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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 1
America’s bird, the bald eagle, is facing a tremendous challenge. As scavengers, they feed on what we and other animals leave behind. But lead cont...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:03
Flying squirrels glow pink under a blacklight. How many other mammals do this? What causes them to glow? The hardest question of all might never be...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:50
Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely kno...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:07
My piece depicts the systemic racism that has infested the educational system and environment.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 04:06
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:49
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 23:32
Documentary film and science do not appear to have much in common, except that, philosophically, they have everything in common. Two men met in 197...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 48:08
An army whistle-blower returns to combat during the height of the surge in Iraq, now surrounded me hostile comrades. We then look at the morality o...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 46:14
"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It ...
Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KICI Iowa City, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio, KISU and more
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 67
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"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unf...
Bought by KUHF
- Added: Dec 14, 2016
- Length: 01:48
- Purchases: 1
This Cutting Edge Special looks at the life of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 01:00:16
How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 25:43
In part 1 of our series on the decline of football in America, we look at the importance of football in America, and we also examine the rise and f...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 15:00
Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 12:16
For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 03:00
In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 26
A visit to the workshop of master instrument-maker Gerald Anderson as he works alongside his luthier apprentice, award-winning musician Spencer Str...
- Added: Oct 10, 2005
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2