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Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, and later became the youngest ...

  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 27:25
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 26:36
Caption: Bill Shanabruch leads Conservation Landscaping Workshop.
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 26:08
Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 26:38
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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
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Schools have reopened in Fall 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic, and educators are putting in overtime to make it work. Four educators speak about th...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 46:33
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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
Caption: Cover Art by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
What’s changed because of the pandemic? And how is it different for different people? In this first episode of the Felixity podcast, I talk to a fe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC
Join us as we walk in the footsteps of America’s rich history and discover some places that bring history alive.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 31:17
Caption: June 2019 Pride Month marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. In "Stonewall 50" WFUV News explores the events leading up to the night of June 28, 1969 and the past five decades of the LGBTQIA+ movement., Credit: Photos: AP Images, Creative Commons; Collage: Valeria Villarroel
The Gay Liberation Movement is widely recognized as having begun nearly fifty years ago in New York City. On June 28, 1969, patrons at a gay bar ca...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WHFR and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 6
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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
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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
Caption: ouda in front of KXCI–photo by her teacher Christina
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
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Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license! Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Ohm Room, Credit: Tom Howell
Episode 22: New York Audio Show: Part 2 | Entry to Expert | Tom interviews representatives from Marantz, Tweak Studio, Audio Note, Rollo Audio fe...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2018
  • Length: 47:46
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The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 38:02
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Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:28
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angelica Garcia-Dunn
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 12:45
Caption: No More Wine Teeth Stains!
Hold on Tightly! We discuss Exciting Wine Art and teach you the Secrets for not staining your Teeth with Red Wine! An informational & mirthful sh...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: New York City Young Gun, Credit: Photo taken by George Samuals 1984
This is a series of interviews designed to showcase various attitudes held in the African American Community about Gun Ownership in General, and Co...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:05
Caption: Miguel del Aguila, Credit: Donna Granata
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1