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A Salute In Song For Memorial Day
From: Charlie Warren
Caption: World War II graves at Arlington National Cemetary, Credit: L. Sponsler
An objective, entertaining, and respectful music/sound chronicle of America’s war history starting with the Civil War, which spurred the eventual c...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Morehead State Public Radio, KTNA, Wyoming Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:55:18
  • Purchases: 79
A Shortcut Through 2023
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: GW Bridge June 2023
A retrospective of the entire year, including the major political, cultural and emotional events, with music and celebrations of those who've left ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSRQ, WJCT, KMSU, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 6
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
All Mixed Up:Tributes & Celebrations
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Black Power, Credit: Bill Russell RIP
A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:07
Time to 1.5 | 9 | Prayers of Steel II
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is one of the most u...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 46:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
Standing With Ukraine
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Standing With Ukraine!, Credit: Shepard Fairey
As Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts an unjustified invasion and starts his own war, We Stand with Ukraine- mixing reactions from around th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
A Shortcut 2021 Tribute Mix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Betty White
An extra hour of celebration of those who've left us this year, with music and events that broke too late to be included in A Shortcut Through 2021

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Marking 100 years with Celebration and Reflection at Ingebretsen's
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Ingebretsen's Scandanavian Gifts, Credit: Britta Greene
It’s the busiest time of the year at Ingebretson’s, a Scandanavian market and gift shop on Lake Street in Minneapolis. As Ingebretson’s marks its 1...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Snap Classic : The Iron Curtain, 5/28/2020
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: The Iron Curtain, Credit: Teo Ducot
At the height of the Cold War, Ulrike Poppe just might have been the most surveilled woman in the world. But it was only after the wall fell that t...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
This Wall Is My Wall
From: Israel Story
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In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 47:26
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
From: Arndt Peltner
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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
Tall Tales & Stories
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: We're Better Than This...
Heading into unknown territory with Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Robert Forster, Pam Grier, Christopher Walken, Sam Elliot, Timothy Olyphant, Keith Car...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:52
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 2
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 44:34
All Mixed Up-American Dream
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Approaching America , Credit: 1905
From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
#18-34 Schubert Farewell 1
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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This week on Played in Oregon the Schubert Ensemble plays the piano Quintet by Antonin Dvorak.

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Honor Flight: Recognizing our War Heroes
From: Stephen Grant
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Most World War II veterans didn’t receive accolades or experience the infamous New York City ticker-tape parade most Americans are familiar with in...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00