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HUMANKIND: Universal Health Care
From: Humankind
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A Cambridge couple, both MDs and Harvard Medical faculty, have devoted their lives to researching and advocating universal health care. Provocative.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Iowa Public Radio, and WCQS


  • Added: Sep 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 3
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WRPI, KWIT, WRNC-LP, WPTC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Waiting Game
From: Sudan Radio Project
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Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Show Me The Way
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt, Credit: Miles Eddy
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
West Wing Moment
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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William's been a political junkie since he was a preteen.

Bought by WMPG, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, and PRX Election Podcast


  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 3
Active Voice Radio 6-25-08: Terry Aladjem - The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Terry Aladjem of Harvard University discusses his new book that explores the psychology and philosophy of Vengence in America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Iraqi Translators Risk Everything
From: Adam Allington
Series: Front Line: Missouri Soldiers in Iraq
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Interview with Iraqi translator working for U.S. military

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
Homelessness in San Francisco
From: Selwyn-Lloyd McPherson
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A portrait of homelessness in the city of San Francisco

  • Added: Nov 28, 2007
  • Length: 16:43
Red Crystal Palace ~ 5: Conclusion
From: Fereshteh Toosi
Series: Red Crystal Palace
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RED CRYSTAL PALACE is a mobile tent with a crystal ball inside, operated by a nurse seeking predictions about the future from people on the street.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
Eminent Domain in Culver City, California
From: David Kates
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A 70-year-old Southern California business is in jeopardy of being taken by eminent domain.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:07
Light Rail in Cheviot Hills (Los Angeles, California)
From: David Kates
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David Kates surveys West Los Angeles residents about whether a light rail line should be routed through a wealthy neighborhood.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
How to Help Heal the Wounds from the Bush Administration
From: Robert Abele
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Some simple steps to heal the country

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:15
Muslim college students discuss today's social interactions with peers
From: Next Generation Radio
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Voices of Muslim students in the DC area and how they are getting intersting questions these days

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Apr 07, 2007
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Young & Exonerated
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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Shareef Cousin was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for over a decade.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KTNA


  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3
Daryl Davis - Klan - Destine Relationships - Part One
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The quest for understanding between peoples is always challenging. But that challenge can be extremely intense, even dangerous, when an African-Am...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2007
  • Length: 28:47
Gore Nomination for Nobel Prize Poetic Justice
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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Nobel Committee did much better than the Supreme Court re: Al Gore

  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 02:41
CL 2006 Rebecca Rimel "to those whom much is given."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Rebecca Rimel of the Pew Charitable trusts talks about America's image abroad and political apathy at home.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
News Dub - South Dakota's Abortion Law
From: Matthew Fidler
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Street Opinions on SD's new Abortion Law

  • Added: Mar 16, 2006
  • Length: 01:28
I am Not Homeless
From: Barrett Wolf
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Poem by Highway Poet J. Barrett Wolf

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Faceless – Dire Times for Illegal Immigrants in the Netherlands
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Due to economic recession and strict government policy the illegal immigrants face dire times in the Netherlands.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 11, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Nationalism and Patriotism (#129)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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How is our nation motivated or hindered in its actions when motivated by one versus the other?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KWCW


  • Added: Sep 14, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Day After
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wondering 'what if' on the day after the election--November 2004

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
Democracy
From: Brian Wright
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A Lot of What Ails Us Can Be Likened to Cancer.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 03:09
End of a Red-Hunter's Crusade: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A review of famed Communist-chaser Senator Joseph McCarthy's legacy a half-century past his condemnation by Congress.

Bought by Listenwise, KTNA, and 2SER FM 107.3


  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Hollands' Black Page
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Former dutch veterans of the colonial conflict in Indonesia talk of their guilty past and of atonement.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2004
  • Length: 29:02