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Art, Anguish & Real Estate

From: Stephen Dale

Ruminations from the rust-belt revival in Canada's Steel Town--Hamilton, Ontario--on whether artists are "the footsoldiers of gentrification."

Added: Mar 16, 2017
Length: 46:04

The Future of Democracy: Sec. Leon Panetta

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

It’s not unusual for a new president to find the adjustment from candidate to leader to be jolting but President Trump’s first week in office has b...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 26, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Right to Work

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 06, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

When Your Hometown Leaves You - Racism

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

When racism changes everything. A late night recitation on that teenage decision of what will be your identity in matter of your friend's racism...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Nov 24, 2016
Length: 05:42
Purchases: 1

13-06: How Close Does It Have to Get?: The Open Space of Democracy, 11/2/2016

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

In her writing and her life, Terry Tempest Williams reflects an expression of something better and higher in each of us. Here she wrestles with th...

Added: Oct 25, 2016
Length: 28:29

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 20, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series

From: New Letters on the Air

Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU

Added: Sep 14, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Reconciliation, a Tale of Two Seas

From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures

Caption: Castles in the sky and in the sand, Bahrain, Credit: Hebah Fisher

It's 2011, and Bahrain is a divided society.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 29, 2016
Length: 42:13
Purchases: 1

The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip: A couple dozen disabled men were liv...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 15, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

It's Even Worse Than It Was

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 11, 2016
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 1

Integration Nation

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue. In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 03, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

We Too Sing America

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

An increase in the acts of terrorism around the globe raises the fear levels in America. Islamophobia in the Bible Belt, and anti-immigrant, anti-M...

Bought by KVSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KCBX

Added: Nov 23, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Cut Loose

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Jul 09, 2015
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 2

Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics

Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.

Added: Dec 18, 2014
Length: 12:13

Uncovering Numismatics

From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore

Professor William Bubelis explains how numismatics, or the study of ancient coins, can reveal unique information about ancient cultures.

Added: Mar 12, 2014
Length: 11:35

Noam Chomsky on labor, oligarchy, the media and Occupy

From: Free Speech Radio News

Professor Chomsky recently invited Free Speech Radio News to his office in Cambridge for an extended interview, conducted by our producer, Catherin...

Added: Jul 06, 2013
Length: 25:33

Food Sleuth Radio, Heather Day Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Good cookbooks nourish us beyond recipes for appetizers through dessert. Case in point: “Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice,” by the Se...

Added: Apr 01, 2013
Length: 28:00

The Compromise of the California State Parks

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

The history and current status of the California State Park System is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Frank Graha...

Bought by KPVL

Added: Aug 22, 2012
Length: 29:02
Purchases: 1

Civil Rights Activist Edward Harden Peeples, V: Born To Be A Racist

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...

Added: Feb 15, 2012
Length: 55:38

99% Invisible #25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 17

99% Invisible #24- The Two Fates of the Old East Portico (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

When the District recovered the old Capitol columns, it forgot about the other fragments that had also once held up the country's icon of democracy.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WTJU and more

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 16

99% Invisible #22- Free Speech Monument (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 19, 2011
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 17

Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh on Jihad, Part 2

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

On this episode of "Culture Clique" we present the second part of our conversation with Sheik Odeh Muhawesh. Last week we heard Mr. Muhawesh's lect...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Dec 08, 2011
Length: 28:47
Purchases: 1

An Interview With Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh on Jihad

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

On this episode of "Culture Clique", Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh lectures about the word "Jihad" in his talk, "Everything You Wanted To Know About Jihad, ...

Bought by KSRQ