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Building Power Through Media: Radio Kingston and DeRay Mckesson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Our Search for Belonging
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard Ross
It wasn’t that long ago political pundits were expressing concern that our politics were becoming too centrist … too middle of the road.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shaky Ground: Radio Heroes
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Communication is key. This segment of Shaky Ground celebrates the good work of Radio Bio Bio during a massive Chilean earthquake.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
Joe Ward Midnight Rider
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of the live feed we visit with Joe Ward during Boats and Bluegrass of 2016. We discuss performing, the bands achievements and his i...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 36:17
Daring Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappé
Some feel the election of Donald Trump is a signal that people want change. Others see it as a culmination of a decades long effort to destabilize ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
What's the Yams
From: Lauren Barnes
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What does the yams mean to you? In other words, what matters to you?

  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:06
#33 MIW Lisa Chacon - Co-Founder at Impact Hub Oakland
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Lisa Chacon on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, life coach and your show host, this episode of Making it Work, we will chat with one of the co-founders of the innovative w...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 23:18
Getting Lost with Radiolab
From: Hold That Thought
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Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich on what it means to be curious and what it takes to make Radiolab

  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 33:30
The problem with "sounding white"
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 2
Simmer 4: Citizen, Not Consumer
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The fourth Simmer episode features the second part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media," plus a...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: How Can You Tell When Political and Moral Ground Are Too Different From Each Other?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
A Citizen's Guide to the "Fear of Gotcha" in American Political Life
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 06:04
Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Wally Bowen
Documentary on the life and work of media reform activist Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network (MAI...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 47:43
Where I'm From by Shonteia Hunter
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:08
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From: A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 11
JazzStories: Percy Heath
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 15:31
  • Purchases: 5
Portrait of an Artist: Sally Jenkins
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Sally Jenkins, Credit: Rebecca McInroy
Writer Sally Jenkins stopped by the KUT studios to talk about her development as a writer, her father’s influence, and her perspective on the writi...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 14:44
Disaster Movies 11-05
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week on The Score, with Edmund Stone, Disasters.

Bought by KREV-LP, KPVL, WEKU, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Portrait of The Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Geoff Marslett
Austin based filmmaker Geoff Marslett talks about his journey and vision as an artist.

  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 10:20
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Baseball Hall of Fame Broadcaster Dave Niehaus
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A conversation with Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus, newly inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame KRAK

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 1
Look! by Nate Marshall
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:26
This I Believe - Jon Carroll
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Newspaper columnist Jon Carroll believes one of the keys to success comes from accepting your failures.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jan 31, 2007
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 5
Bill Moyers on Media Reform 2007
From: Steve Schultze
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Bill Moyers talks in detail about corporate media and media reform.

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 1