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RDD: Dignity and Respect

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Heather Hall, the Director of Advocacy for ABLE, the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. A...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Aug 14, 2017
Length: 06:36
Purchases: 1

#11: Wafa, Missiles, Wheat, and Gardens

From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast

On this episode of Palestinians Podcast we hear from author Wafa Ghnaim about her struggle with being the daughter of immigrants in the United Stat...

Added: Jul 24, 2017
Length: 37:13

RDD: A Conversation with Pete Culp

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on the RDD, Haley meets with Pete Culp, a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors. Baldemar Velasquez nominat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Feb 06, 2017
Length: 06:57
Purchases: 1

87: Kids That Protest

From: The Mortified Podcast

Tales of precocious kids who fight for causes they haven't completely thought out. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, CI Dolphin Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 05, 2017
Length: 23:39
Purchases: 3

RDD: Baldemar and the FLOC (part 2)

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we return to Baldemar Velásquez and the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jan 30, 2017
Length: 06:09
Purchases: 1

RDD: One Matters

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

The Rough Draft Diaries meets with Ken Leslie of 1Matters. 1Matters is a non-profit that works to return domestic autonomy to those without homes. ...

Added: Dec 05, 2016
Length: 06:33

In the Department of Poetic Justice: LIMBO, A Musical Tribute (The Leave It To Beaver version with song and dance)

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Big screen, little truck..., Credit: Susan Cook

In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...

Added: Oct 24, 2016
Length: 02:53

RDD: The Episode about Politics

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

With the voting booths opening in just about one month, The Rough Draft Diaries is taking a look into politics... kind of. We're actually taking a ...

Added: Oct 04, 2016
Length: 06:11

Day Four 22:00 (September 14, 2001)

From: Erika McGinty

Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.

Added: Sep 01, 2016
Length: 09:20

Mortified's Totally Juvenile Election Special

From: The Mortified Podcast

Need relief from all the juvenile antics of campaign season? From PRX's Radiotopia, "MORTIFIED'S TOTALLY JUVENILE ELECTION SPECIAL" is your antidot...

Bought by KPIK-LP, WUTC, KJZZ, Troy Public Radio, KALW and more

Added: Jul 11, 2016
Length: 51:58
Purchases: 26

RDD: The Land Bank

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

Today The Rough Draft Diaries meets Josh Murnen. He is the Vice President & General Counsel of the Lucas County Land Bank. Never heard of a land ba...

Added: Feb 29, 2016
Length: 06:06

Unspun Discusses Guantanamo Diary with Ms. Nancy Hollander, Mohamedou Slahi's Lawyer

From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling

This Saturday on Unspun we are talking with Ms. Nancy Hollander. Ms. Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer and past pr...

Added: Mar 11, 2015
Length: 59:00

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

Conflict

From: Littleglobe

Caption: Students from the United World College, Credit: Sue Bourque

In this episode of Audio Revolution students explore the theme of conflict. The show features stories from all over the world thanks to Youth Media...

Bought by KUNM and KRZA

Added: Jun 06, 2013
Length: 29:31
Purchases: 2

When Elvis Met Nixon

From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional

Caption: Richard Nixon, Sonny West, Jerry Schilling and Elvis Presley, Credit: Photo courtesy of Jerry Schilling

The story of Elvis Presley's visit to the Nixon White House in 1970, told by a man who was there, Elvis' confidante Jerry Schilling.

Bought by PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Feb 21, 2013
Length: 16:15
Purchases: 4

What to Expect When You are Aborting

From: Cassie Wagler

Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."

Added: Dec 29, 2012
Length: 07:51

Here, There and Everywhere: Locally Upholding Human Rights

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...

Added: Dec 08, 2012
Length: 03:28

Ministry of Presence

From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional

Memories of the death house, from a man who sat with 95 condemned men on their last day on earth.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KMUZ, Louisville Public Media, Aspen Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Nov 02, 2012
Length: 25:02
Purchases: 5

San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: A military man finds peace with his sexuality and his Mormon faith

From: KALW

Caption: Olin Thomas and Hugo Salinas, Credit: San Francisco StoryCorps

Olin Thomas grew up Mormon in the deep south, confused by his homosexuality and deeply in the closet, in no small part because of the church's atti...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 11, 2011
Length: 04:00
Purchases: 3

San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: Congresswoman Speier remembers the Jonestown Massacre

From: KALW

Caption: Brian Perkins with San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Credit: Photo courtesy StoryCorps

San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier has lived quite an eventful life. But arguably the most remarkable event happened during her time spent as a ...

Added: Apr 11, 2011
Length: 07:43

Musings on a censored newspaper.

From: Becky Palmstrom

Caption: A woman prays at Shwedagon Pagoda in the centre of Yangon, Myanmar., Credit: Christopher Davy

With the release of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2010, Becky Palmstrom reflects on her time spent working for a...

Bought by PRX Remix