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Charlie Chaplin on the Radio
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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How the heck do you get a silent film star on the radio?

  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:16:54
Political Junkie Special - Great Moments in Presidential Debates
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...

Bought by WVPE, KGOU, KSUT, WJSU, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 16
Day Four 22:00 (September 14, 2001)
From: Erika McGinty
Caption: Ludlow Street, NYC
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:20
Christopher Trumbo: Growing Up with the Blacklist
From: Donna Granata
Caption: Christopher and Dalton Trumbo, Credit: Focus on the Masters Archive, Christopher Trumbo Papers
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The Trumbo children, Nikola...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:33
Political Junkie Special - Great Moments in Convention History
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin on a journey through political history as we revisit memorable and historic moments from national party conventions...

Bought by WFAE, MPR News Stations, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Red Rosa: Eagle of the Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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It's International Women's Day and who better to celebrate than Rosa Luxemburg? And we also with Rosa Luxemburg a belated happy birthday. She was b...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 56:57
Political Junkie Super Tuesday 2016 Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin as he previews the Super Tuesday contests with journalists and analysts from across the country, and evaluates the ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KSUT, WCQS, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Enough with the "War on Christmas"
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The so-called “War on Christmas” is in full swing. Militant Christians say the well-known evergreen is a Christian symbol for a Christian holiday, ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Rabin is Up For Grabs
From: Israel Story
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For Israelis, especially in recent years, Rabin can take on almost any shape or form. Shai Satran speaks to filmmakers, educators and politicians a...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
Rabin is Dead
From: Israel Story
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Like the JFK assassination, everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. For Aliza Goren, that isn’t so hard – she was one of ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 09:56
General Nathan B Forrest and the Confederate Flag
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The honor of a Confederate hero shrinks in the twilight of 21st century political correctness, as does the rebel flag...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:05:07
This Week in Water for the week ending April 26, 2015
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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"Climate Deniers School the Pope on Global Warming." That and other stories on H2O Radio's weekly news report about water around the globe.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:10
The Treason of Images
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day

  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:26
John Nance Garner
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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John Nance Garner was a powerful politician, who served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and became Speaker of the House. He was also sele...

Bought by KTTZ and KAMU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
Why Does Baltimore Have So Many Confederate Monuments?
From: Stefanie Mavronis
Caption: Baltimore's Lee-Jackson Monument, Credit: Stefanie Mavronis
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 New Kids On The Block
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The protests chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” in the wake of the police killings in Missouri, New York, and elsewhere, will draw...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Making Contact’s 20th Anniversary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A 20th anniversary edition of Making Contact. We hear the story of the program’s creation by volunteers, and how this little radio show became part...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Painter, Ralph Fasanella, a retrospective by curator Leslie Umberger
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ralph Fasanella, (1914-1997), , Credit: Charmian Reading, about 1970, black and white print, American Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Fasanella. © 1970, Estate of Ralph Fasanella
Ralph Fasanella: Labor's Painter

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Playing by the Rules
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Presidents Obama and Johnson at UCI

  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:56
Minnesota's state capitol fire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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On March 2, 1881, Minnesota's state capitol building caught fire while both houses were in session. As smoke filled the chambers, hundreds fled dow...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Barbara Jordan
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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The first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress from the South.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Big Fish, Small Pond; Small Fish, Big Pond: A Citizen's Guide to Conscience
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
At a jazz performance, the lady next to me and I struck up a conversation. During World War II, she, a Czechoslovakian, and her family were exiled ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 4-23-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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In most cases, we know the difference between a good president and a bad one. But how do historians see them? Robert Merry, a longtime journalist w...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WRKF


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 4-16-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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With the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, comparisons between LBJ and Barack Obama are being made. Johnson, who left office in 1969 ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRKF and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Star Spangled Banner
From: Richard Paul
Caption: La Bandera de las Estrellas
There are things you think you know about the Star-Spangled Banner. Most of them are wrong.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WABE


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 2

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