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A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2
Generation AIDS: Minnesota's HIV/AIDS Crisis
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes, 1980., Credit: Alan Lessik
In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:31:39
Episode 27 - Summer of '69 - We are Stardust
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Woodstock - the Summer of 1969

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:53
Episode 26 - Summer of '69 - Who Are You?
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Charles Manson and the Tate Labianca murders in the summer of 1969

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:30
Episode 25 - Summer of '69 - I Know White People
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Muhammed Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the Armed Services

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
Episode 23 - Summer Of '69 - Chappaquiddick
From: David Grimes
Series: Into Each Life
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Ted Kennedy - The Summer of 1969

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 09:41
DC 1928
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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I hear my train a-comin' to take me cross the river to see the Ritual Fire Dance. Why? 'Cause its a Strange Universe.

Bought by KPRG, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), Southern Branch Bluegrass and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Art of Exposing Rape in America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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American artists such as Faith Ringgold, Suzanne Lacy, and Judy Chicago insisted on ending the silence surrounding sexual violence and helped const...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:05
DC 1927
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Rockin' in the Days of Confusion
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Independence Day

Bought by KPRG, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WOUB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
S2 E5 Welcome To Vietnam
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 35:44
High Weirdness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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 Life and Times of Frank Hague
From: David Cohen
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The Life and Times of Frank Hague" is a look at 30 years of local and political history in Jersey City, New Jersey, from 1917 to 1947, seen through...

  • Added: May 26, 2019
  • Length: 57:59
By Every Means Necessary: Southern Progressives Are Shaking Up Politics
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Southern activists are shaking things up, with their votes, and their broadband transmitter too. This week, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Rev. Ally...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
BPP 115 | ROGER STONE — BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
Episode 3: Weaponizing False Equivalence
From: Amy Westervelt
Series: Drilled
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As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and prop...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:38
Episode 1: The Bell Labs of Energy
From: Amy Westervelt
Series: Drilled
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It's the 1970s and Exxon Research and Development wants to be the "Bell Labs of Energy."

  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 19:18
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Wilde's facility with words contributes to his undoing.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KKRN, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 17
Brendan Koerner, author of "The Skies Belong To Us"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra Interviews Brendan Koerner about his book "The Skies Belong To Us"

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery's Lash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
The Write Question - Jim Williams - 357
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Wildlife biologist and author, Jim Williams, discusses his book, "Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion." He also reads ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Unvarnished, Unholy Tour of Franklin Avenue
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Tom LaBlanc leads the Unholy Tour along Minneapolis' Franklin Avenue in 2018., Credit: Mike Rivard
Tom LaBlanc joined the American Indian Movement in 1970, just two years after its founding. Today, he's still active, performing politically-inspir...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:52
National Writers Series: Diana Gabaldon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2

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