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Engaging, inspiring and informational clips from episodes featured on Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resoluti...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUOW, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 7
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Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kurt Eichenwald
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
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An out-of-the-box teaching approach seeks to engage students through community members that come in to teach about specific topics of expertise.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 07:28
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Carol Paine-McGovern and Shatawn Brigham, Kent School Services Network.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:09
Caption: jacket Cover, Credit: design by Kirk DouPonce
Hugh Sinclair traveled to several continents while working for numerous banks, agencies and institutions, and saw microfinance from the ground up. ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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WRVG's Chuck Harris looks into how college students spend their precious sleep time.

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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A reissue of my in-depth interview with the legendary broadcast journalist about his life and times...and ours...in which he talks about many of th...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 45:29
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Angela Maria Kelley, of the Center for American Progress, talks frankly about the difficult practical and ethical questions surrounding U.S. immigr...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 20:40
Caption: Crockett Grabbe, Credit: Lisa Scheps
Crockett has a PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech and was a research scientist at the University of Iowa for almost 30 years. In his professional ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 25:27
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A journalist for thirty-five years, Mark Seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
Caption: Camera on head, Laura Milkins walks across Tucson, AZ, Credit: Tom Willette
Laura Milkins is walking from Tucson, Arizona to Grand Rapids, Michigan—with a streaming webcam attached to her head. Milkins is a performance art...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Underground news from Santa Cruz, CA. Played on On What Grounds on KZSC, 88.1fm.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 43:59

  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
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In this edition of Radio Curious, the first in a series about local community radio around the world, we visit with Fadi Abuzada, a community radio...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Walter Breuning just days before his 114th birthday, Credit: Emilie Ritter
Walter Breuning is believed to be the world's oldest man. He was born in 1896...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2010
  • Length: 04:56
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A rare generational discussion on the Vietnam War

  • Added: Aug 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: A new member of the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad on June 14th, 2010., Credit: Photo courtesy of AP.
From "Unfinished Business" 8/6/2010: War News Radio reports on why Iraq has still not been able to produce a government 5 months after the national...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:23
Caption: A new member of the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad on June 14th, 2010., Credit: Phote courtesy of AP.
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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From "Gridlock" (6/25/10): War News Radio talks to a marine sniper who has fought in the Iraq War.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 06:57
Caption: Iraqi president Jalal Talabani speaking to the press., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An Iraqi holds up his non-functioning phone., Credit: Associated Press
From Signal Interrupted, on April 30, 2010. War News Radio reports on a new device that's interrupting communications in Iraq.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 06:31
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An interview with one of the 4 surviving federal medical marijuana patients, Irvin Rosenfeld. His new book, My Medicine, looks back at a lifetime o...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the continuing saga of marijuana politics in Mendocino County we visit with Sheriff Tom Allman to talk about what has happened since our last vi...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00