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Entangling Alliances (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions between the United States and Russia very nearly led to nuclear disaster.

Bought by KYUK, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Entangling Alliances (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions between the United States and Russia very nearly led to nuclear disaster.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
International Cities of Peace, and more
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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This time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, a three-part program about nonviolence and solidarity across international borders. We explore the question: “How ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
José Martí and Cuban-Mindedness
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Por América [José Martí], Juan Francisco Elso, 1986, From the collection of: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Philosopher, Poet, and Revolutionary, Jose Marti, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Parallels: Zhang Taiyan and Anti-Imperialism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Zhang Taiyan
Our show is on the Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhang Taiyan with guest Viren Murthy. In it we seek to detail the tangle of the so-called East a...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
REPLAY Music and Democracy (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The evolution of social change in America can be traced through popular songs by the likes of Nat King Cole, Percy Mayfield, Lena Horne, and the Im...

Bought by WCNY, Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
REPLAY Music and Democracy (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The evolution of social change in America can be traced through popular songs by the likes of Nat King Cole, Percy Mayfield, Lena Horne, and the Im...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
REPLAY Music and Democracy (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The evolution of social change in America can be traced through popular songs by the likes of Nat King Cole, Percy Mayfield, Lena Horne, and the Im...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WEHC 90.7FM, WJCT, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
REPLAY Music and Democracy (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The evolution of social change in America can be traced through popular songs by the likes of Nat King Cole, Percy Mayfield, Lena Horne, and the Im...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, and WUGA (part of GPB)


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: The Human Factor
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin examines the involvement of US negotiators in Middle East peace talks in the 1990s with The Human Factor.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Paranormal Cafe with Dr. Bob Curran & The Green Man
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Walking with the Green Man, Credit: Career Press
Dr. Bob Curran joins us from Ireland to discuss the legend of the Green Man. The Green Man turns up in many cultures, from the same eras, around th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 57:24
  • Purchases: 1
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
Protecting Human Rights (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WCNY, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 10
Protecting Human Rights (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Protecting Human Rights (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by WCPN, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Protecting Human Rights (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
EE 21-14: A Mountain Goat A Sufi Sheikh And A Christian Monk: Origin Stories Of Coffee, 4/2/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The story of Kaldi the goat herder discovering coffee by accident is a common tale. Religious studies scholar Jamel Velji explores a few more origi...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 54:01
569: Decolonizing the Mind / 570: Religion Without Doctrine, 3/20/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
2020-11-22 Spinoza
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Baruch Spinoza one of the most influential and beguiling thinkers of all time?

Bought by KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
2020-11-08 Camus and the Absurd
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is life just like a rock you keep pushing up a hill so it won't roll back over you?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Islamic Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
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Astronomy, mathematics, linguistics, politics, justice, and the state -- the heritage of the West, given to Christianity by Islam.

Bought by KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, and WNYO


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Presidential Leadership (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency marked the beginning of United States imperialism. Matt Oyos explains how Roosevelt modernized the military to bols...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WCNY, KXCV, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 16
Presidential Leadership (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency marked the beginning of United States imperialism. Matt Oyos explains how Roosevelt modernized the military to bols...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9