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Caption: Katya Cengel
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Journalist and activist Ann Northrop, Credit: Bill Bahlman
This week on OutCasting, public radio’s LGBTQ youth program, we continue our conversation with Ann Northrop, a longtime journalist and activist, ab...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sherry Ladig, Credit:  Karyn Wrenshall
Sherry Ladig is a keyboardist and singer who performs and composes in many traditions. Her musical breadth comes from two sources. One is that she ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 16:00
Caption: Professor Serhii Plokhy
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.

Bought by WUAL and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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After his father died, 17-year-old Jack Blackwell joined his grandfather, Alec Boostrom, on his trapline here in northern Minnesota's canoe country...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 32:06
Caption: Jerry Torre
There’s been a documentary, a Broadway musical, an HBO movie, and a memoir. The documentary, produced 40-years ago, is a cult classic, and has heav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
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Ms. Booth talks to students about her aviation-filled family history.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 05:39
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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
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Shirley and Sharon sit down and chat with Carrie Tabor.

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 37:48
Caption: Dr. Brian Keating
Astrophysicist Brian Keating discusses his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor."

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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
Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 7 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:47
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:13
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 5 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 21:45
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 4 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 24:52
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 11:47
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 2 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, some series-excl...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 15:18
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 1 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 13:31
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Kate Magruder, who portrays Louise Smith Clapp, who, under the pen name Dame Shirley, documented Califor...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:02
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Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2