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Pete Seeger's Early Years: Music, Politics, and the Banjo
From: Adam Morse
Series: There Is A Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
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This episode delves into Pete Seeger's early years growing up in upstate New York and at boarding school; his political worldview as channeled thro...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 48:39
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 42
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about people struggling to see eye-to-eye.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Happens When the People Decide?
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 32:45
Black Student Voices Matter
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2020
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I'm Shawn Hughes and a student from Walter Payton College Prep. This project details, despite the success, the complications and struggles that our...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 07:15
Front Lines of Partisanship with Dr Charles Wheelan
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In Episode 2, our guests include a former Republican speechwriter, a former centrist Democratic congressional candidate, a former Economist Magazin...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 23:18
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, explores Judi Bari’s bold activism to save the Redwood Forest in the face of corporate gre...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
From Piers to Plantations
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: ILWU Local 142 Mural (section)
The story of Hawai’i, as told through the voices of Karl Malden, Ed Asner, Carroll O’Connor, Congressional members Patsy Mink, Neil Abercrombie and...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
Fixing School Finance
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Photo of the Texas Capital building on March 11, 2019, during a rally for education finance reform., Credit: Pius Wong
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 41:58
Propositions (aka Ballot Measures)
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Direct democracy. What are the pros and cons?

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 25:55
State and Local Elections
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The state and local offices that have a big impact on your life.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 21:52
I Think Those New Laws Are Very Unfair
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Spanish teacher Martha Ross shares her experiences as a migrant from Guatemala to the U.S. and helping immigrant students and their families.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 09:34
Spies of Mississippi
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Poland
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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The topic of this month's episode is Poland. Let's Travel Radio discusses, with special guests, the key differences between Western and Eastern Eur...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:47
Kill 'Em Dead with Needle and Thread
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
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Jeremiah Williams, better known as Flag Boy Twin, may have left New Orleans, but he brought his rich heritage as a Mardi Gras Indian with him. Part...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Little Falls Students Practice for the Regional History Day Competition
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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From the discovery of a Chicken Pox vaccine to Louis Armstrong’s influence on music to the numerous ways that women have fought for equal rights ov...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
Ep 54 - Nicole Liedke/Compassionate Care Center of CT | Bobby Pickles’ Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nicole Liedke (right)
Podcasting from Compassionate Care Center of CT (one of the six medical marijuana dispensaries in that state) Bobby, on location in the quaint town...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 33:47
Nature Has No Borders
From: Tom & Debra Weistar
Series: Voices of the Future: Youth and Elders Speak Together
Caption: On the Baja CA Coast
Juan learns about the conservation efforts of WildCoast, an organization based in Imperial Beach, California, and Ensenada, Mexico, that works on b...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 11:56
  • Purchases: 2
How He Did It
From: Trevor Keaton Pogue
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Tony Lucero is a Mexican American professor at The University of Washington. In this piece, Professor Lucero tells us how he came to be an educato...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
The Long Game: Texas' Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom
From: Trey Kay
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"Long Game" is a new radio documentary about ongoing culture war battles over education in the Lone Star State.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WESM 91.3 FM, Louisville Public Media, KERA, WRPI and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Louder Than A Bomb 2013 Radio Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: 2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Public Sense Episode 2: Concealed Carry
From: Alexander Kirkpatrick
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We discuss the implications of Colorado's Concealed Carry Act. We Interview Virginia Tech Massacre survivor and gun control advocate, Colin Goddard...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 12:01
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
Clear and Present Danger
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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The outer bounds of the right to free speech, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter. How does the law tolerate speech that calls for lawlessness?

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 3
Students Tell Gov. Corbett: Education is a Human Right. Fund it that Way
From: On Blast
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On Valentine's Day, more than 400 students and parents from across Pennsylvania held a rally for public education at the State Capitol. This action...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1