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Women's History Month- Andrea J. Ritchie: Emergent Strategies for Abolition Toolkit (3/13/24 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Documenting an Invisible Island
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
City Creek At Folsom Trail
From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water
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In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 08:31
Sandcastles
From: Adriana Cargill
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Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 3
Bernard Offen – "Surviving the Holocaust"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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My Hometown Concentration Camp Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
EXP 23-11 C: Mozart & Haydn String Quartets, Episode 3, 12/14/2022
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
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Mozart’s six “Haydn” Quartets were dedicated and lovingly handed to Joseph Haydn, like a father entrusting his sons to a friend to protect and guid...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Our Ecosystems of Healing: Take Back The Night With Talyor Laur
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Our Ecosystems of Healing: Take Back The Night With Talyor Laur

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
A New Day for Public Television?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It’s a new day, and the nation’s most trusted media institution has some new direction. Sylvia Bugg was named the Chief Programming Executive and G...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jewish Blues Part 1
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
"Sounds Jewish" begins a two-program series on Jewish blues -- the music, not the zeitgeist -- with songs in a variety of styles and languages.

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Transportation Is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. transportation system has long been rife with inequality, making it more difficult for low-income people, people of color, and people with...

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
EP156 From Hill Country to Mississippi Delta Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Super Chikin' and Terry "Harmonica" Bean from Mississippi

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
Marching Onward
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 115: Please Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Seventeen more tracks from the archives of Dollar Country

Bought by KSTK, KIYU-FM, KSTK, and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 4
A Moment in Clarice Assad's "Slow Waltz"
From: Will Duchon
Series: Musical Moments
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An ecstatic moment in "Slow Waltz", the third movement of Clarice Assad's suite "Impressions" (2008).

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 08:33
A Moment from Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2
From: Will Duchon
Series: Musical Moments
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Two magical measures from the 3rd movement of Brahms' Op. 83 piano concerto.

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 10:03
1930: Writing in the Past & Deconstructing Nora Ephron, 7/25/2019
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s On Story we’ll speak with the writers behind Mad Men, Westworld, and 11.22.63 to explore audiences fascination with film and televis...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
Tom Sancton: Family Man
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Tom Sancton
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 52:00
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 2 | The Red Man Was Pressed
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: The Apache Reaper, Credit: Edward Curtis
How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppressi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
PE 1640
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here

Bought by KKRN, KHNS, KRZA, KSRQ, KWMR and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
SITPE # 1627
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Hendrix/1967/Listener feedback/More listener feedback/It's all in your mind

Bought by WLPR , KKRN, WXXI Rochester, KCMJ Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1523 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/07/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Directed intensity from Buddy Rich sounds more like a lift than a jolt, but Horace Silver's loping tempo tells the truth. Mongo Santamaria's Afro-C...

Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Magical Realism
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:52
A Room of One's Own
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
Allan Wolper talks with Frank Casey
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:08