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Political Junkie 9-3-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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If we’re in New Hampshire, there’s no way we can avoid talking 2016 presidential politics. Political Junkie host Ken Rudin's in the studios of New...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, WXXI Rochester, and KUER


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 4-23-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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In most cases, we know the difference between a good president and a bad one. But how do historians see them? Robert Merry, a longtime journalist w...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WRKF


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 4-9-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The Supreme Court's McCutcheon v. FEC decision has eliminated even more restrictions on the amount citizens can contribute to federal political cam...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 4-2-16
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care Act is past, and now comes the fun part: the political recrimination and finger-pointing. Janet Ho...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and WRKF


  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 3-26-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has done his thing in Crimea, and U.S. President Barack Obama has responded with sanctions. Now Congress will hav...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
Zombies take over long beach
From: Victor Figueroa
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They're in our homes, on our computers and TV sets...and even skating in roller derbies. Downtown Long Beach had it's own zombie takeover the weeke...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:19
Political Junkie 3-19-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Scott Brown's likely entry into the New Hampshire Senate race livens up a campaign that Republicans had thought was a lost cause ... though he stil...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 3-12-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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A big victory for the GOP in a special Florida congressional seat highlights this week's Political Junkie. Host Ken Rudin speaks with Adam Smith o...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WRKF


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 2-26-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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What's the matter with Kansas? Well, we learn that Sen. Pat Roberts, seeking a fourth term this year, may not have an actual residence in the stat...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 2-5-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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President Obama told us about the state of the union... now it's time to hear about the state of the states. Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WRKF


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 1-21-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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This week on The Political Junkie, we review President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance with Josh Gerstein of POLITICO. And with the State of the...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 1-14-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Continuing where he left off in 2013, Chris Christie remains the most talked about Republican in the country ... only this time he may not like wha...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 1-7-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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2014 is an election year, with control of the House and Senate at stake. Host Ken Rudin talks to political analyst Stu Rothenberg about what to wa...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Political Junkie 12-17-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Republicans in Congress were prepared to agree to a fairly innocuous budget deal with the Democrats with little fuss. But many conservatives were n...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
The AGU Conference: A Big Week for Space Science
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Chang'e 3 Lander on the Moon, Credit: CTV
The annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union revealed lots of science, some of it astounding. Emily Lakdawalla was there with Advocac...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Political Junkie 12-10-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Nelson Mandela's passing brought this week's Political Junkie show back to the mid-1980s, when Washington was split over how to deal with the South...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 12-3-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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We know for certain that President Obama pardoned a turkey this Thanksgiving. But is Healthcare.gov a turkey as well? Host Ken Rudin speaks with W...

Bought by WRKF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-26-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The word of the week is “nuclear,” and the latest Political Junkie show is all over it. First, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks with Cameron ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-19-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks with Wall Street Journal congressional correspondent Siobhan Hughes about the changing fortunes on Capitol Hill. D...

Bought by WRKF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-12-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Host Ken Rudin welcomes back his old friend from NPR's Talk of the Nation, Neal Conan, to the Political Junkie. They talk about the emergence of Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-6-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The 2013 Elections are over, and though the winners aren't a surprise, some of the insights are. Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks to NPR's Mara Lia...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Conversation, Episode 2
From: David Feldman
Series: Five Guests, Thirty Minutes
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Can you flip your middle finger at a cop? Hunger In America. Climate Change. Two movies you must see. And what's wrong with the DCCC? Weekly series...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:58
Episode 24: Peter Hochstein - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Peter Hochstein (right)
Bobby speaks with Peter Hochstein, a self-described “jack-of-all-trades writer. The two discuss Hochstein’s new book, "HEIRESS STRANGLED IN MOLTEN ...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:25:22
Butterfly in the Typewriter
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The stories behind two giants of Southern Gothic literature.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3