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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
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
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
In September of 2014, Women rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join t...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
The authors of Vancouver drug policy always wanted to end the ‘War on Drugs,’ but they made a compromise. While their fight against prohibition has...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 37:32
This summer, an activist named Ann Livingston signed a lease for a bubble tea cafe in the heart of the busiest drug market in suburban Vancouver. A...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 41:21
When somebody decides that it’s time to kick drugs, who is there to help them? In this explosive expose, we reveal a chronically underfunded drug t...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 43:06
Prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and enforcement—Vancouver’s four pillars. It’s the most progressive drug plan of any city in North America. ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 29:33
The Mount Polley taililngs pond breach happened a couple of weeks after Liz returned from the Action Camp. She speaks to author Arno Kopecky about ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 18:40
New Common Core education standards are surrounded by controversy. Most teachers actually like the Common Core, but they’re worried about all the s...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WESM 91.3 FM, WNIJ, KPIP-LP, Capital Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 12
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 09:18
- Purchases: 1
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 07:53
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 07:47
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’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
This radio documentary highlights the voices of nine men and women who have experienced the workings of the US criminal justice system from the ins...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KVMR, WVAS, KUNM, WORT and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:31
Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible,...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Bobby podcasts via Skype with Ronnie Lee Smith aka Roland A. Duby, stand-up comedian, social media personality, and self-proclaimed healer of cance...
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 29:17
How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
This is a short audio documentary that draws from four interviews to tell the intertwined histories of the 4th and Gill Neighborhood Association, t...
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 21:28
