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National Writers Series: Peter Matthiessen
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Peter Matthiessen talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
Making Art, Creating Culture
From: Cathy Byrd
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Today’s conversations expand on the definition of the word ‘artist.’’ During Miami Art Week, artist and educator Sharon Louden, with her frequent c...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 32:20
Childbirth, Babies & Bonuses
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
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New research on how providing incentives for doctors in the developing world might help more women survive childbirth.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people....

Bought by WCNY, WCQS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
WorldCanvass: What's in a Word? The Translator's Challenge (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 51:57
WorldCanvass: What's in a Word? The Translator's Challenge (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 25:45
WorldCanvass: What's in a Word? The Translator's Challenge (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. S...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:27
Creative Time Summit 2018 Miami
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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In 2018, when the annual Creative Time Summit unfolds in Miami, we’re thrilled to participate. On Archipelagoes and Other Imaginaries: Collective S...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:13
The Write Question - Gwen Florio - 443
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and journalist Gwen Florio discusses her literary novel, Silent Hearts. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.
From: Ian Elsner
Caption: Buzludzha as it appears today.
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 09:59
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Hawaii on Frontlines of Preparing for Nuclear Attack
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: North Korean missile test , Credit: Courtesy the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency
As tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States, Hawaii finds itself on the frontlines in preparing for a nuclear attack. Whether or...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
Working dogs help to protect wildlife
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Isabelle Groc is an environmental writer and conservation photographer based in Vancouver. She recently wrote an article for Ensia about working do...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 14:56
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Night Skies
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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It's a sweet nocturnal glow that illuminates our pathway on this Folktale--and the 'audio view' is spectacular!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
"They're Just People" (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Learning lessons on immigration in one of the nation's largest detention centers -- Tracking poachers in Appalachia

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS, KMUN, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
English for Detainees (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the immigration debate heating up once again, two Virginia professors are taking their students to ICE detention centers in an effort to bust ...

Bought by KENW, KRZA, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 4
It's A Jungle Out There (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Folktale of Balance
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Balance, Credit: Julia Meek
Here's hoping you'll spend an hour with us this week on Folktales for a musical listen to just what hangs in the balance!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, 'The Sea', 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Face-to-Face Diplomacy (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Face-to-Face Diplomacy (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11
Face-to-Face Diplomacy (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Are Diplomatic Trips Worth It? (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Even as President Trump returns from two high profile international tours, digital technologies seem ever more like they could replace costly diplo...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
A Nation of Immigrants, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
From War Zone to Peace Work
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

Bought by WPSU, KUNM, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Catskill, and KUNM


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shifting Sands (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How the US is getting it wrong in the Middle East - The far-right takeover of Eastern Europe - Tracking foreign aid - Gaming out the rise and fall ...

Bought by WLPR and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2