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It was November 9, 2016. Amy was worried about the new political landscape. But some unusual encounters at work gave her fresh perspective.
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, and KRZA
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 11:36
- Purchases: 3
Can a song sway a vote? Learn about the use of campaign music throughout the history of American Presidential campaigns since George Washington thr...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 19:19
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...
- Added: Jul 02, 2016
- Length: 17:13
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 02:38:59
When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 14:42
- Purchases: 3
Jay Roach talks fear-based manipulation, Trumbo’s complex personality, and Louis C.K.’s rumpled collar,
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 15:35
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 15:03
Highlights of the top Republicans debating in the first contest for the 2016 nomination, with typically apolitical commentary by Rob MacClanahan
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 03:01:45
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
Taking place mostly in the Vatican and the tiny town that surrounds it, this fast moving, thoughtful novel features two brothers who are priests, t...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 2
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
The Old Mint was the only financial institution still operational following the 1906 earthquake and fire. At one time, it held a third of the natio...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:08
Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 26:46
- Purchases: 2
To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 25:00
- Purchases: 3
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
California seems to be getting it from both sides. The state is in a serious drought at the same time coastal areas are studying ways to avoid bein...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:46
The National Mall has long been considered "America's front yard." But for years, America's front yard has looked more like an abandoned lot with w...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:49
J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 4
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
