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Reconciling John Muir, Racial Politics and the Restoration of Indigenous Lands in Yosemite
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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A look at the legacy of John Muir, his actions in Yosemite, and the impacts on the Indigenous people in the area.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's episode anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise examines the concept of Whiteness and what he describes as the psychological wage of wh...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
Ed Stone and Forty Years of Voyager in Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Voyager image of Jupiter's moon Io taken as the volcano called Loki erupted., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
It is most space fans’ favorite planetary science mission, and with good reason. We visit with the man who has been in charge of Voyager mission sc...

Bought by WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Episode Four: "The Race Beat"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Episode Three: "Stories Someone Told Me"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
Episode Two: "The Small Town through the Literary Lens"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Spies of Mississippi
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Nazis in Space? Rod Pyle’s Amazing Stories of the Space Age
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Declassified artist's concept of the 1960s Manned Orbiting Laboratory, Credit: National Reconnaissance Office
Rod Pyle reveals bizarre yet fascinating space projects of the past in his new book. Pyle also exposes previously classified information about mis...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Histories of Resistance in Ohio’s Prisons
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story of Si...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:54
Sekou Kambui
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:57
Allan Wolper talk with Martin Garbus
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Martin Garbus is one of America's fiercest fighters for free speech. He has represented some of the most prominent names in culture media and polit...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Allan Wolper talks with Frank Casey
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
Culturology: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, MN
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Ham the astrochimp and the LHC keeps going
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Ham at work, Credit: Nasa
It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:10
  • Purchases: 1
Artifact Protection
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi official displays a recovered stolen artifact., Credit: Associated Press
From Guarding Heritage, March 19, 2010: War News Radio reports on a partnership between the military and archaeological experts that works to prote...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Mar 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Earhart - Chopper Chick
From: BBC Americana
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How about a flight with Amelia Earhart? Only this distant relative has no record of crashing - this Amelia Earhart sticks to reporting the traffic ...

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 2
A T-Rex Named Sue
From: Kara Sautter
Caption: Sue at the Stearns County History Museum, Credit: Minnesot Public Radio
A cast of the largest and most complete T-Rex ever found has traveled to the Stearns County History Museum in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:22