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Iran and Nuclear Proliferation: Update with Joseph Cirincione
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Ethics in Security Bulletin
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Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, discusses the status and prospects for the ongoing P5+1 talks in Vienna on Iran's nuclear pr...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 33:06
Crime Novelist and Investigative Reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan
From: New Letters on the Air
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Acclaimed crime fiction writer and Emmy-winning investigative reporter, Hank Phillippi Ryan reads from her Mary Higgins Clark award-winning novel, ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CRACK: The Drug That Consumed the Nation's Capital
From: Kellen Quigley
Caption: Mayor Marion Barry
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 51:30
Is there any hope for the "Middle Way?"
From: KALW
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The controversy over Tibetan independence won't likely be over anytime soon, but is the Middle Way, promoted by the Dalai Lama himself, any way to ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Rebuilding After Fire
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Friday morning Sept 13 2013 became a day of history for downtown Winona. Unfortunately, this was due to a fire that spread and damaged three buildi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 20:48
  • Purchases: 1
Murder & Memory in a New England Village: The Story of Orville Gibson
From: William Dahlberg
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On New Years Eve day of 1957, Orville Gibson, a farmer in Newbury, Vermont went out to milk his cows. He was never seen alive again. The mystery of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 30:27
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: Pants On Fire
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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For nearly a century we’ve been trying to read someone’s truthfulness by the way they act — through machine, or our own intuition. The police, the ...

Bought by ABC, KPIK-LP, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 4
Skyway: The True Story Of Tampa's Signature Bridge pn Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:17
  • Purchases: 1
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
Bean's Cafe
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Provides meals, day shelter and support services in Anchorage, Alaska

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:21
Sex, drugs and classical music in Town Square Park
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What's the answer?

  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:25
StoryCorps: Glenda and Larry Rike
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Glenda Rike tells her son, Larry, how his father, Aubrey Rike, came to be one of the few present when President John F. Kennedy received his last r...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 4
Guest Dr. Zuhdi Jasser on Understanding the World 09-26-13
From: David Kaufman
Series: Understanding the World
Caption: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
45 minute interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. We discussed Syria, Egypt, the Arab Awakening, Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood and so much more.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:01:33
Managed Car: We Are Cancelling Your Insurance Policy Effective Today
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: New Managed car regulations require us to cover more items than we did before and our company has decided that is Unaffordable... we are cancelling your policy.", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
Cory Booker's First Meeting with President Obama as Senator
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: Now Senator Cory Booker
Short interview with former Newark Mayor now Senator from New Jersey and his first days in Office in Washington

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
WorldCanvass: The Rise of Chinese Public Opinion (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Leading scholars from the field of Chinese public opinion research discuss the influence of public opinion on political reform, political trust, an...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 24:08
A Congressional Guide to Ending Gridlock
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Having survived the most recent episode of Gridlock by the skin of the Nation's teeth, we beyond the Beltway need to put our collective relational...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:26
Two Guys On Your Head: Locus of Control
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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So how do we define our Locus of Control? Essentially, it is our positioning of ourselves within our perception of the world and the way that we p...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
From a pretty big project to an enormous one
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The view driving across the $6.4 billion bridge, Credit: Isabel Angell
A brief history of San Francisco's $6.4 billion bridge

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 11:12
99% Invisible #80- An Architect's Code (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Some architects say there are just some buildings that should never have been built: buildings that violate human rights by design.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 19
99% Invisible #88- The Broadcast Clock
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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What makes public radio tick.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 14:53
  • Purchases: 6
Syria and Society: Two Takes
From: War News Radio
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War and violence never exist in a vacuum. Intrastate conflict often has far-reaching effects that extend outside a nation’s borders. War News Radio...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1
Bat-Eared Foxes Share Parental Duties - TEAMWORK!
From: Scott Unger
Series: Experimental Podcast
Caption: Bat-eared foxes
Bat-Eared Foxes have a unique method of raising their pups - teamwork...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:53
Terrifying Dolphin SEX!
From: Scott Unger
Series: Experimental Podcast
Caption: Bottle Nosed Dolphin
Dolphin sexual habits are terrifying - 14 cases of human death by dolphin rape each year in the US!

  • Added: Sep 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
Remembering Sushmita
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sushmita Memorial, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sushmita Banerjee pled a full life. Full of danger, trying to make a difference in this world. This week Sandip Roy remembers her legacy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1

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