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The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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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...

Bought by KVSC, KRZA, and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Halcyon Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
The End of Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Kirchick
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An African-American and Latinx History of the United States: A Conversation with Paul Ortiz
From: John Shuck
Caption: Paul Ortiz
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Field of Blood
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Nicholas Morton
he year 1099 marked the Crusade’s final act … the conquest of Jerusalem. This deed has long been taken as proof of the crusaders’ anti-Islamic hatr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Russia's Anti-Revolution: 100 years after the Revolution (director's cut)
From: Hechtech
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark & Deborah Parker
When someone spends their time flattering their boss or superior, they’re known as a sycophant. It’s also called the “slime effect.” Although it wa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fault Lines in the Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Sanford Levinson
The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification in 1788. After all of this time, many Americans take the words of the consti...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Marceline Lasater - One Person, One Vote?
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Marceline Lasater, Attorney at Law, One person, One vote? A Texas attorney explains why, since 1911, our votes are no...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:31
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
The Despot's Accomplice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Klaas
By all appearances, the world is becoming less democratic.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Matters: The Civil Rights Era in Living Memory
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
This piece features the voices of black Americans who came of age during the civil rights era: an era that lives with a mix of pain and pride in th...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
GPV19 Book Review - Griftopia
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:18
GPV08 Book Review - The Prague Cemetery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
296-Tilted History
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Where you are from and where you live has been influenced by changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation relative to its orbit around the Sun.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Over Here, Over There: Veterans and early Americans in their own words
From: Kettle Falls Media
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This presentation is a collaboration between radio dramatists in three states, and students in New York and Texas. "Over Here, Over There" adapts o...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 01:40:04
  • Purchases: 1
Jacob S. Hacker discusses "American Amnesia"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Jacob Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Matters: Stereotype Threat
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Emmett Till and mother Mamie
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
Mary 4 Martha 3 NO Footnotes: a play by Cate Belleveau
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Producer Tammy Bobrowsky talks with playwright, Cate Belleveau about her new play "Mary 4 Martha 3 NO Footnotes," and also two actors from the play...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 13:17
Monacan Voices Promo #2
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: :31
Anishinaabenaajimon: The Legacy of Oppression
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Anton Treuer co-founded Bemidji’s Truth and Reconciliation group. He’s been producing a series for Northern Community Radio called Anishinaabenaaji...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
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
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
What's Left of Liberal Zionism?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re looking at liberal Zionism, enduring a crisis after a brutal summer in Gaza. It’s prompted handwringing for American Jews and Israelis who ar...

Bought by WRPI, KZYX, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3