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INFINITELY POLAR BEAR -- Maya Forbes Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Maya Forbes talks understanding social cues, having honest conversations, and being a sloppy dynamic team.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:18
StoryCorps: Pastor David Ned
From: StoryCorps
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In the 1970s, Pastor David Ned learned an important lesson about himself after what could have been a tragic situation.

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
A Focused and Fast-Moving Huck Finn
From: KFAI Minneapolis
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Composer Victor Zupanc and actor Ansa Akeya of the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis discuss the challenges and charm of Mark Twain's "Huck...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:05
James Hannaham discusses "Delicious Foods"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
Filmmaker Sam Pollard celebrates August Wilson.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Playwright Christina Anderson
From: New Letters on the Air
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We revisit up-and-coming playwright, Christina Anderson. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, her plays have been produced around the country--from Ne...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Multi Ethnic Theater: Finding common ground through theater
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Cast of Multi Ethnic Theater's "Jitney"
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
Snap 521: The Passion Part 1: Snap Live! In SF, 9/11/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next Snap, we're dropping the story-pocalypse. Snap Judgment presents "The Passion" performed LIVE! in San Francisco's Nourse Theater. Amazi...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
StoryCorps: Alex Landau and Patsy Hathaway
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Mytokia Fair and Thomas Fair
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Deaths, the Valiant Never Taste of Death but Once
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: Nelson Mandela in his cell on Robben Island
The story of the Robben Island Shakespeare, smuggled into South Africa's Robben Island Prison.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:41
  • Purchases: 1
DON MURRAY: UNSUNG HERO -- Don Malcolm Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Don Malcolm, San Francisco, CA 7/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Don Malcolm talks chance meetings, cultural metaphors, and the courage of convictions.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 17:25
BLACKBIRD -- Mo’Nique, Patrik-Ian Polk and Julian Walker Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Patrik-Ian Polk, Mo’Nique, and Julian Walker San Francisco, CA 6/22/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mo’Nique, Patrik-Ian Polk and Julian Walker talk love, changing locations, and the difference between a job and an opportunity.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 11:46
American Achiever: Sojourner Truth
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: American Achievers: Lovers of Freedom
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In May 1851, a group of women gathered at a conference in Akron, Ohio after having unsuccessfully petitioned the Ohio Constitutional Convention of ...

Bought by KUNM and WEZU


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 2
American Achiever: Maria Stewart
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: American Achievers: Lovers of Freedom
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Born as a free Black in Connecticut in 1803, Maria Stewart would make history on September 21, 1832 when she became the earliest known American wom...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 2
American Achiever: Henry Highland Garnet
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: American Achievers: Lovers of Freedom
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An advocate of militant abolitionism, and renowned for his skills as a public speaker, Henry Highland Garnet advocated armed insurrection as the be...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 1
American Achiever: Frederick Douglass
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: American Achievers: Lovers of Freedom
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After Frederick Douglass escaped north to gain freedom from American slavery, he became a major abolitionist. Actor Charles Dutton provides narrati...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Higher Powers
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Audra McDonald, Credit: Autumn de Wilde
Aidan Quinn, Audra McDonald and Tonya Pinkins star in shorts by John Patrick Shanley (Oscar, Pulitzer, Tony winner) and Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Priz...

Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
A Conversation with Actor/Activist, Rachael Holmes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes. [26:52]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, KPIP-LP, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 26:52
  • Purchases: 4
The Writ Writer - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Scipio A. Jones, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Writ Writer - part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: The Writ Writer, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
This is a story that begs to be told. It’s long overdue. The year was 1919. The place: Phillips County, Arkansas. What became a watershed moment i...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
12 YEARS A SLAVE -- Lupita Nyong'o Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Lupita Nyong'o, San Francisco, CA 10/12/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lupita Nyong’o talks honoring the characters, giving voice to the voiceless, and meeting Solomon Northup’s descendants.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
12 YEARS A SLAVE -- Chiwetel Ejiofor Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Chiwetel Ejiofor, San Francisco, CA 10/11/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Chiwetel Ejiofor talks depicting violence, the myth of the “good master,” and speaking Solomon Northup’s own words.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 11:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Hospital Always Wins
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union: Season Four
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In this special hour from State of the Re:Union, we take listeners to a place that exists in every American city… but most of us have never seen th...

Bought by WRGY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, Radio Catskill, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 37