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Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, Royalton Community Radio, and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, WMUU-LP, KEDT and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Abolishing the Death Penalty (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, KMUN, Harford Community Radio, WJCT and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Abolishing the Death Penalty (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
The Suffragist Playbook (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Suffragist Playbook (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by WTJU, WMMT, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Suffragist Playbook (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WJCT and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Suffragist Playbook (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Miss C.H. Lippincott: Seedswoman of Minneapolis
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: C.H. Lippincott Seed Catalogue, Credit: Image Courtesy of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
In 1886, no one expected much from Carrie H. Lippincott. She was a single woman in desperate need of money when she launched what would become one ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Julia Sweig, LADY BIRD JOHNSON & Michael Klare on the Pentagon, China and Climate
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Julia Sweig about her acclaimed book, Lady Bird Johnson: In Plain Sight. Then, after exiting Afghanistan, President Biden is turning ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:29
World in Progress 09/02/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: “What's the Alternative?” African Women leaders - Women across Africa shape protest movements and stand up for their righ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 165: Unfit
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
177: Knocker Uppers
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Stop laughing Americans, it's not what you think. Starting with the industrial revolution in the UK, people were employed as human alarm clocks, wa...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Robin Wall Kimmerer and Mary Doria Russell
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Robin Wall Kimmerer ("Braiding Sweetgrass") and Mary Doria Russell ("The Women of the Copper Country").

Bought by WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Rochelle Riley and Chris Bohjalian
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Rochelle Riley and Chris Bohjalian.

Bought by WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Poet Elizabeth Alexander
From: New Letters on the Air
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Obama's 2009 Presidential Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander captures African-American voices and traditions from slavery to the present in her boo...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Privacy: Roe v Wade
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The controversial case you think you know.

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:53
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Privacy: Griswold v Connecticut
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The case that kicked the government out of our bedrooms.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:53
Judy Batalion, THE LIGHT OF DAYS & Lissa Evans, V FOR VICTORY
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Judy Batalion about her book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. Then, another WWI...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:51
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
Booktalk: Novelist Flynn Berry’s “Northern Spy”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Flynn Berry’s third thriller, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, is “Northern Spy.” It's a thriller about the contemporary IRA, and two sisters who find the...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 09:56
What’s On The Inside Counts: A Look Into The World Of Intimate Apparel
From: WUNC
Caption: The lingerie industry encompasses everything from bras to slips, underwear to loungewear...and has a long, fascinating history., Credit: Emms x/Flickr
The world of lingerie is as varied and interesting as any other realm of fashion ... and can be an opportunity for playfulness and exploration as w...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 53:24
The Paranormal Cafe featuring Kat Sarro
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: The Paranormal Cafe
Caption: Philadelphia Haunts by Katharine Sarro, Credit: Schiffer
Kat Sarro visits The Paranormal Cafe to discuss her book, 'Philadelphia Haunts: Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, and other Ghostly Sites'....

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 57:01
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
Weddings - recorded 6/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational panel discusses weddings

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:17

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