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Audacious Live! Show & Tell in Stamford
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode, Audacious takes the show to Third Place by Half Full Brewery in Stamford! Hear stories about special doilies, passports, and even ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Interview with Author William Yeske
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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“DAMN THE VALLEY” , wriitten by Wiilliam Yeske was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valle...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 14:44
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Millennial History
From: Andrea Voets
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In Millennial History, we relive recent history through the eyes of millennials who were there when it happened. The murder of anti-mafia judge Fal...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:39:06
Paul M. Lisnik– "Juries: Fair or Corruptible"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Hidden Jury, and Other Tactics Lawyers Use to Win What happens when a guilty person is acquitted of crime? Or worse, when an innocent person i...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Willie Nelson - Me & Paul
From: Joyride Media
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The history of Willie Nelson and Paul English - the untold stories of a fabled friendship between a singer and his drummer. Inspired by Willie Nel...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KUT, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of the Partnership between Jules' Bistro and Anna Marie's Alliance in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack speaks with Anna Marie’s Alliance Executive Director C...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Teaching Anne Frank
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An expert panel discusses the impact the Diary of Anne Frank continues to have on generations born long after her death. Among the panelists is Ron...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:29:38
StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.
Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Phillip Lazowski and Ruth Lazowski
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.
Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Annie Barrows
From: New Letters on the Air
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Next time on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, hear Annie Barrows, the co-author of the international best seller and book club favorite, THE GUERNSEY LITERA...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 172: Roselle and Michael
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that somethi...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 32:23
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we look...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 34:47
Episode 165: Unfit
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
Korematsu v United States & Japanese American Internment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WCMU Michigan, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 14
StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
575: Living With Loneliness / 576: Who's Watching Us?, 4/10/2021
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: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
StoryCorps: Dorlie Fong
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In the late 1930’s, dancer Dorothy Toy debuted on Broadway with her partner Paul Wing. It capped years of hard work on the Vaudeville circuit and l...

Bought by KALW and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: The Music and Philanthropy of Harry Chapin- Single Hour Version
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Single hour version of a program spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks abo...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
563: Going Underground / 564: New Voices in Native American Writing, 2/27/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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