauw University. ...
- Added: Dec 28, 2016
- Length: 26:56
This first episode of Kite Line is an introduction to some of the issues we want to cover here on the show. We give updates on prison news, talk ab...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Joaquin Murrieta became notorious during the California gold rush, and even inspired an author to write a famous swashbuckler. And an ancient city...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 02:25:39
The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:44:41
In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson J...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 29:53
When it comes to the bourbon Pappy Van Winkle, it doesn’t matter who you are or how much money you have — you can’t get it unless you’re exceptiona...
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- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 23:53
- Purchases: 1
Education is moving away from a more lecture style to a focus on interactivity while engaging and building relationships with students like never b...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
Brittney Packnett gives a passionate speech to honor the civil rights leader birthday.
Bought by WSLR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
It’s not every day that a local person becomes a saint, but on September 23rd, more than two hundred years after he died, Junípero Serra will be ca...
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- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 1
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
We all have our secret talents— like that poem you memorized in high school, or your ability to burp the alphabet. This podcast explores three extr...
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 26:34
Obituary for Legendary blues musician, B.B. King
Bought by KVNF and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA
- Added: May 17, 2015
- Length: 10:08
- Purchases: 2
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 2
Hundreds of students at Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco are taking part in a nationwide Tech Timeout, challenging students to unplug f...
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- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:22
- Purchases: 1
Ryan Dawes explores the character of Sherlock Holmes, past and present, by meeting with a group of Minnesotans devoted to preserving Sherlockian cu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
These days, local craft beer is all the rage, and new taprooms are popping up all over the Twin Cities. But a look into the past reveals there's no...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 03:54
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
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
The golden dome of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church has long been a part of the south Minneapolis skyline. KFAI producer Britt Aamodt visits the ch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:17
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
- Purchases: 1
Hosted by Dave Seastrom, Pam Raider, Vera Grubbs, Rick Fettig & Jeff Foster.
First aired Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 9 AM on WFHB
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 59:01