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682.V: ANYTIME CLASSICAL EXTENDED, 5/13/2024 9:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL Extended Pieces
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4 works, including GERSHWIN: TIP-TOES: Overture. Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
682.C: ANYTIME CLASSICAL EXTENDED, 5/13/2024 2:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL Extended Pieces
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4 works, including GERSHWIN: TIP-TOES: Overture. Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel.

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
WoodSongs 1086: Larry & Joe and Sistah La La
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Larry & Joe on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Larry & Joe two master musicians who merge Appalachian bluegrass with tra...

Bought by KUCO, KMUN, KBRW, WEJP-LP 107.1, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Out of Gas, In with Justice
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Collective Real Estate: Land Without Landlords?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Decades of discrimination have left millions of African Americans shut out of the housing market and at risk of being targeted by predatory lenders...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Geo Maher, A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE and John Cavanagh & Robin Broad, THE WATER DEFENDERS
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Geo Maher about his new book, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Then, we hear the thrilling and hope...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 01:07:08
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
All the Women in My Family Sing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Santana
There’s a growing awareness of solidarity among women. They refuse to be silenced. What began as a Women’s March in January 2017 has now evolved in...

Bought by WJSU and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Fight of Their Lives (pledge drive special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Lyon Press
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 21:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Miguel Alvarez (L) and Maurice Rowland (R) remember caring for residents at an assisted living home, where they were a janitor and a cook, when it ...

Bought by WRIR, Blue Mountain Radio , WTJU, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 4
How We Survive: Predatory Mending
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Community Check Cashing in Oakland, CA, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
This week we talk to lenders who are doing things differently and to people who are helping others stave off financial scammers.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
"My Phonebook" by Jesus Lark
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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Overcoming the struggles of those around him, this young writer confronts drug overdose, HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, gang involvement and imprisonmen...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
Making the Migrant's Journal
From: Tanya Ott
Caption: PRX default Piece image
sound-rich story of a musical collaboration to celebrate the ethnic diversity of Miami

  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 06:49
The Softer Iron Triangle
From: Hana Baba
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The most dangerous city in California actually has much more to offer

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:54
Voices of Courage in the Civil Rights Movement
From: Janis Shields
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Mary Frances Berry, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania explores how we can achieve true social and economic justice in American...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 30:51