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HOUR ONE: "Building Twisted Worlds" - What’s scary today isn’t haunted mansions but haunted… tape decks? Cassette recorders? HR manuals? We'll intr...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized?" - Psychedelics are a multi-billion dollar industry. But many come from plant medicines first...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Being Body Conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
A piercing look at the journey to justice.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCHW and more
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 36
- Added: Aug 27, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 21
HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...
- Added: Aug 11, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Author Michael Schumacher talks about his new book "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale"
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 09:29
Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific...
- Added: Aug 04, 2023
- Length: 59:23
Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
Disability justice activists Anita Cameron & Keith Jones join Laura Flanders to discuss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What are the suc...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, RadioStPete Florida, and KWMR
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: May 24, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with members of the Civil War Roundtable group t...
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 29:55
It’s a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldi...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Patti McCracken is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and many oth...
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 24:20
We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
