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Pilgrimage (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WFHB, WNMU-FM, KMUN, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
AN OUTRAGE: REFLECTIONS ON RACISM, PAST & PRESENT (HALF)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-“An Outrage’ is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. From the end of the Civil War well into the middle of the twentieth centu...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
18-29 When Politics and Music Collide! Music from Elizabeth's England, Franco's Spain, Castro's Cuba/Interviews: Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing a lute
Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife ...

Bought by KXIQ , KGHI, KTXK, WICR, WETS and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 40
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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
Bo Ambrozewicz
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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He's running for El Dorado County Supervisor, District 4 (so say goodbye to the incumbent while you can)...

  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:50:30
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Victoria & Abdul
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Nerva, Sonic Weapons and Doom's Day
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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For the first time in history, the Roman Senate elects an emperor... sonic weapons attack an American embassy and doom's day is this Saturday!

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:28:52
911 and more Lizzy
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:20:37
What is Western Civilization Coming To?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Trump defended it... Obama derided it and the Pope wants to dictate it...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:23:52
Land of the Lost and Tales of Topographic Oceans
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:09
Planet P
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
Washington Surrendered and Lincoln Didn't
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:17:14
A Shortcut Back to 1967-The Summer of Love
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: George Harrison & Patti Boyd 1967
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Summer of Love as we travel back to 1967 with LBJ, Mick Jagger, Frank Zappa, Julie Christie, John Cage, Timot...

Bought by KRZA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 30:36
  • Purchases: 2
Becoming African in America: The Radical Politics of Fela Kuti
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is a special 90-minute show, live from The Atlas Bar, featuring the music and protest politics of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalis...

  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:32:39
March on Momument
From: Nicki Stein
Caption: Robert E. Lee Statue on Moument Avenue, Credit: Kelley Libby/Radio IQ
This past Saturday, over 1,000 Richmonders streamed down Monument Avenue in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, planned for this weeke...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:21
The Highland Rogue
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of one Rob Roy MacGregor...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:29:26
Young John Adams
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05
Election & Circumnavigation
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The first two-party debate of the 2016 presidential election; wreaking havoc in Africa and the Spanish Main, Sir Francis Drake disembarks at Plymou...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:22:44