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Our National Parks: Turning Admiration Into Action
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: National park boundaries that don’t comport with ecological realities make it challenging to protect animals that range outside the parks. It's just one of the challenges facing the National Park Service., Credit: Tim Rains / NPS
The National Park Service finds itself in a seemingly paradoxical circumstance: widely admired, but increasingly uneasy about its ability to carry ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Our National Parks: For The Benefit Of All
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: The Deep Ravine Trail at Little Big Horn National Monument in Montana., Credit: Brandon Blackburn / NPS
National parks have famously been called “America’s best idea." This expression is commonly interpreted as meaning preservation of America’s iconic...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Sam Roberts on Labor History
From: LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
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Sam Roberts of the New York Times speaks on labor history at the unveiling of the 2016 Working People calendar, outlining important labor milestone...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:07
Episode 22 - One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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A trio of sisters fly from Brooklyn to Oakland in the late 1960's to get to know their estranged mother. She sends them to a rather unusual summer ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 20:04
Our National Parks: Ways To Experience The Parks
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Rocky Ocean Drive on the Park Loop Road in Acadia National Park, Maine. The Park Loop Road allows visitors to experience Acadia by car. , Credit: Kristi Rugg / National Park Service
I’m often asked, “What’s your favorite national park?” It’s a question that gets me excited, thinking about all the parks I’ve been fortunate to vi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Our National Parks: The Idea
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Six million-acre Gates of the Arctic National Park was established in 1980. , Credit: Ben Minteer
There were national parks even before there was a National Park Service. Yellowstone National Park was the first in 1872. More big western parks fo...

Bought by Radio Newark and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 2
Our National Parks: The Best View
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Denali Star Trails as seen from Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce, Utah. Increasingly, the sky above national parks is considered as much a resource to protect as the land below., Credit: Jacob W. Frank | The National Park Service
It’s an understatement to say that the views in the national parks are striking. Take Bryce Canyon National Park, for instance, with its legions of...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Newark, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 6
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Adaptation) ***FREE***
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Radio Theater
Caption: Hamlet Classic Available To PRX Members Free, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua's radio version of Hamlet. In 1982, Bevilacqua's Hamlet was picked up and distributed ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 04:09:43
A Language Teacher's Fight to Save the Western Armenian Dialect
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Hratch Sepetjian stands in front of his class on a typical day. He gets frustrated when his students do not take the Armenian lessons seriously., Credit: Andy Vasoyan
A century after Armenians fled genocide in 1915, language teacher Hratch Sepetjian is fighting to keep their dialect – Western Armenian – alive in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:09
Kat Norris shares her experiences and thoughts about residential school and the TRC
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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I speak to Kat Norris Indigenous activist and founder of the Indigenous Action Movement about her experiences in residential school, how she has tu...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 27:42
2015 Anniversaries Show #2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This weeks Rock School continues off from the last episode. This is the 2nd part of a two part episode discussing anniversaries for 2015. Dr.Burns...

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Some Wampanoag Tribe Members Leery of Plymouth 400 Commemoration
From: Alexandra Morrow
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Some members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe are concerned that their perspective won't be adequately portrayed at the 400th commemoration of the Pi...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:47
Discover the Bahamas
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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The Bahamas is composed of more than 700 islands and is the nearest resort destination to the U.S. mainland after Cuba. It has a varied history.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2014
  • Length: 13:41
Equity in the School System
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Education Matters with Pedro Noguera
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In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Italy's Year of Culture
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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Let's travel radio explores Italy and the year of the culture.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:05
Holocaust Education & Commemoration
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
Caption: Nuremberg trial filming
This episode of Community Conversations is dedicated to Holocaust education and commemoration. 75 years after Kristalnacht, there are still so man...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 2
Passion, Death, and Resurrection
From: William Cook
Series: Family Theater
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Passion, Death, and Resurrection

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Bean Blossom Bluegrass festival
From: Christopher Mosson
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Bean Blossom, population 15, attracts more than 20,000 bluegrass fans every year. How and why has bluegrass lasted several generations? This was ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 1
Minneapolis elder Rosa Bogar
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Rosa Bogar, Credit: Glen Stubbe
A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Rosa Mavins Bogar grew up in a family of 13 children and lived through segregation. Calling Minneapolis her...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
How Ellis Island's Immigrant Artifacts Washed Up In Maryland
From: Emily Berman
Caption: Bob Sonderman unpacks boxes of Ellis Island artifacts
When Superstorm Sandy wrecked the mid-Atlantic coast last fall, national parks took a big hit. Ellis Island got knocked so hard, it landed in Mary...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
Womens History Month 2013 - 21-piece series
From: WDSE
Series: Womens History Month series
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KUMD brings you another year of daily segments for every weekday in March. Honoring Women of Minnesota who contribute to the advancement of women e...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBEM, KVSC, KSRQ, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 6
HV Special: Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance)
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
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Special For Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Memorial Week

Bought by WCPN, WCPN, KWIT, WRVO Public Media, KQED and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 28
Lincoln through Poetry
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Strike
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 27
The Lost Mine of Padre Larue
From: New Mexico Centennial
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Truth or legend? New Mexico’s most persistent treasure tale: the lost mine of Padre Larue.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:58