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Top of Mind - Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage? — Museums, Repatriation, and Appropriation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
764: African Legends: Remembering Fela, 11/2/2023
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
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In this program, we hear from current day Nigerians from multiple generations and genres—fuji, juju, hip-hop, Afrobeats, and highlife - on how they...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Colorado, Minnesota & Michigan Courts Consider “Insurrection Act” Cases Attempting to Keep Trump Off the Ballot
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Colorado, Minnesota & Michigan Courts Consider “Insurrection Act” Cases Attempting to Keep Trump Off the Ballot

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
254: Toward a More Perfect Union: Unleashing the Promise in Us All, 11/1/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Angela Glover Blackwell, Credit: Alex Akamine
In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial de...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
The World's First Constitution
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORS supporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly look at the world's...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 09:20
National Writers Series: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Benjamin Busch talks with journalists Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson about their book "American Gun."

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:15
  • Purchases: 1
833: Being Body Conscious / 834: The Hidden Geometry Of Everything, 9/30/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Delhi Goes G20
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The historic Qutb Minar ‘au natural’ and done up for the G-20 summit in Delhi. , Credit: Image by Sandip Roy and sourced from Instagram.
 Joe Biden and other world leaders landed in Delhi to a grand multicolored G-20 welcome. But the beautification of the city left some of its reside...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Afghan Women: ‘We Are Not Fragile’
From: The Story Exchange
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What do you think when you hear ‘Afghan Woman’? In this special podcast, The Story Exchange speaks to women who fled Afghanistan in the summer of 2...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 37:36
The Many Indias (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Many Indias (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, KVSC, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Many Indias (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Many Indias (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As India celebrates 76 years of independence - Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has drawn criticism for promoting a kind of hindu nationalism that's ...

Bought by WUGA (part of GPB), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WABE, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Caption: Homemade masks made by the Auntie Sewing Squad Alt-text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat , Credit: Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
On today's show, we'll revisit the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by looking at two alternative supply chains for masks during the fallout fro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2024 is an interesting election year, but still not as raucous as 1948.. All the columnists and commentators who were polled agreed Thomas Dewey w...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
Frances Goldin, Rabble Rousers & A NYC Housing Struggle Wins (August 9, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new film tells how New Yorkers, led by Frances Goldin, won a 50-year housing struggle against developer Robert Moses.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WNYE, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Anita Cameron & Keith Jones on The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
Booktalk: CNN Jake Tapper’s “All The Demons Are Here” (#3 in a series)
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jake Tapper regularly interviews world leaders and other newsmakers, but he also brings his knowledge of politics and the past to his political thr...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 10:25
Entangling Alliances (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions between the United States and Russia nearly led to nuclear disaster. So what prevented the unthinkab...

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Entangling Alliances (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions between the United States and Russia nearly led to nuclear disaster. So what prevented the unthinkab...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KXCV, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 5
Entangling Alliances (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions between the United States and Russia nearly led to nuclear disaster. So what prevented the unthinkab...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Mikey Weinstein – "Evangelical Christianity and the United States Air Force Academy"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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There are concerns that evangelical Christianity is close to being officially sanctioned at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Should Prosecutors Pursue Minor Crimes?
From: Open to Debate
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In the US, misdemeanors count for 80% of cases filed annually, but district attorneys around the country are implementing policies stating they’ll ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2

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