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Disclose! Divest!: Behind the Fight Over College Endowments
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A child running through the Stanford Divestment Encampment., Credit: Photo by RJ Lozada.
What does it mean to disclose and divest? We take a look at the demands behind the student encampments for Palestine and talk to Kelly Grotke about...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Incarceration, FBI and MLK, America’s Poverty Food Crisis
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A new book details the financial, emotional, and social strain of incarceration on prisoners and the family members trying to care for the...

Bought by KSTK, KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, KTNA and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 51:45
  • Purchases: 6
Top of Mind - The Agitators, GPS and Memory
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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The Agitators, GPS and Memory

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KTNA, GCR (Global Community Radio), Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Is the United Nations Still Relevant?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We look at the UN’s achievements, its shortcomings and what the future holds for international cooperation.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Epidemics Change History
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
The History, Role, & Significance of the U.S. Post Office
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Headshot: Richard R. John
In this episode, we talk about the post office with Dr. Richard R. John, Professor of History & Communications in the Columbia Journalism School at...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Marc C. Johnson, author of "Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Burton K. Wheeler"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra talks with Marc C. Johnson about his book "Political Hell-Raiser"

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Randall Fuller, author of "The Book That Changed America"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Randall Fuller who's written an historical take on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution ignited leaders and thinkers in the US in...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 83: 21st Century Safety Net
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Social security, health insurance, and unemployment insurance help Americans through life’s ups and downs. Benjamin Veghte explains the benefits an...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 24:39
The Intimate Bond -- Groks Science Show 2016-01-20
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Brian Fagan discusses how animals have shaped our history and how our conception of them has changed over time.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 22:57
  • Purchases: 3
Ellis Island:  Those Who Arrived There, Why, and What Was it Like?
From: Barry Vogel
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about Ellis Island, it's history and the people who arrived there, with Andrew Weiss, a historian and then to...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
The Eruption that Changed the World -- Groks Science Show 2014-10-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Gillen D’Arcy Wood discusses the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Bought by WYAP, KPVL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 35:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Letter, A March, A Dream: 1963 Retold
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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50 years after the March on Washington, syndicated columnist Reverend Byron Williams makes the case that 1963 was the pivotal year for American cul...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
The Other 9/11: Part One
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in sevente...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sender -- Groks Science Show 2013-06-05
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ken Weiss discussed the controversy surrounding the Yanomami blood samples.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Down and Dirty Justice
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
Funding For The Arts in Minnesota
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on Don't Cha Know we discuss a topic that is very much at the forefront these days. Funding for the arts in Minnesota. It's a panel discussio...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 01:07:25
The State of Latino's in Minnesota with Jesse Bethke Gomez, Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Latinos have been living in Minnesota for generations. The first record of Latino residents date back to the 1860's. Since the 1990 Census, the sta...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 30:54
  • Purchases: 1