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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
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Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 24, 2015
  • Length: 32:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Recreational pot has earned the state of Colorado $53 million dollars in tax revenue. All on a drug that, according to federal law is still illegal...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 23:27
  • Purchases: 1
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In Episode 19 of Behind The Thread, we go inside the 7-year energy crisis that has beleaguered Pakistan's vital textile industry and see what is be...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 46:30
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The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 23:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Life of the Law and Destination DIY team up to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy. How are cities grappling with these inc...

Bought by KMUZ and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 20:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Political amnesia comes on when political polarization begins as it has with President Obama’s recent executive order about immigration. So, Presi...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Since its beginning in 1991, the Seattle Hempfest has become an international rallying point for marijuana legalization advocates, and never more s...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
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On the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin chats with John Dean, former White House counsel ...

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


  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Stephen Downing is a retired LAPD Deputy Chief and an executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP. He spoke with CRN’s B...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:01
Caption: The NGO "Road Safety Russia" has been using photos like this to promote child car seat use., Credit: Road Safety Russia
A lot of people die on Russian roads. But things are getting better thanks to better enforcement and a clever public service ad campaign.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
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
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
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
Caption: Jeremy Scahill, San Francisco, CA 5/9/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks cover-ups, blow-back, and fun & games in Saddam’s Iraq.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:43
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:07
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Previously on Art Beat we featured our interview with Jim Tittle, conducted during the Frozen River Film Festival. Jim started out as a photographe...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 40:46
  • Purchases: 1
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A rundown of important military and veterans issues.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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A rundown of military and veteran news of interest nationally

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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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
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
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ARAPAHOE COUNTRY, Colo. - Tents and makeshift stores selling holidays goods have popped up throughout Colorado in the past few weeks leading up to ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
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LOS ANGELES - California is ramping up efforts to get the uninsured, insured. Starting in 2014, the state will receive $15 billion a year to expand...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:24