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Take Me Out to the Ballgame (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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“Take Me Out To The Ball Game” is the most popular song in American sports, but did you know that the woman who inspired its creation was a feminis...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WYAP, KMUN, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Take Me Out to the Ballgame (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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“Take Me Out To The Ball Game” is the most popular song in American sports, but did you know that the woman who inspired its creation was a feminis...

Bought by WCPN, WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, Troy Public Radio, KXCV and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 6
Forms of Concentration: Constructing Racialized Bodies
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
International Nurses Day
From: Levingston Lewis
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Ears Adrift speaks with Navy Nurses that are deployed on the USNS Comfort .

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 09:10
Pandemic Special Episode: Voices From Around The World
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We talk with people in six different countries, learning how they're coping during the pandemic, and learning about their hopes for the future.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 48:16
  • Purchases: 2
Presenting: Overcoming Extremism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This week we’re sharing a new podcast series called "Overcoming Extremism" produced by the Anti-Defamation League and hosted by former Charlottesvi...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Presenting: Overcoming Extremism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This week we’re sharing a new podcast series called "Overcoming Extremism" produced by the Anti-Defamation League and hosted by former Charlottesvi...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Presenting: Overcoming Extremism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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This week we’re sharing a new podcast series called "Overcoming Extremism" produced by the Anti-Defamation League and hosted by former Charlottesvi...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Preserving Cultural Heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic community and Ecuador’s Huaorani people
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Hasidic men at Western Wall, Credit: courtesy of Pixabay
Join World Footprints as we learn about the cultural heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods and Ecuador’s Huaorani people.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 43:17
20-10 Musical Revisions Through Time: Narvaez, Weiss, Sor, Ponce, Warlock, Beatles
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Roland Dyens, Credit: Roland Dyens
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features musical revisions: works by one composer than have been changed, adapted, completed, or rev...

Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, KWAX, RadioFreePalmer, WHQR and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 52
Museums, Life After Manzanar
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Museums are returning artifacts to their countries of origin, but maybe they shouldn't. Topic 2: California apologizes for helping with th...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 48:24
I Spy: Real Life Spy Stories
From: Rob Sachs
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
Lenny At The Gate
From: Israel Story
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What happens when an internationally renowned artist stands in front of their inspiring muse? In 1957, Leonard Bernstein travelled to Israel to see...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 11:03
Operation Hulda
From: Israel Story
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In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 41:32
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 314: Company Rule
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy and William Dalrymple
How did just a few thousand British control the country of India?

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
The Transformative Act of Sharing and the ZAD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Communal Luxury author Kristin Ross talks about how distinct and often contrary modes of activism can operate together to compose a new form of sol...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 58:39
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Paula McLain
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Paula McLain talks with Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
From: Arndt Peltner
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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
The Big Pond #50: Showing Our Colors
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 2
Music of the German immigrants
From: Arndt Peltner
Series: Wunderbar Together
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The music of the immigrants from the German speaking countries and their influence on American music

  • Added: Oct 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:28
Traveling Route 66 and Crossing Europe in an RV
From: World Footprints LLC
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As we travel through Iceland you will hear about America’s historic Route 66 with Route Magazine editor, Brennan Matthews and Kat Bird of the Wande...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 13:32
  • Purchases: 2
Eight Days a Week
From: Israel Story
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Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 19:16
  • Purchases: 1

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