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Episode One: Speechlessness
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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Our debut episode, devoted to the topic of speechlessness, introduces you to our host Bahjat Abdulwahed, the “Walter Cronkite of Iraq” living as a ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
Radio Silence Trailer
From: Radio Silence
Series: Radio Silence
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Trailer for Radio Silence series

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: :30
TriPod Xtras: Rashauna Johnson on "Slavery's Metropolis"
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Rashauna Johnson (left) and TriPod host Laine Kaplan-Levenson discuss Johnson's award winning book "Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions" at the 2017 Organization of American Historians Conference.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with another edition of TriPod Xtras. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Dartmouth history professor Rashauna Johnso...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 20:17
The Women Who Fought For And Against The ERA: Part II
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Boy holding an Equal Pay for Equal Work sign, ERA March and Jazz Funeral, 1982, Credit: Pat Denton Collection, Newcomb Archives Tulane.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part II of its series on the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
The Women Who Fought For And Against The ERA: Part I
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Pat Denton speaking at the ERA March and Jazz Funeral, New Orleans, 1982. , Credit: Pat Denton Collection / Newcomb Archives, Tulane University
This is the first in a two-part series on the local Second-wave feminist movement and the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 12:14
Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868–1871, Credit: Mathew Brady Studio / National Archive
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:20
New Orleans Tourism Dollars Can Come At A Price
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Image from the Official Gray Line Guides of the Gray Line Motor Tours., Credit: Molly Mitchell
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two in a series on links between history and tourism.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:18
Why New Orleans Leaned Into Tourism
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Poster showing vignette of New Orleans, Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection; Gift of Michael Adler [2008.0038.15]
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a two-part series on tourism, starting with the city’s relationship to the industry, and how we became depen...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:32
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer, Credit: Howard University Library Systems
Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday is Oct 6. She's no longer alive, and may not be as widely known as others in the civil rights movement --- but he...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pete Seeger: Plain and Complicated
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many. Seeger’s ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Peace Greats (Part 1) - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela, and King
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This is a Peace Talks radio special… from the archive of the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. We’re calling it Peace Great...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Iran Belongs to Its Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Veteran journalist Reese Erlich takes us to Iran, where young people, who make up over 40% of the country’s population, are looking toward the futu...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
S1E2 - The Blight Fight
From: ONE EIGHTY
Series: ONE-EIGHTY
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How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 25:43
Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today’s show we’ll hear about the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRIR, KQED and more


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 15
Sounds of Silents
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Credit: Russian Public Library via Wikipedia Commons
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
Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
The (political) lure of Minnehaha Falls
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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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
Prison fellowship aids in recovery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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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
Getting Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Stuck in the Bluff
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Motherhood by Choice not Chance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
How Americans Make Race
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2013
  • Length: 15:45
Modi the Magnificent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Boy in Modi mask
Sandip Roy takes in the theater of Modi's first large scale political rally in New Delhi.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Other 9/11: Part Two
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00