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Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy

Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Jul 23, 2015
Length: 06:07
Purchases: 1

Water Pressure 3: Water Isn't Just Running Out In California

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Caption: Swansea Water Manager Robert Marquis

Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.

Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Jul 23, 2015
Length: 06:31
Purchases: 3

Water Pressure 2: When It Rains, It Floods -- and Pollutes

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Our progress on cleaning up waterways has stalled, and scientists are blaming... everyone.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Jul 23, 2015
Length: 05:27
Purchases: 2

Water Pressure 1: New England Stole California's Snow

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.

Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Jul 23, 2015
Length: 08:13
Purchases: 2

Cannabis Radio News #51

From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show

In this special edition of the Cannabis Radio News host Brian Bahouth visits an end of prohibition celebration on the Burnside Bridge in Portland O...

Bought by KVMR

Added: Jul 01, 2015
Length: 05:00
Purchases: 1

Radio Retrospective: The March of Time

From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective

The 1940s pre-movie newsreel "The March of Time" reenacted news events using actors. Henry Luce called it "fakery in allegiance to the truth." The ...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 25, 2014
Length: 05:20
Purchases: 3

Getting Out

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

Bought by WXDU

Added: Jul 25, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

You’ll Be Mine: Bringing Musical Tourism To West Memphis

From: Eleanor Boudreau

Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

Added: May 15, 2013
Length: 03:58

Roots Thinning In Rural America

From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America

Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.

A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 19, 2013
Length: 03:54
Purchases: 2

The Python Challenge

From: casey schelhorn

Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix

Added: Mar 09, 2013
Length: 15:34
Purchases: 2

Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools

Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Nov 14, 2012
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 4

Testing Teachers

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Teacher Joe Curtis working with a student at Hardy Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Credit: Emily Hanford

Kids need good teachers. It’s something people know instinctively. But experts disagree over how to measure teacher quality. (8/26/2010)

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, KMUZ, WTIP and more

Added: Mar 17, 2011
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 10

Phelps-a-thons: Turning hate into cash

From: Katherine Perry

Caption: Chris Mason, Phelps-a-thon founder at a fundraiser outside the Boston Center for the Arts

The Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas is headed up by the notorious Reverend Fred Phelps, and is known chiefly for its incendiary rhetoric...

Bought by PRX Remix