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2020 Election Polling: The Science & Psychology of Polls in a Partisan Age
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Dr. Andrew Smith UNH Survey Center
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season? It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 1
Forty Million Missing: America’s Independent Voters and Voices
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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By most measures, the US has over 40 million independent or unaffiliated voters representing a third or more of the electorate. Yet despite large a...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 24:05
Episode 109: Homewrecker
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 23:08
Episode 102: Ride-Along
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:50
Making an American Folk Song: Children, Go Where I Send Thee
From: Peter Winne
Caption: The Fairfield Four at home in Tennessee
The ancient origins of an American gospel classic,"Children, Go Where I Send Thee," are told through archival recordings from The Library of Congre...

Bought by WUTC


  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 38:49
  • Purchases: 1
Panic, Mayhem, Hysteria – War of the Worlds
From: Roger McDonough
Caption: Orson Welles news conference, 1938, Credit: WikiCommons
On October 30th, 1938, American radio audiences - believing that a Martian invasion was underway - went absolutely nuts. Panicked masses fled to th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Retrospective: The Woman Behind "Let's Pretend"
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Nila Mack
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 4
Radio Retrospective: George Burns Loves Gracie Allen
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: George Burns and Gracie Allen
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:51
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Retrospective: Radio at War
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Frank Sinatra being interview during World War II, Credit: Wikipedia
Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Retrospective: Rod Serling
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Rod Serling, Credit: Wikipedia
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...

Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 5
Radio Retrospective: The First Woman of Sound Effects
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Ora Nichols (left) and the CBS Sound Effects Team, Credit: Wikipedia
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 3
Dance Until the World Ends
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
"The Making of the War of the Worlds Broadcast"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Documentaries
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Interviews with John Houseman and Howard Koch highlight this 1988 documentary, reissued for the 70th anniversary of the infamous Orson Welles radio...

Bought by KHNS, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 14
The Day the Music Died - web radio in peril
From: Eric Klein
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on July 15th radio over the internet is going to undergo a BIG change

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2007
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 2
Buzz, Bands and the Biz: Why SXSW Matters
From: KUT
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How a Regional Music Conference Became a International Phenomenon

Bought by WMNF, KTNA, WXPN, NPR Illinois, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2007
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 5