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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Today we're talking to one of the oldest glass artist in Ohio, Jack Schmidt. He received a B.S. degree from Bowling Green State University at a tim...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 06:08
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
While we know all directors through their films, the remarkable Indian director Satyajit Ray left so much more… on paper.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Producer Alex van Oss ponders the external, internal, and eternal meanings of buildings in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. The result is a perso...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'Going Underground' - Scientists and explorers have found a whole new world under our feet. It's an exciting place, and it's changing wha...
- Added: Feb 26, 2021
- Length: 01:58:58
Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 03:00
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 05:20
Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 32:46
- Purchases: 1
To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...
Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 12:56
- Purchases: 2
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gi...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 04:00
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 04:00
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 17:05
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 05:18
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
The latest:
"It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
In which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation we need right now: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the "Conscious Life" expo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
