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How a pair of courageous botanists became the first women to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Caption: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak tours Kolkata's Durga Puja with the widows of Vrindavan. , Credit: Sandip Roy
India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking David Foster Wallace" - David Foster Wallace was one of the most brilliant writers of his generation. But 15 years after his ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet - will be destroyed or irreparab...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Nevada Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Author and children's health expert Patti Wood talks about the challenges of raising a child in a world filled with chemical and other toxins.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Extreme heat kills more people per year than any other climate disaster. It preys on the poor, exacerbates racial inequalities, and there is a grow...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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Extreme heat kills more people per year than any other climate disaster. It preys on the poor, exacerbates racial inequalities, and there is a grow...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 57:27
Caption: David Mivasair canoes Cootes Paradise, Credit: David Kattenburg
The roots of the US anti-abortion movement — misogyny, racism and hatred of immigrants. On the edge of a big Canadian city, an oasis of calm where ...

  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:33
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Making the necessary changes to address climate disruption will take massive collective action. But sometimes, a single individual can make an extr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
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Making the necessary changes to address climate disruption will take massive collective action. But sometimes, a single individual can make an extr...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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We are now mid-May, half way through a month of graduations, spring celebrations and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this comi...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Texas Judge’s Ruling Banning Widely Used Abortion Drug Based on Ideology, ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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During this beautiful springtime, let us be enlightened by the strange koans of the Desert Fathers. These were the 5th Century CE monks who started...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Dave visits with world class mountain and ice climber and all around great Mom Majka Burhardt. Majka is the leader of Legado, an NGO devoted to ste...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller, based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and language, of wh...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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London, England-based author and landscape designer Kathryn Aalto discusses her book, "Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape...

Bought by KSJD, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WETS


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5