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In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit Dennis del Castillo and Mercedes Lu, two environmental activists from Peru. I met with them in Lima, Per...
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today
- Added: Mar 05, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain That Has Gone Wild
In this Halloween, 1997, edition of Radio Curious, I spoke with Nicols Fox, the...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We like to think of America as a country that, until recently, welcomes immigrants. In reality, that’s never been the case. You may have read abou...
- Added: Dec 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Few moments in American history have held the tension of the early 1970s. The nation was fundamentally divided between the jaded counter-culture an...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Attorney Linda Kremer, a Public Defender in Marin County, California, worked for thirteen months in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, in 1996 and 1997 as Direc...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In Hong Kong Mixtape II, guest producer Him Cheung of Contemporary Musking Hong Kong introduces sound art projects that respond to volatile current...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 34:43
The Greening of America & Opposing the System
The market economy often seems to have many inherent problems. Indeed, a Marxist historical view pre...
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories for Creative Forces
Series: Stories for Creative Forces
Gary Emmert was interviewed by Cherry Woodburn about his military experience. Gary enlisted when he was 18-years-old as a combat engineer, and reti...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 06:37
Democracy in America
In 1831, a 25 year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, trained as a lawyer, and preoccupied with democracy, came to the US t...
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Domingo Sarmiento, a teacher and later President of the Republic of Argentina, spent several years traveling in Europe and the United States in the...
- Added: Aug 21, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We now live in what’s called “The Post-Truth Era.” That means feelings carry more weight than evidence, and alternative facts replace actual facts....
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolutio...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, stands as one of the lead political theorists of American history. His ward...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
My guest in this program was Dr. David Kiersey, the author of a book called “Presidential Temperament.” Dr. Kiersey took the Meyers-Briggs Tempera...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 29:00
America’s Future: Transition into the 21st Century
William Boyer, a Professor Emeritus and the former Chairman of the Department of Educational Fo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
This archive edition of Radio Curious was originally recorded and broadcast in January of 1992 when Radio Curious was called “Government, Politics ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 28:59
Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, was born in 1830. She lived a quiet, non-public life until she was approximately 47 years old and then, for almost...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
New releases from some Night Cafe favorites.
- Added: Mar 10, 2019
- Length: 58:56
The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early womens rights movement in the United States has been greatly overlooked. As one of the countr...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Four Supreme Court cases that define the 1st Amendment in schools.
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 24:45
- Purchases: 2
