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The Raga Role: On Carnatic Music and Caste
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: MS Subbulakshmi at the 1966 UN General Assembly
We explore the evolution of what we might call the modernism of the classical in South Indian music and the ways the production of this form of mus...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Sheikh Jarrah + NATO
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:08
Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to col...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
THE BOYS WHO SAID NO! -- Judith Ehrlich Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Judith Ehrlich talks learning lessons, fair use, and the power of words.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 21:19
70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Talman Anderson votes in the Illinois presidential preference primary from the Cook County Jail, Credit: Photo by Pamela Kirkland
A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail wa...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020 Election Polling: The Science & Psychology of Polls in a Partisan Age
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Dr. Andrew Smith UNH Survey Center
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season? It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 1
United States Post Office
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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It’s the government on your doorstep — the only Executive Branch agency that visits every home in the country on a regular basis. So how does the U...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 23:52
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Presidential Debates (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUWM, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13
Marking Revolution: Malcolm X and Black-Mindedness
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Malcolm X photographs Muhammad Ali after his victory over Sonny Liston in 1964. (Photo: Bob Gomel/CC)
Central to the political philosophy of Malcolm X is police brutality – this unaccountable violence undermines any claim that might be made to sugge...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Convention History (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin on a journey through political history as we revisit memorable and historic moments from national party conventions...

Bought by WVPE, Vermont Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Forty Million Missing: America’s Independent Voters and Voices
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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By most measures, the US has over 40 million independent or unaffiliated voters representing a third or more of the electorate. Yet despite large a...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 24:05
Front Lines of Partisanship with Dr Charles Wheelan
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In Episode 2, our guests include a former Republican speechwriter, a former centrist Democratic congressional candidate, a former Economist Magazin...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 23:18
Musical Manifesto vs. Contested Monument
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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We hear from artist william cordova about the 2014 documentary "silent parade," featuring the New Orleans band, The Soul Rebels, who faced off Robe...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 19:45
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

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  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Prospero’s Roaring War: The Rough Magic of Shakespeare’s Tempest
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Response: Reimagining Paradise in an Age of Disruption
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
20-06 Great Music in Times of Turmoil: Dowland, Byrd, Romero, Brouwer, Daugherty. Interviews: Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing the lute
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features great music that was created during times of political turmoil from the 16th Century to 20t...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 50
THE CAVE -- Feras Fayyad Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Feras Fayyad, San Francisco, CA 10/10/2019, Credit: Andrea Chase
Feras Fayyad talks talks shaping character, invisible moments, and being extraordinary.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 26:11
KNIVES OUT -- Rian Johnson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rian Johnson, San Francisco, CA 11/11/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rian Johnson talks being human, toying with an audience, and how the late, great Ricky Jay makes a cameo.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 13:18