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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22
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
Airborne Hero
From: Kathleen Polanco
Caption: U.S. Military service members are represented by white headstones for the men that lost their lives during World War II at the American Cemetery, Normandy, France; June 2, 2015. This is the 71st Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy remembering th, Credit: (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Berner/Released)
A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, one of the most highly decorated divisions in the U.S. Army, didn’t understand what it meant to be air...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KRZA, KYUK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 7
W.S. Merwin: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 2
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
Poet and MacArthur "Genius" Edward Hirsch
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Miriam Pratt and Jean Soliz
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1969, Civil Rights leader Edwin Pratt was assassinated in his own home with his wife and daughter, Miriam, present. Miriam Pratt and her godmoth...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:37
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
National Writers Series: John U. Bacon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Love and Samosas: How a Massachusetts town backed a local general store owner
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Storefront of Sangar General Store, Credit: http://musingsinmass.blogspot.com
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
As the Denver Post declines, so does the Colorado News Market
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Cover of Denver Post Editorial Page on April 7th, 2018, Credit: Chicago Tribune
A look into the fall of the Denver Post, the impact it's had on the Colorado News Market and the future of reporting in the state.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 13:16
The Big Pond #01: The Things We Brought
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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​There are things that hold history for each of us – a stitch, a book, a hat – things that we carry around for our whole lives. In this episode, we...

Bought by KSFR and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 2
MIDNIGHT IN THE ASYLUM CEMETERY
From: Diane Ladley
Series: Hist-eerie
Caption: Image is an actual photo taken by a ghost tour guest inside the asylum cemetery. Could this be the infamous "Gassy Ghost"?
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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In the first episode of The Response, we ask the question: how do communities come together in the aftermath of disasters—often in the face of ina...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#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
Episode 93: Lavender Scare
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 24:39
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
Hindsight is 20/20
From: Stephen Grant
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Greg Pierotti and members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project spent months in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming conducting interviews with...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 26:08
  • Purchases: 1
I Was Boston
From: Otis Gray
Caption: Keven Joyce, umpiring a JV baseball game in Plymouth, Credit: Otis Gray
50 years after the infamous Battle of Hue, a Vietnam vet talks about living with memories you have no choice but to carry.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:34
  • 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
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Darryl Cherney, the Earth First! activist who along with Judi Bari, was car bombed in Oakland, Californi...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Myles Spencer-Watson and Charisse Spencer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Atilano Bernardo David, WWII Veteran on Resilience
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Atilano Bernardo David, Credit: Alden Bruce
A short Memorial Day affirmation from WWII veteran, Atilano Bernardo David, describes shares his wisdom on resilience after surviving war and the B...

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:51
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
PIO 18-16 The Sealed Angel
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Oregon Repertory Singers perform Rodion Shchedrin's The Sealed Angel

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


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5

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