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Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
168: The 442nd Infantry
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Once again we dive into a piece of history that should be explored in schools. Thousands of American born Japanese defied prejudice and hate to fig...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 12, 202
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: How to Stop Massive Tax Avoidance by America’s Wealthiest; Rise in Violenc...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
White Trash Remix
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Isenberg’s 2016 book dissects the stereotype “white trash” by discovering its inherited roots in the nation’s class-oriented founders - really, sim...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Gandhi at 150
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most original, impactful, and complex figures of the 20th century. Revered around the world for his activism, self-s...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:27:39
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the radical and revolutionary Republican Thaddeus Stevens. While Lincoln continually capitulated to white interests in the North ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Writing Radicals: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Pandemic Economics: Robert Reich, Esteban Kelly, Mary Kay Henry, Stephanie Kelton
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #6: The Flag
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
UBI and Utopia: Part Two of The Automation Ruse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is economic historian Aaron Benanav, and our show is about automation and the future of work where the road to Utopia (yellow brick and o...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
St. Louis: Patterns of Segregation and Alibis for Abandonment
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mill Creek Valley (St. Louis) circa 1948
Part Two of our conversation with Walter Johnson about his must-read book The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the Uni...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
St. Louis: Gateway to Genocide
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s guest is Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. St. Louis turns out...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
WRM33 - Will on Politicians
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers often showed respect to the men and women in politics he poked fun at

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Bob Giles
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Cynthia Canty talks with journalist Bob Giles, author of "When Truth Mattered."

Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WNMU-FM, and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Concentrating Caliban: A Fund Drive Anthology
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Garrick Palmer. 'Benito Cereno,' Pencil signed proof; 1970.
Today, Interchange shared segments from three episodes that aired throughout the year – they all three touched on aspects of our current moment wit...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1

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