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Brexit: What Happens Now?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we talk with Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole and two political activists on opposite sides of the Brexit debate.

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
President Biden on the World Stage
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Michael McFaul, former US Ambassador to Russia, and Jorge Castañeda, former Foreign Minister of Mexico, join co-host Ray Suarez to talk about how t...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
GN_4.26_NazisAgainstNazis
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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A community in Germany fights back an annual nazi parade with pledges to a group that counters hate groups.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Dispatch 369 - Priya's Mask
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: India's Priya and Pakistan's Burka Avenger battle Baba Kaboom in the Priya's Mask comic book.
Priya’s Shakti is a comic and animated film about India’s first female superhero Priya and her flying tiger Sahas. Priya has taken on issues like r...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
626-Lunar Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation of Pisces with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ wh...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
How White Supremacy Fueled the Attack on the Capitol
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, former FBI special agent Michael German explains why the bureau deprioritized the threat posed by white supremacists. Then, historian Ne...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
625-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2020 the asteroid hunting community discovered 2,946 Earth approaching space rocks orbiting our Sun. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, led the ...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 14
Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat has spent her career warning about the stealth strategies authoritarian leaders use to gain power. In her new book, Strong...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dispatch 367 - What Rough Beast
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
The Global Economy After COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we revisit a conversation about the future of the global economy with James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey ...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
New NOT Normal
From: Eric Wayne
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The pandemic has exhausted all of us, but just as we’re letting our guard down it will come to town, just like Santa Claus.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Anand Giridharadas: Are Elites Really Making the World a Better Place?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, compels us to take a deeper look at elite leaders, their i...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Word Cloud of the Year
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Bengali sign that asks visitors to wear masks during the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
In a big shift from tradition the Oxford English Dictionary said 2020 is a “year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one word,” so maybe this ye...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Castrate the rapists?
From: Rahmat Muhammad
Series: The Backstory Podcast
Caption: Nigeria's news, in context
Kaduna State law makers passed a law on 11th September that any person who is convicted of raping a 14-year old, or younger, will be surgically cas...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 32:47
Nigeria's addiction to imports
From: Rahmat Muhammad
Series: The Backstory Podcast
Caption: Nigeria's news, in context
On November 13th, the Federal Government of Nigeria increased the price of petroleum, for the fourth time in five months. Why do petrol prices incr...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 38:35
622-Lonely Vigil
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are lo...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
We Have the Power to Stop World Hunger
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week we’re looking at how to solve food insecurity around the world. We’ll hear from nonprofit leaders working on the frontlines and a doctor ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
621-Morning Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Larry Brilliant and Peter Hotez: Vaccinating Our Way Out of the Pandemic
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Dr. Larry Brilliant, best known for eradicating Smallpox, and Dr. Peter Hotez, who is part of a team developing a low-cost COVID vaccine for global...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Feluda
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A book celebrating 50 years of Feluda, Credit: Sandip Roy
The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Redefining Latino Identity
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Join co-host Ray Suarez and VICE's Paola Ramos for a conversation on how communities from New York to Texas and California are defining the controv...

Bought by Classic107.3, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Power of a Poem
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Never underestimate the power of a poem.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
619-Apophis Campaign
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
What Biden Can Do to Secure Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we discuss climate policy with former California Governor Jerry Brown, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and former Colombian pres...

Bought by Classic107.3, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Emperor's Clothes
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip at the Grand Hotel in Nainital.
India struggles with its image in the larger world, but so should America reconsider hers.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:00

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