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Role of Anarcho-Pacifism in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Perhaps, you’ve heard of “Pacifism” but have you heard of “Anarcho Pacifism.” What’s the difference between the two? On this edition of Peace Talk...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Thomas Paine’s Lost Body
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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In the first episode of our new season, Devin and Lauren look to a William G. Pomeroy marker in Westchester County to learn about American patriot ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)
This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Civics 101: The Politics of the Olympics
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The Olympics are about more than feats of athletic glory - they are the multi-billion dollar stage on which politics and sport collide.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Oregon Public Broadcasting, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:34
  • Purchases: 9
How Easy Is It to Commit Fraud in an Election?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589
This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-03: The Year In Jazz, 1963: A Man’s Dream, A Nation’s Nightmare, 1/10/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing unease and the youthful vitality...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
647: Whose Land Is It? / 648: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?, 12/18/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
AOC & Noam Chomsky: Inter-Generational Meeting of Minds (Re-Air week of 12/15/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KVNF and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Indigenous organizers mark 52 years since the Alcatraz occupation — with the interior secretary
From: KSFP
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The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Travels with George. In Search of Washington and His Legacy”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Bestselling, award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick's "Travels with George" is a blended account of two road trips separated by about 230 year...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 08:47
AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
David Hill discusses "The Vapors"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:16
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Liberty & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Liberty  & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 32:00
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Norman Corwin's Between Americans 2021
From: Richard Fish
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The last script worked on by the Grand Master of American Radio Theatre could not be more timely. A conversation - not a lecture - among American C...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 42:15
Constitution Day Special: The Constitution & The Bill of Rights
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important docum...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WITF, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 5
The Wide World of Video Games (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

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


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Wide World of Video Games (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, KEDT and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Wide World of Video Games (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

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


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Wide World of Video Games (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

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


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3

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