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639: Shapeshifting / 640: Music Beyond Genre, 11/20/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in th...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
637: Living With Loneliness / 638: Who Owns Seeds?, 11/13/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Ep. 10: Protecting Ohio's Water
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: The Great Miami River as seen from downtown Dayton’s RiverScape Metro Park. This area of Dayton would have been about 20 feet underwater in 1913 following the Great Dayton Flood. , Credit: Lauren Shows
Water has a power unlike almost any other element on Earth. In large enough quantities or with enough force behind it, water can effectively lay wa...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:05
2021-09-10 Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

Bought by KUHF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
210910: Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse, 9/10/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 8: Following Ancient Grains from Farm to Table
From: Grounded Hope
Caption: Heritage Oberkulmer Spelt and Einkorn Wheat from Tom and Mary Klein & Son’s Organic Farm in Carey, Ohio. , Credit: Renee Wilde
Today’s grocery store wheat comes from a variety of grains that were crossbred in the 1960’s to produce a higher yielding and lower cost crop. Th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:48
603: African Cities Of The Future / 604: Loving Bees, 7/17/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "African Cities Of The Future" - The fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. We'll take you there with a special TTBOOK from A...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
591: Secrets of Alchemy / 592: Thinking With Animals, 6/5/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Secrets Of Alchemy" - The leading science of the 17th century was alchemy, the transformation of matter. What was it really? Could we st...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Paranormal Cafe with Dr. Bob Curran & The Green Man
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Walking with the Green Man, Credit: Career Press
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.57_Earth Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world, but it wouldn't have been possible if people didn't speak up for what is right. 40 years ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Episode 3 - Agroforestry
From: Grounded Hope
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This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:53
Part 1: The City
From: Robyn Shipton
Series: Water Is For Fighting
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On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
Armada of the Dragoons
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes b...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Latsch: The Man and His River, a film by Mary Farrell and Fran Edstrom
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we’re talking about the film John Latsch: The Man and His River, produced by Mary Farrell and written by Frances Edstro...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 32:31
'80's Crack Crisis and Peat
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: What We Learned From the Crack Crisis in America. Topic 2: The Future is Peat

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KQRU FM LP, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 51:38
  • Purchases: 4
Wizards & Critters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When it’s Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody’s just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please m...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 20-10: Jazzing The Cool With Ted Gioia, 3/2/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Ted Gioia, author of book The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, (who's also the author of The History of Jazz and West Coast Jazz), joins us on this e...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Mountains and Mining (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a n...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXCV, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
Mountains and Mining (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a n...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moonshine and Prohibition (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-South Carolina banned the sale of alcohol in 1915. But the state itself had established its own dispensary system more than a decade earlier. -Moo...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9
Early Spring
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Dispossessed, Chapter 10; Wolftown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 26:43
The Dispossessed, Part 7; The Mountain People, Chapter 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Ida Valley, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
The Dispossessed, Part 6; The Mountain People, Chapter 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Katrina Powell, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Just as the red wolves were dispossessed of their homes so too were the people who had inhabited the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for many gene...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 25:06