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Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
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
S2 E5 Welcome To Vietnam
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 35:44
Beth Macy, author of "Truevine"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy about her bestseller about two brothers, a kidnapping and a mother's quest.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
Monacan Voices Promo #1
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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:30 Promo for the full length program

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: :30
Author Bill Natale on His New Book and Race Relations in Chicago
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
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Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 47:02
What the Truth Costs: An Advanced Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Afrika Bambaataa: Renegade of Funk
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Musician and legendary innovator, Afrika Bambaataa, discusses the origin and legacy of hip-hop. [13:35]

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 113: Outsiders
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: Judith Gardner reads on Tales from the South
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Na'alehu Anthony
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Na'alehu Anthony discusses his documentary about traditional Polynesian open sea canoeing and its significance to the revitalization of Hawaiian cu...

Bought by KZYX and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 6
A Conversation with Sean Wilentz about Bob Dylan, Part Two
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Part two of our conversation with Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America.

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 3
Germany After World War II
From: With Good Reason
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New research examines how postwar German history textbooks addressed the traumatic events of the Second World War.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, and WRPI


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mining's Toxic Legacy
From: KVMR
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Historic Legislative Hearing on the Toxic Legacy of the Gold Rush

  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 13:50
Tejidos Culturales #7: Who Chained the Road up, y quien es Jack Taylor?
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this program we look at the closing off of a Land Grant easment by Jack Taylor, the decision in this will set precedent for land rights all over...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Stories from the NYPD
From: jrudolph group
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An audio history of the New York Police Department

Bought by WNYC, WFUV, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WGBH Radio Boston, and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 25, 2006
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 5
The Moon's Sister
From: KUHB
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Native Youth tell the story of their recent origins

Bought by KSUT and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2006
  • Length: 23:29
  • Purchases: 2
Hollister
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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On July 4, 1947 thousands of bikers roared into a small California town and changed our assumptions about America. A new investigation raises prov...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRPI, KUT, PRX Remix, KALW and more


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7