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Time to 1.5 | 9 | Prayers of Steel II
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is one of the most u...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 46:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
Time to 1.5 | 2 | This Most Excellent Canopy
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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There are quite a few things working against us when it comes to understanding how urgently we need to act on climate change. But there's also the ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 38:43
What Fire Reveals: Stories from the CZU Lightning Complex Fire
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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On August 16, 2020, some 12,000 lightning strikes exploded across northern California, igniting more than 585 wildfires. In the Santa Cruz Mountain...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 33:41
  • Purchases: 2
The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 70
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From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
5 : BiRDS
From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY
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Stories from Spoon about birds in prison. Matthew visits a bird rehab facility and meets a lead poisoned swan and a duck that was sent in the mail.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
2 : PAWS FOR LiFE
From: matthew schneeman
Series: AT NiGHT I FLY
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Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
Emergency Response
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Corona Virus Kit
A full hour of viral containment, mixed with your safety in mind, available for private home enjoyment. Featuring the latest response to our curre...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 1
A Shortcut Through 2019
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Greta Thunberg
An emotional retrospective of the past twelve months, featuring the major events, the culture, the climate, and the politics, dramatically mixed wi...

Bought by KSFR, KVSC, KMSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KVMR and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 11
EP 4 — The Solidarity Economy
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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A documentary that explores a phenomenon known as the Solidarity Economy, including voices from all over the world involved in different movements ...

Bought by KUNM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
EP 2.3 — Welcome to Frome: A New Cultural Vision
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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Part 3 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 72: Bears, Birds, and Bones
From: Criminal
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As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of the dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds Natio...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Frozen Piano Listening to Itself
From: David Merleau
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A Piano stands on a frozen lake in Northern Ontario. Steel wire connects its soundboard to an old camper two hundred feet away. Aeolian tones (.....

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:13
Struck By Lightning
From: Outside Magazine
Series: Outside Podcast
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Science doesn't understand lightning very well—or how a strike affects the human body. Survivors sometimes claim to have super-senses, or special p...

Bought by KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KPIK-LP, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 41:33
  • Purchases: 9
It's All About Lucy
From: Nate Hegyi
Caption: UM doctoral student Wylie Carr is part of a research team collecting public opinion on the controversial idea of climate engineering. His travels have taken him to Kenya, the Solomon Islands and the northernmost point in Alaska., Credit: Catherine L. Waters
Wylie Carr studies climate engineering - a 'Plan B' for global warming. The idea terrifies him. Someday, however, his daughter may need to decide w...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
A Shortcut through 2012: Tributes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Russell Means
Additional tribute mix of more incredible people who left us in 2012--legacies that will continue to inspire...part two of A Shortcut through 2012

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:26
All Mixed Up-Stormy Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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This special program was produced during Hurricane Sandy's collision with the east coast, in my studio on the upper west side which luckily had po...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:47
U Pick Blueberries
From: Marianne Gardner
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A community of pickers tell the story of this u pick blueberry patch.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Opal Whiteley, Credit: Cottage Grove Historical Society
"Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley," a half-hour documentary about Opal Whiteley who caused an international scandal in 1920 whe...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Prairie Public, KSUT and more


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 10
Bridges over troubled waters (4:50 edit)
From: John Ryan
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Winner, 2007 PRNDI award for Best News Series

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Dying for Water: Indians, Politics and Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin
From: Rhoby Cook
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A Native radio documentary on the impact and aftermath of the 2002 Klamath River fish kill.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3