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Presenting: Overcoming Extremism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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This week we’re sharing a new podcast series called "Overcoming Extremism" produced by the Anti-Defamation League and hosted by former Charlottesvi...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
You Don’t Understand the 2nd Amendment
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan Hennessey
There’s a free, feature length documentary available online. Its purpose is to expose what the Founders of the American Constitution actually sai...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Disability Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, ADAPT activists have made headlines for protests that helped stop the ACA repeal. Ruth Osorio (Old Dominion University) says their...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
Disability Justice (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, ADAPT activists have made headlines for protests that helped stop the ACA repeal. Ruth Osorio (Old Dominion University) says their...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 13
Disability Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In recent years, ADAPT activists have made headlines for protests that helped stop the ACA repeal. Ruth Osorio (Old Dominion University) says their...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Three Kings: Agents of Radical Christianity
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Resolving Conflict, “Town Meeting” Style
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years l...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reel Discovery: The Report
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin digs for the truth with Adam Driver in The Report.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, WOUB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doris Kearns Goodwin
What makes a great leader? This week on Sea Change Radio, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fault Lines in the Constitution revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Founding Fathers images
They are an unexpected husband and wife team: the Levinson’s. Sanford is a constitutional scholar. Cynthia is an award-winning author of children’...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mortal Republic
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
Citizens of ancient Rome willingly sacrificed their freedom for autocracy. When people are convince they have a lot to fear, it’s easier for a powe...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discover: Vice
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin explores the life and career of former Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice.

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
For Love of Money: Libertarian Opportunists
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katya Cengel
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Kirchick
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Learning From a Master
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard J. Berstein
She didn’t like being called a philosopher, but that is how she’s recognized. And, as far as philosophy professor Richard J. Bernstein is concerned...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Luis Buñuel's The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:31
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Serhii Plokhy
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
18-29 When Politics and Music Collide! Music from Elizabeth's England, Franco's Spain, Castro's Cuba/Interviews: Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing a lute
Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife ...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 40
A Targeted Divide: Gunning Down the Bill of Rights
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Michigan Liberty Militia Constitutional Enforcement rally Capitol Lansing MI March 24 2018., Credit: Photo by Theresa Rosado.
Today begins a series of three programs on guns in the USA: A Targeted Divide. Our first show is “Gunning Down the Bill of Rights,” how the 2nd Ame...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Legacy of C.L.R. James
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the c...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:05
Taking Down the Confederacy - One Monument At A Time
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many are protesting Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's proclaiming April as Confederate Heritage Month, the last state banner to feature confederate ic...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Delta Epiphany
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Meacham
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1