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Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Rural Aging Population
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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The phenomenon of an aging population is reshaping the demographic landscape globally, with its impact being profoundly felt in rural areas. Unlike...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2024
  • Length: 04:26
Special Report - Power Grids Under Attack: The Threat is Domestic Terrorism – Not Drag Artists
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Last December, an attack on two electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina left 45,000 households and businesses without power for up t...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Cell Phones and Brain Cancer with Ellen Marks
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
Alternatives to War
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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With renewed violent clashes in the Middle East, we visit the remarkable Seeds of Peace summer camp near Portland, Maine, where Israeli and Arab te...

Bought by WUWM, WUOT 91.9 FM, Spokane Public Radio, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Laguna Honda Hospital Must Self-Destruct in Order to Survive
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Laguna Honda Hospital's certification is under review, and doctors say this was preventable. Part 2.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
While SF Fought COVID, HIV Prevention Efforts Stalled
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, resources were diverted from HIV prevention to battle the new health threat. "Civic" talks to doctors about how that ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
What Research Says About a Post-Roe World
From: Tradeoffs
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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 17:37
Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Answering the Call, Part 2: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Episode 150: 76th and Yates
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he w...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 31:41
CBC S 1 E 2: Detroit- A Day in District Five
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 2
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
Sampler for A SUDDEN LOSS - Memorial Day Tribute to Those Lost to COVID-19
From: Paul Ingles
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
Ep 1: Fighting the opioid epidemic with Suboxone and telemedicine
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: A patient video conferencing with a medical provider at Ideal Option the clinic in Everett, WA., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
Opposing Children's Detention Centers - Marina from the Rio Grande Valley
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
Political Junkie Special - Remembering John McCain
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Ken Rudin hosts a special reflection on John McCain's life and legacy, featuring interviews with several of McCain's friends and colleagues.

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, RadioFreePalmer, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
All Families Belong Together: Immigration & Incarceration
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Families torn apart at the border and through our prison system. Can we use this moment of public awareness to create change? Emani Davis, a long-s...

Bought by KDNK and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Trouble: Doppelganger
From: WBEZ
Caption: Prison photos of Ricky Amos (left), and the wrongfully incarcerated Richard Jones (right)
Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seventeen years in, he discovers he has a look-alike, with the same...

Bought by KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KUNM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 16:26
Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:32