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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...
Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more
- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 58
An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 21:47
A book about the French Revolution. OK, you may be thinking, there’s nothing new to learn, however, not only has new revelations come to light in t...
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "What Can We Learn ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
"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...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A second look at artists born in December who play bluegrass, jazz or that beguiling sonic continuum in between...
- Added: Dec 16, 2019
- Length: 01:57:40
Anne’s whisper became a long silk thread, spun around a butterfly. Caterpillar all too eager to wrap it from inside its body around like a cocoon....
- Added: Dec 05, 2019
- Length: 11:08
For a growing number of Americans, our current political realities are of increasing concern. Many are deeply puzzled about what we do in the near ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"
- Added: Dec 02, 2019
- Length: 30:01
There are fakes all around us. No, this isn’t about “fake news.” In fact, the overuse of that term as given real fakes a bad name. That’s right. We...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...
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- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Rituals Of Fear" - The dread, the fear, the horror of it all. Maybe it's good for you? This hour, why we need Halloween. HOUR TWO: "Ev...
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
In 1965, two intellectuals met at Cambridge University for a debate. The topic: “The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” The r...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...
Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more
- Added: Sep 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
HOUR ONE: "Is Anger A Useful Emotion?" - What if being angry made you feel better? We'll see red this hour. HOUR TWO: "Our Invisible Universe" - ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2019
- Length: 01:58:59
They are an unexpected husband and wife team: the Levinson’s. Sanford is a constitutional scholar. Cynthia is an award-winning author of children’...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bob Kustra interviews Pam Jenoff about her latest novel "The Lost Girls of Paris"
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 29:46
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....
- Added: Jul 19, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...
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- Added: Jul 18, 2019
- Length: 52:58
- Purchases: 2
In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 01:31:39
Woodstock - the Summer of 1969
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 03:53
