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AOC & Noam Chomsky: Inter-Generational Meeting of Minds (Re-Air week of 12/15/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KVNF and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
New Jersey v T.L.O.
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Do you have a right to privacy while in school?

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 15:00
Right to Privacy: Griswold v Connecticut
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The case that kicked the government out of our bedrooms.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:53
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Columnist
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The story of one of America’s most widely-read journalists, whose relationships in Washington were tinged by an unflappable arrogance.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KMUN, KWMR, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 27
His Royal Highness Prince Emanuele Filiberto: True Moments of Happiness
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: His Royal Highness Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Credit: Shefik
Happiness - Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice is an Italian television personality, a member of the House of Savoy and the son and heir...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
467: Doctors Give Us Hope / 468: Facing Hate, 3/28/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Doctors Give Us Hope" - We set up mics in Anne's kitchen for a show dedicated to the people getting us through this. The doctors, nurses...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Commentary, F-Word: Covid-19: Our Health Crisis is born of Bigotry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. (00:03:30) "A bridge is only as strong as its weakes...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
A New World Begins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: A New World Begins, Credit: jacket cover by Chin-Yee Kai
A book about the French Revolution. OK, you may be thinking, there’s nothing new to learn, however, not only has new revelations come to light in t...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Roses in December (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...

Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 11
Roses in December (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Why We Believe What We Believe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Why do people believe weird things? That’s what Jason Hart wants to find out. He delves into the psychology behind ghost encounters, anti-vaccine ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
National Writers Series: Karl Marlantes
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Novelist Karl Marlantes, whose latest book is "Deep River," talks with Benjamin Busch.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Douglas Brinkley
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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John Bacon talks with author and historian Douglas Brinkley.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of the Richard C. Wilson St. Cloud Community Outpost
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits and then revisits the Rich...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:54
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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U.S. troops turned to popular music as a way of coping with the war in Vietnam. In this sound-rich show, the authors of “We Gotta Get Out of thi...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, WVAS, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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The Fall of Saigon marked the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. This captivating NEH-funded documentary shares st...

Bought by WFAE, WPCA-LP, WCPN, Prairie Public, KVNF and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 16
How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Making Sense of Klansville
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:45
The Dispossessed, Part 8; People Without a Nation, Chapter 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Chickahominy Pow Wow
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 27:52
Pilgrimage (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WFHB, WNMU-FM, KMUN, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
AN OUTRAGE: REFLECTIONS ON RACISM, PAST & PRESENT (HALF)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-“An Outrage’ is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. From the end of the Civil War well into the middle of the twentieth centu...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Job Talk Episode 58
From: Paul Russell
Caption: http://jobtalkradio.org, Credit: Job Talk LLC
A check-in with one of our most popular interviews, Jeff Clarke. Historian, actor and host of Public Broadcasting’s Saving Grace. Learn how he turn...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 18:15
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation
From: John Shuck
Series: Beloved Community
Caption: Hugh Turley, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
Heart failure, accident, or murder? John Shuck interviews Hugh Turley about the mysterious death of Thomas Merton.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 57:01