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Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 15:58
- Purchases: 1
Youth Radio's Billy Cruz grew up dreaming of the day he would join the family business... but when the time finally came, his dream job wasn't all ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 01:03
The Fair Food Program is recognized as one of the great human rights success stories of our day. This unique farmworker- and consumer-driven initia...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installm...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 25:59
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 5
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:44
Today's show features a profile of Seattle Youth Garden Works.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 10:22
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
In this short piece, students decide to talk about their neighborhood and interview folks at a nearby flea market, where they run into other studen...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 04:14
Sanjay Rawal talks corporate responsibility, the power of protest, and the difference a penny can make.
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 32:51
Lia Claire Scholl on I Heart Sex Workers; Alexander Badenoch on writer's block and radio.
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 36:44
Lia Claire Scholl on harm reduction activism; Katy Scrogin on The Experience of God.
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 39:08
What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 04:58
Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Doctors and dietitians recommend that we eat more fruits and vegetables for better health. But do you know who harvests our produce, and under what...
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 28:00
If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...
Bought by WJCT, WMNF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, WLIW and more
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...
Bought by WCNY, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WXDU, WTJU, and KKRN
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 5
In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a new generation of business leaders have launched a cultural shift, with many trying to increase female co...
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 21:25
This is the first of the series of shows for Women with Women. Lauri Rich was my first guest and she addressed the question "Can a woman have it al...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 46:22
Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 58:35
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 02:30
